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Counter
COUNTER, noun [from count.]
1. A false piece of money or stamped metal, used as means of reckoning; any thing used to keep an account or reckoning, as in games.
2. Money, in contempt.
3. A table or board on which money is counted; a table on which goods in a shop are laid for examination by purchasers. In lieu of this, we sometimes see written the French comptoir, from compter, computo; but counter is the genuine orthography.
4. The name of certain prisons in London.
5. One that counts or reckons; also, an auditor.
6. Encounter. [Not used.]
7. In ships, an arch or vault, whose upper part is terminated by the bottom of the stern. The upper or second counter is above the former, but not vaulted.
COUNTER of a horse, that part of a horses forehand which lies between the shoulder and under the neck.
COUNTER, adverb [Latin]
1. Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; used chiefly with run or go; as, to run counter to the rules of virtue; he went counter to his own interest.
2. The wrong way; contrary to the right course.
3. Contrariwise; in a contrary manner.
4. The face, or at the face. [Not used.]
This word is prefixed to many others, chiefly verbs and nouns, expressing opposition.
Counter-Attraction
COUNTER-ATTRACTION, noun [counter and attraction.] Opposite attraction.
Counter-Dance
CONTRA-DANCE, COUNTER-DANCE noun A dance in which the partners are arranged in opposition, or in opposite lines.
Counter-Evidence
COUNTER-EVIDENCE, noun [counter and evidence.] Opposite evidence; evidence or testimony which opposes other evidence.
Counter-Influence
COUNTER-INFLUENCE, verb intransitive To hinder by opposing influence. [Little used.]
Counter-Motion
COUNTER-MOTION, noun [counter and motion.] An opposite motion; a motion counteracting another.
Counter-Movement
COUNTER-MOVEMENT, noun A movement in opposition to another.
Counter-Natural
COUNTER-NATURAL, adjective [counter and natural.] Contrary to nature.
Counter-Negotiatio
COUNTER-NEGOTIATION, n. [counter and negotiation.] Negotiation in opposition to other negotiation.
Counter-Opening
COUNTER-OPENING, noun [counter and opening.] An aperture or vent on the opposite side, or in a different place.
Counter-Petition
COUNTER-PETITION, noun A petition in opposition to another.
Counter-Revolution
COUNTER-REVOLUTION, noun A revolution opposed to a former one, and restoring a former state of things.
Counter-Revolution
COUNTER-REVOLUTION, noun A revolution opposed to a former one, and restoring a former state of things.
Counter-Revolution
COUNTER-REVOLUTION, noun A revolution opposed to a former one, and restoring a former state of things.
Counter-Saliant
COUNTER-SALIANT, adjective In heraldry, is when two beasts are borne in a coat leaping from each other.
Counter-Secure
COUNTER-SECURE, verb transitive [counter and secure.] To secure one who has given security.
Counter-Security
COUNTER-SECURITY, noun Security given to one who has entered into bonds or become surety for another.
Counter-Surety
COUNTER-SURETY, noun A counterbond, or a surety to secure one that has given security.
Counteract
COUNTERACT, verb transitive [counter and act.] To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat or frustrate by contrary agency. Good precepts will sometimes counteract the effects of evil example; but more generally good precepts are counteracted by bad examples.
Counteracted
COUNTERACTED, participle passive Hindered; frustrated; defeated by contrary agency.
Counteracting
COUNTERACTING, participle present tense Hindering; frustrating.
Counteraction
COUNTERACTION, noun Action in opposition; hindrance.
Counterbalance
COUNTERBALANCE, verb transitive [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.
COUNTERBALANCE, noun Equal weight, power or agency acting in opposition to any thing.
Money is the counterbalance of all things purchasable.
Counterbalanced
COUNTERBALANCED, participle passive Opposed by equal weight, power or effect.
Counterbalancing
COUNTERBALANCING, participle present tense Opposing by equal weight, power or operation.
Counterbond
COUNTERBOND, noun [counter and bond.] A bond to save harmless one who has given bond for another.
Counterbuff
COUNTERBUFF, verb transitive [counter and buff.] To strike back or in an opposite direction; to drive back; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.
