Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COUN-TER-CHECK', v.t. [counter and check.]

To oppose or stop by some obstacle; to check.

COUN-TER-CHECK'ED, pp.

Opposed; stopped.

COUN-TER-CHECK'ING, ppr.

Checking by hinderance.

COUN-TER-CUR'RENT, a. [counter and current.]

Running in an opposite direction. – Kirwan.

COUN'TER-CUR-RENT, n.

A current in an opposite direction.

COUN-TER-DIS-TINC'TION, n.

Contradistinction. – More.

COUN-TER-DRAW', v.t. [counter and draw.]

In painting, to copy a design or painting, by means of a fine linen cloth, an oiled paper, or other transparent matter, whereon the strokes appearing through, they are traced with a pencil. The same is done on glass, and with frames or nets divided into squares with silk or thread, or by means of instruments, as the parallelogram. – Encyc.

COUN-TER-DRAW'ING, ppr.

Copying by means of lines drawn on some transparent matter.

COUN-TER-DRAWN', pp.

Copied from lines drawn on something else.

COUN-TER-EV'I-DENCE, n. [counter and evidence.]

Opposite evidence; evidence or testimony which opposes other evidence. – Burnet.

COUN'TER-FEIT, a.

1. Forged; fictitious; false; fabricated without right; made in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud, by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit coin; a counterfeit bond or deed; a counterfeit bill of exchange.
2. Assuming the appearance of something; false hypocritical; as, a counterfeit friend.
3. Having the resemblance of; false; not genuine; as, counterfeit modesty.

COUN'TER-FEIT, n.

1. A cheat; a deceitful person; one who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor.
2. In law, one who obtains money or goods by counterfeit letters or false tokens. – Encyc.
3. That which is made in imitation of something, but without lawful authority, and with a view to defraud, by passing the false for the true. We say, the note is a counterfeit.

COUN'TER-FEIT, v.i.

To feign; to dissemble; to carry on a fiction or deception. – Shak.

COUN'TER-FEIT, v.t. [coun'terfit; Fr. contrefaire, contrefait; contre and faire, to make; L. contra and facio; It. contraffare, contraffatto; Sp. contrahacer, contrahecho.]

1. To forge; to copy or imitate, without authority or right, and with a view to deceive or defraud, by passing the copy or thing forged, for that which is original or genuine; as, to counterfeit coin, bank notes, a seal, a bond, a deed or other instrument in writing, the handwriting or signature of another, &c. To make a likeness or resemblance of any thing with a view to defraud.
2. To imitate; to copy; to make or put on a resemblance; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person; to counterfeit piety.

COUN'TER-FEIT-ED, pp.

Forged; made in imitation of something, with a view to defraud; copied; imitated; feigned.

COUN'TER-FEIT-ER, n.

1. One who counterfeits; a forger.
2. One who copies or imitates; one who assumes a false appearance.
3. One who endeavors to set off a thing, in false colors.

COUN'TER-FEIT-ING, ppr.

Forging; feigning.

COUN'TER-FEIT-LY, adv.

By forgery; falsely; fictitiously.

COUN-TER-FER'MENT, n. [counter and ferment.]

Ferment opposed to ferment. – Addison.

COUN-TER-FE'SANCE, n. [Fr. contrefaisance.]

The act of forging; forgery. [Obs.]

COUN'TER-FOIL, or COUN'TER-STOCK, n.

That part of a tally struck in the Exchequer, which is kept by an officer in that court, the other being delivered to the person who has lent the king money on the account, and is called the stock. – Bailey.

COUN'TER-FORT, n. [counter and fort.]

A buttress, spur or pillar serving to support a wall or terrace subject to bulge. – Chambers.

COUN'TER-GAGE, n. [counter and gage.]

In carpentry, a method used to measure the joints, by transferring the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be, in order to make them fit each other. – Chambers.

COUN'TER-GUARD, n. [counter and guard.]

In fortification, a small rampart or work raised before the point of a bastion, consisting of two long faces parallel to the faces of the bastion, making a salient angle, to preserve the bastion. It is sometimes of a different shape, or differently situated. – Encyc.

COUN-TER-IN'FLU-ENCE, v.t.

To hinder by opposing influence. [Little used.] – Scott.