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Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony.

Countervallation :: Countervallation (n.) See Contravallation.

Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

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

Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

Passage :: Passage (v. i.) A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms..

Counter :: Counter (adv.) Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.

Countersunk :: Countersunk (p. p. & a.) Chamfered at the top; -- said of a hole.

Countercheck :: Countercheck (n.) Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.

Antidote :: Antidote (n.) Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract evil which something else might produce..

Counterbalance :: Counterbalance (n.) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel.

Counterirritate :: Counterirritate (v. t.) To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

Counterplot :: Counterplot (n.) A plot or artifice opposed to another.

Countercharming :: Countercharming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterchar.

Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To extend over; to be sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses..

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..

Rescript :: Rescript (v. t.) A counterpart.

Efficacy :: Efficacy (n.) Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer..

Countreplete :: Countreplete (v. t.) To counterplead.

Counteractive :: Counteractive (a.) Tending to counteract.

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