Counterbuffed
COUNTERBUFFED, participle passive Struck with a blow in opposition.
Countercast
COUNTERCAST, noun Delusive contrivance; contrary cast.
Countercaster
COUNTERCASTER, noun [counter and caster.] A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper, in contempt.
Counterchange
COUNTERCHANGE, noun [counter and change.] Exchange; reciprocation.
COUNTERCHANGE, verb transitive To give and receive; or to cause to change places.
Counterchanged
COUNTERCHANGED, participle passive Exchanged. In heraldry, intermixed, as the colors of the field and charge.
Countercharm
COUNTERCHARM, noun [counter and charm.] That which has the power of dissolving or opposing the effect of a charm.
COUNTERCHARM, verb transitive To destroy the effect of enchantment.
Countercheck
COUNTERCHECK, verb transitive [counter and check.] To oppose or stop by some obstacle; to check.
COUNTERCHECK, noun Check; stop; rebuke; or a censure to check a reprover.
Countercurrent
COUNTERCURRENT, adjective [counter and current.] Running in an opposite direction.
COUNTERCURRENT, noun A current in an opposite direction.
Counterdistinction
COUNTERDISTINCTION, noun Contradistinction.
Counterdraw
COUNTERDRAW, verb transitive [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.
Counterdrawing
COUNTERDRAWING, participle present tense Copying by means of lines drawn on some transparent matter.
Counterdrawn
COUNTERDRAWN, participle passive Copied from lines drawn on something else.
Counterfeit
COUNTERFEIT, verb transitive
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 hand writing or signature of another, etc. 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.
COUNTERFEIT, verb intransitive To feign; to dissemble; to carry on a fiction or deception.
COUNTERFEIT, adjective
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 or exchange.
2. Assuming the appearance of something; false; hypocritical; as a counterfeit friend.
3. Having the resemblance of; false; not genuine; as counterfeit modesty.
COUNTERFEIT, noun
1. A cheat; a deceitful person; one who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an imposter.
2. In law, one who obtains money or goods by counterfeit letters or false tokens.
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
Counterfeited
COUNTERFEITED, participle passive Forged; made in imitation of something, with a view to defraud; copied; imitated; feigned.
Counterfeiter
COUNTERFEITER, noun
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.
Counterfeitly
COUNTERFEITLY, adverb By forgery; falsely; fictitiously.
Counterferment
COUNTERFERMENT, noun [counter and ferment.] Ferment opposed to ferment.
Counterfesance
COUNTERFESANCE, noun The act of forging; forgery.
Counterfoil
COUNTERFOIL, COUNTERSTOCK, noun 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.
Counterfort
COUNTERFORT, noun [counter and fort.] A buttress, spur or pillar serving to support a wall or terrace subject to bulge.
Countergage
COUNTERGAGE, noun [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.
Counterguard
COUNTERGUARD, noun [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.
Counterlight
COUNTERLIGHT, noun [counter and light.] A light opposite to any thing, which makes it appear to disadvantage.
Countermand
COUNTERMAND, verb transitive [Latin , to command.]
1. 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.
2. To oppose; to contradict the orders of another.
3. To prohibit. [Little used.]
COUNTERMAND, noun A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.
Countermanded
COUNTERMANDED, participle passive Revoked; annulled, as an order.
Countermanding
COUNTERMANDING, participle present tense Revoking a former order; giving directions contrary to a former command.
Countermarch
COUNTERMARCH, noun
1. A marching back; a returning.
2. 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.
3. A change of measures; alteration of conduct.
Countermark
COUNTERMARK, noun [counter and mark.]
1. 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.
2. The mark of the goldsmiths company, to show the metal to be standard, added to that of the artificer.
3. An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses, that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
4. A mark added to a medal, a long time after it has been struck, by which its several changes of value may be known.
COUNTERMARK, verb transitive To mark the corner teeth of a horse by an artificial cavity, to disguise his age.
Countermine
COUNTERMINE, noun [counter and mine.]
