Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COUN'TER-TIME
COUN'TER-TIME, n. [counter and time.]
- In the manege, the defense or 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. – Encyc.
- Resistance; opposition. – Dryden.
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