Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: COUN-TER-IN'FLU-EN-CED – COUN'TER-NAT-U-RAL
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Hindered by opposing influence.
COUN-TER-IN'FLU-EN-CING, ppr.
Opposing by opposing influence.
COUN'TER-LIGHT, n. [counter and light.]
A light opposite to any thing, which makes it appear to disadvantage. – Chambers.
COUN'TER-MAND, n.
A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command. – Shak.
COUN-TER-MAND', v.t. [Fr. contremander; contre and mander, L. mando, to command.]
- To revoke a former command; or to give an order contrary to one before given, which annuls a former command and forbids its execution; as, to countermand orders.
- To oppose; to contradict the orders of another. – Hooker.
- To prohibit. [Little used.] – Harvey.
COUN-TER-MAND'ED, pp.
Revoked; annulled, as an order.
COUN-TER-MAND'ING, ppr.
Revoking a former order; giving directions contrary to a former command.
COUN'TER-MARCH, n.
- A marching back; returning. – Collier.
- A change of the wings or face of a battalion, so as to bring the right to the left or the front into the rear. – Cyc.
- A change of measures; alteration of conduct. – Burnet.
COUN-TER-MARCH', v.i. [counter and march.]
To march back.
COUN'TER-MARCH-ED, pp.
Marched back.
COUN'TER-MARCH-ING, ppr.
Marching back.
COUN'TER-MARK, n. [counter and mark.]
- A second or third mark put on a bale of goods belonging to several merchants, that it may not be opened, but in the presence of all the owners.
- The mark of the goldsmiths' company, to show the metal to be standard, added to that of the artificer.
- An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses, that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
- A mark added to a medal, a long time after it has been struck, by which its several changes of value may be known. – Chambers.
COUN-TER-MARK', v.t.
To mark the corner teeth of a horse by an artificial cavity, to disguise his age. – Farrier's Dict.
COUN'TER-MINE, n. [counter and mine.]
- In military affairs, a well and gallery sunk in the earth and running under ground, in search of the enemy's mine, or till it meets it to defeat its effect. – Military Dict.
- Means of opposition or counteraction. – Sidney.
- A stratagem or project to frustrate any contrivance. – L'Estrange.
COUN-TER-MINE', v.t.
- To sink a well and gallery in the earth, in search of an enemy's mine, to frustrate his designs.
- To counterwork; to frustrate by secret and opposite measures.
COUN'TER-MIN-ED, pp.
Counterworked.
COUN'TER-MIN-ING, ppr.
Sinking a mine to frustrate another mine.
COUN'TER-MO-TION, n. [counter and motion.]
An opposite motion; a motion counteracting another. – Digby. Collier.
COUN'TER-MO-TIVE, n.
An opposite motive.
A movement in opposition to another.
COUN'TER-MURE, n. [Fr. contremur; contre and mur, L. murus, a wall.]
A wall raised behind another, to supply its place, when a breach is made.
COUN'TER-MURE, v.t.
To fortify with a wall behind another.
COUN'TER-MUR-ED, pp.
Fortified by a wall behind another.
COUN'TER-MUR-ING, ppr.
Fortifying by a wall behind another.
COUN'TER-NAT-U-RAL, a. [counter and natural.]
Contrary to nature. – Harvey.