1. In military affairs, a well and gallery sunk in the earth and running under ground, in search of the enemys mine, or till it meets it, to defeat its effect.
2. Means of opposition or counteraction.
3. A stratagem or project to frustrate any contrivance.
COUNTERMINE, verb transitive
1. To sink a well and gallery in the earth, in search of an enemys mine, to frustrate his designs.
2. To counterwork; to frustrate by secret and opposite measures.
Countermure
COUNTERMURE, noun [Latin , a wall.] A wall raised behind another, to supply its place, when a breach is made.
COUNTERMURE, noun To fortify with a wall behind another.
Counternoise
COUNTERNOISE, noun [counter and noise.] A noise or sound by which another noise or sound is overpowered.
Counterpace
COUNTERPACE, noun [counter and pace.] A step or measure in opposition to another; contrary measure or attempt.
Counterpaled
COUNTERPALED, adjective [counter and pale.] In heraldry, is when the escutcheon is divided into twelve pales parted perfesse, the two colors being counterchanged; so that the upper and lower are of different colors.
Counterpane
COUNTERPANE, noun
1. A particular kind of coverlet for a bed. [See Counterpoint.]
2. One part of an indenture.
Counterpart
COUNTERPART, noun [counter and part.]
1. The correspondent part; the part that answers to another, as the two papers of a contract or indentures; a copy; a duplicate. Also, the part which fits another, as the key of a cipher.
2. In music, the part to be applied to another; as, the base is the counterpart to the treble.
Counterpassant
COUNTERPASSANT, adjective [counter and passant.] In heraldry, is when two lions in a coat of arms are represented as going contrary ways.
Counterplea
COUNTERPLEA, noun [counter and plea.] In law, a replication to a plea, or request.
Counterplot
COUNTERPLOT, verb transitive [counter and plot.] To oppose one plot to another; to attempt to frustrate stratagem by stratagem.
COUNTERPLOT, noun A plot or artifice opposed to another.
Counterplotting
COUNTERPLOTTING, noun A plotting in opposition to a stratagem.
Counterpoint
COUNTERPOINT, noun
1. A coverlet; a cover for a bed, stitched or woven in squares; written corruptly counterpane.
2. In music, counterpoint is when the musical characters by which the notes in each part are signified, are placed in such a manner, each with respect to each, as to show how the parts answer one to another. Hence counterpoint in composition is the art of combining and modulating consonant sounds.
3. An opposite point.
Counterpoise
COUNTERPOISE, verb transitive s as z. [See Poise.]
1. To counterbalance; to weigh against with equal weight; to be equiponderant to; to equal in weight.
The force and distance of weights counterpoising each other, ought to be reciprocal.
The heaviness of bodies must be counterpoised by a plummet fastened about the pulley to the axis.
2. To act against the equal power or effect; to balance. The wisdom of the senate may be able to counterpoise the rash impetuosity of a democratic house.
COUNTERPOISE, noun
1. Equal weight acting in opposition to something; equiponderance; a weight sufficient to balance another in the opposite scale; equal balance.
2. Equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force; equipollence.
The second nobles are a counterpoise to the higher nobility.
3. In the manege, a position of the rider in which his body is duly balanced in his seat, not inclined more to one than the other.
Counterpoised
COUNTERPOISED, participle passive Balanced by an equivalent opposing weight, or by equal power.
Counterpoising
COUNTERPOISING, participle present tense Balancing by equal weight in the opposite scale, or by equal power.
Counterpoison
COUNTERPOISON, noun s as z. [counter and poison.] One poison that destroys the effect of another; an antidote; a medicine that obviates the effects of poison.
Counterpressure
COUNTERPRESSURE, noun [counter and pressure.] Opposing pressure; a force or pressure that acts in a contrary direction.
Counterproject
COUNTERPROJECT, noun [counter and project.] A project, scheme or proposal, of one party, given in opposition to another, before given by the other party; as in the negotiation of a treaty.
Counterproof
COUNTERPROOF, noun [counter and proof.] In rolling-press printing, a print taken off from another fresh printed, which, by being passed through the press, gives the figure of the former, but inverted.
