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Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations..

Counterview :: Counterview (n.) A position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition; contrast.

Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane..

Countermand :: Countermand (v. t.) To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods..

Countermove :: Countermove () Alt. of Countermovemen.

Forging :: Forging (n.) The act of counterfeiting.

Alto :: Alto (n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor..

Persevere :: Persevere (v. i.) To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken..

Feign :: Feign (v. t.) To represent by a false appearance of; to pretend; to counterfeit; as, to feign a sickness..

Countertime :: Countertime (n.) The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse..

Reaction :: Reaction (n.) Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.

Belie :: Belie (n.) To mimic; to counterfeit.

Forgery :: Forgery (n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited..

Equivalence :: Equivalence (v. t.) To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.

Counterdraw :: Counterdraw (v. t.) To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance..

Countervailed :: Countervailed (imp. & p. p.) of Countervai.

Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.

Orvietan :: Orvietan (n.) A kind of antidote for poisons; a counter poison formerly in vogue.

Counterpoised :: Counterpoised (imp. & p. p.) of Counterpois.

Antanagoge :: Antanagoge (n.) A figure which consists in answering the charge of an adversary, by a counter charge..

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