Dictionary: COUN-TER-AC'TIVE – COUN'TER-CHECK

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COUN-TER-AC'TIVE, a.

Tending to counteract. [COUN-TER-ACT'IVE. Chalmers. 1841.]

COUN-TER-ACT'IVE, n.

One who or that which counteracts.

COUN-TER-ACT'IVE-LY, adv.

By counteraction.

COUN-TER-AT-TRAC'TION, n. [counter and attraction.]

Opposite attraction. – Shenstone.

COUN-TER-AT-TRACT'IVE, a.

Attracting in an opposite way.

COUN-TER-BAL'ANCE, n.

Equal weight, power or agency acting in opposition to any thing. Money is the counterbalance of all things purchasable. – Locke.

COUN-TER-BAL'ANCE, v.t. [counter and balance.]

To weigh against; to weigh against with an equal weight; to act against with equal power or effect; to countervail. A column of thirty inches of quicksilver, and a column of thirty two feet of water, counterbalance the weight of a like column of the whole atmosphere. The pleasures of sin never counterbalance the pain, misery and shame, which follow the commission of it.

COUN-TER-BAL'ANC-ED, pp.

Opposed by equal weight, power or effect.

COUN-TER-BAL'ANC-ING, ppr.

Opposing by equal weight, power or operation.

COUN'TER-BOND, n. [counter and bond.]

A bond to save harmless one who has given bond for another.

COUN'TER-BUFF, n.

A blow in any opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or causes a recoil. – Sidney.

COUN-TER-BUFF', v.t. [counter and buff.]

To strike back or in an opposite direction; to drive back; to stop by a blow or impulse in front. – Dryden.

COUN-TER-BUFF'ED, pp.

Struck with a blow in opposition.

COUN'TER-CAST, n.

Delusive contrivance; contrary cast. – Spenser.

COUN'TER-CAST-ER, n. [counter and caster.]

A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper, in contempt. – Shak.

COUN'TER-CHANGE, n. [counter and change.]

Exchange; reciprocation.

COUN'TER-CHANGE, v.t.

To give and receive; or to cause to change places.

COUN-TER-CHANG'ED, pp.

Exchanged. In heraldry, intermixed, as the colors of the field and charge.

COUN-TER-CHANG'ING, ppr.

Exchanging; intermixing.

COUN'TER-CHARGE, n.

An opposite charge.

COUN'TER-CHARM, n. [counter and charm.]

That which has the power of dissolving or opposing the effect of a charm. – Pope.

COUN-TER-CHARM', v.t.

To destroy the effect of enchantment.

COUN-TER-CHARM'ED, pp.

Defeated by contrary charms.

COUN-TER-CHARM'ING, ppr.

Destroying the effect by opposite charms.

COUN'TER-CHECK, n.

Check; stop; rebuke; or a censure to check a reprover. – Bailey.