Counterprove
COUNTERPROVE, verb transitive [counter and prove.] To take off a design in black lead or red chalk, by passing it through a rolling press with another piece of paper, both being moistened with a spunge.
Counterroll
COUNTERROLL, noun [counter and roll.]
1. In law, a counterpart or copy of the rolls, relating to appeals, inquests, etc.
2. As a verb, this word is contracted into control, which see.
Counterrolment
COUNTERROLMENT, noun A counter account. [See Control.]
Counterscarp
COUNTERSCARP, noun In fortification, the exterior talus or slope of the ditch, or the talus that supports the earth of the covered way; but it often signifies the whole covered way, with its parapet and glacis; as when it is said, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp
Counterscuffle
COUNTERSCUFFLE, noun Opposite scuffle; contest.
Counterseal
COUNTERSEAL, verb transitive To seal with another.
Countersense
COUNTERSENSE, noun Opposite meaning.
Countersign
COUNTERSIGN, verb transitive [counter and sign.] Literally, to sign on the opposite side of an instrument or writing; hence, to sign, as secretary or other subordinate officer, a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest the authenticity of the writing. Thus charters signed by a king are countersigned by a secretary. Bank notes signed by the president are countersigned by the cashier.
COUNTERSIGN, noun A private signal, word or phrase, given to soldiers on guard, with orders to let no man pass unless he first names that sign; a military watchword. Advance and give the countersign
Countersignal
COUNTERSIGNAL, noun A signal to answer or correspond to another; a naval term.
Countersigned
COUNTERSIGNED, participle passive Signed by a secretary or other subordinate officer.
Countersigning
COUNTERSIGNING, participle present tense Attesting by the signature of a subordinate officer.
Counterstatute
COUNTERSTATUTE, noun A contrary statute, or ordinance.
Counterstock
COUNTERFOIL, COUNTERSTOCK noun 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.
Counterstroke
COUNTERSTROKE, noun A contrary stroke; a stroke returned.
Countersway
COUNTERSWAY, noun Contrary sway; opposite influence.
Countertally
COUNTERTALLY, noun A tally corresponding to another.
Countertaste
COUNTERTASTE, noun [counter and taste.] Opposite or false taste.
Countertenor
COUNTERTENOR, COUNTER, noun [counter and tenor.] In music, one of the middle parts, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.
Countertide
COUNTERTIDE, noun [counter and tide.] Contrary tide.
Countertime
COUNTERTIME, noun [counter and time.]
1. 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.
2. Resistance; opposition.
Counterturn
COUNTERTURN, noun The highth of a play, which puts an end to expectation.
Countervail
COUNTERVAIL, verb transitive [counter and Latin , to avail or be strong.] To act against with equal force, or power; to equal; to act with equivalent effect against any thing; to balance; to compensate.
The profit will hardly countervail the inconveniences.
Although the enemy could not countervail the kings damage. .
COUNTERVAIL, noun Equal weight or strength; power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight or value; compensation; requital.
Countervailed
COUNTERVAILED, participle passive Acted against with equal force or power; balanced; compensated.
Countervailing
COUNTERVAILING, participle present tense Opposing with equal strength or value; balancing; obviating an effect.
Counterview
COUNTERVIEW, noun [counter and view.]
1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other.
2. Contrast; a position in which two dissimilar things illustrate each other by opposition.
Countervote
COUNTERVOTE, verb transitive To vote in opposition; to outvote.
Counterweigh
COUNTERWEIGH, verb transitive [See Weigh.] To weigh against; to counterbalance.
Counterwheel
COUNTERWHEEL, verb transitive To cause to wheel in an opposite direction.
Counterwind
COUNTERWIND, noun Contrary wind.
Counterwrought
COUNTERWROUGHT, participle passive Counteracted; opposed by contrary action.
Countess
COUNTESS, noun [See count.] The consort of an earl or count.
Counting-House
COUNTING-HOUSE, COUNTING-ROOM, noun [See Count, the verb.] The house or room appropriated by merchants, traders and manufacturers to the business of keeping their books, accounts, letters and papers.
Counting-Room
COUNTING-HOUSE, COUNTING-ROOM noun [See Count, the verb.] The house or room appropriated by merchants, traders and manufacturers to the business of keeping their books, accounts, letters and papers.
Countless
COUNTLESS, adjective [count and less.] That cannot be counted; not having the number ascertained, nor ascertainable; innumerable. The sands of the sea-shore are countless
Country
COUNTRY, noun [Latin , land adjacent to a city. Hence the citizen says, let us go into the country The Latin has conterraneus, a countryman.]
1. Properly, the land lying about or near a city; the territory situated in the vicinity of a city. Our friend has a seat in the country a few miles from town. See . . Hence,
2. The whole territory of a kingdom or state, as opposed to city. We say, the gentleman has a seat in the country at any distance from town indefinitely. Hence,
3. Any tract of land, or inhabited land; any region, as distinguished from other regions; a kingdom, state or lesser district. We speak of all the countries of Europe or Asia.
And they came into the country of Moab. .
4. The kingdom , state or territory in which one is born; the land of nativity; or the particular district indefinitely in which one is born. America is my country or Connecticut is my country
Laban said, it must not be so done in our country .
5. The region in which one resides.
He sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country .
6. Land, as opposed to water; or inhabited territory.
The shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country .
7. The inhabitants of a region.
All the country wept with a loud voice. .
8. A place of residence; a region of permanent habitation.
They declare plainly that they seek a country .
They desire a better country a heavenly. .
9. In law, a jury or jurors; as, trial by the country per pais.
COUNTRY, adjective
1. Pertaining to the country or territory at a distance from a city; rural; rustic; as a country town; a country seat; a country squire; a country life; the country party, as opposed to city party.
2. Pertaining or peculiar to ones own country
He spoke in his country language.
3. Rude; ignorant.
COUNTRY-dance, and erroneous orthography. [See Contra-dance.]
Countryman
COUNTRYMAN, noun
1. One born in the same country with another. This man is my countryman [See ]
2. One who dwells in the country, as opposed to a citizen; a rustic; a farmer or husbandmen; a man of plain unpolished manners.
3. An inhabitant or native of a region. What countryman is he?
County
COUNTY, noun [Latin See Count.]
1. Originally, an earldom; the district or territory of a count or earl. Now, a circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice. It is called also a shire. [See Shire.] Each county has its sheriff and its court, with other officers employed in the administration of justice and the execution of the laws. In England there are fifty two counties, and in each is a Lord Lieutenant, who has command of the militia. The several states of America are divided by law into counties, in each of which is a county court of inferior jurisdiction; and in each, the supreme court of the state holds stated sessions.
2. A count; an earl or lord.
COUNTY court, the court whose jurisdiction is limited to a county whose powers, in America, depend on statutes. In England, it is incident to the jurisdiction of the sheriff.
COUNTY palatine, in England, is a county distinguished by particular privileges; so called a palatio, the palace, because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace; but their powers are not abridged. The counties palatine, in England, are Lancaster, Chester and Durham.
COUNTY corporate, is a county invested with particular privileges by charter or royal grant; as London, York, Bristol, etc.
COUNTY, adjective Pertaining to a county; as county court.
Coupee
COUPEE, noun A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent and suspended from the ground, and with the other a motion is made forward.
Couple
COUPLE, noun [Latin G.]
1. Two of the same species or kind, and near in place, or considered together; as a couple of men; a couple or oranges. I have planted a couple of cherry trees. We cannot call a horse and an ox a couple unless we add a generic term. Of a horse and ox feeding in a pasture, we should say, a couple of animals. Among huntsmen and soldiers, brace is used for couple; as a brace of ducks; a brace or pistols. couple differs from pair, which implies strictly not only things of the same kind, but likeness, equality or customary association. A pair is a couple; but a couple may or may not be a pair.
2. Two things of any kind connected or linked together.
3. A male and female connected by marriage, betrothed or allied; as a married couple; a young couple
4. That which links or connects two things together; a chain.
COUPLE, verb transitive
1. To link, chain or connect one thing with another; to sew or fasten together.
Thou shalt couple the curtains with taches. .
2. To marry; to wed; to unite, as husband and wife.
COUPLE, verb intransitive To embrace, as the sexes.
Coupled
COUPLED, participle passive United, as two things; linked; married.
Couplement
COUPLEMENT, noun Union.
Couplet
COUPLET, noun
1. Two verses; a pair of rhymes.
2. A division of a hymn or ode in which an equal number or equal measure of verse is found in each part, called a strophe.
3. A pair; as a couplet of doves. [Not used.]
Coupling
COUPLING, participle present tense Uniting in couples; fastening or connecting together; embracing.
COUPLING, noun
1. That which couples or connects.
2.The act of coupling
Courage
COURAGE, noun [Latin , the heart.] Bravery; intrepidity; that quality of mind which enables men to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear or depression of spirits; valor; boldness; resolution. It is a constituent part of fortitude; but fortitude implies patience to bear continued suffering.
COURAGE that grows from constitution, often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty, acts in a uniform manner.
Be strong and of good courage .
Courageous
COURAGEOUS, adjective Brave; bold; daring; intrepid; hardy to encounter difficulties and dangers; adventurous; enterprising.
Be thou strong and courageous .
Courageously
COURAGEOUSLY, adverb With courage; bravely; boldly; stoutly.
Courageousness
COURAGEOUSNESS, noun Courage; boldness; bravery; intrepidity; spirit; valor.
Courant
COURANT, COURANTO, n. 1. A piece of music in triple time; also, a kind of dance, consisting of a time, a step, a balance and a coupee.2. The title of a newspaper.
Couranto
COURANT, COURANTO noun
1. A piece of music in triple time; also, a kind of dance, consisting of a time, a step, a balance and a coupee.
2. The title of a newspaper.
Courap
COURAP, noun A distemper in the East Indies; a kind of herpes or itch in the armpits, groin, breast and face.
Courb
COURB, verb intransitive To bend. [Not in use.]
COURB, adjective Crooked. [Not in use.]
Courbaril
COURBARIL, noun Gum anime, which flows from the Hymenaea, a tree of South America; used for varnishing.
Courier
COURIER, noun [Latin] A messenger sent express, for conveying letters or dispatches on public business.
Course
COURSE, noun
1. In its general sense, a passing; a moving, or motion forward, in a direct or curving line; applicable to any body or substance, solid or fluid.
Applied to animals, a running, or walking; a race; a career; a passing, or passage, with any degree of swiftness indefinitely.
Applied to fluids, a flowing, as in a stream in any direction; as a straight course or winding course It is applied to water or other liquids, to air or wind, and to light, in the sense of motion or passing.
Applied to solid bodies, it signifies motion or passing; as the course of a rolling stone; the course of a carriage; the course of the earth in its orbit.
Applied to navigation, it signifies a passing or motion on water, or in balloons in air; a voyage.
2. The direction of motion; line of advancing; point of compass, in which motion is directed; as, what course shall the pilot steer? In technical language, the angel contained between the nearest meridian and that point of compass on which a ship sails in any direction.
3. Ground on which a race is run.
4. A passing or process; the progress of any thing; as the course of an argument, or of a debate; a course of thought or reflexion.
5. Order of proceeding or of passing from an ancestor to an heir; as the course of descent in inheritance.
6. Order; turn; class; succession of one to another in office, or duty.
The chief fathers of every course .
Solomon appointed the courses of the priests. .
7. Stated and orderly method of proceeding; usual manner. He obtained redress in due course of law. Leave nature to her course
8. Series of successive and methodical procedure; a train of acts, or applications; as a course of medicine administered.
9. A methodical series, applied to the arts or sciences; a systemized order of principles in arts or sciences, for illustration of instruction. We say, the author has completed a course of principles or of lectures in philosophy. Also, the order pursued by a student; as, he has completed a course of studies in law or physics.
10. Manner of proceeding; way of life or conduct; deportment; series of actions.
That I might finish my course with joy. .
Their course is evil. .
11. Line of conduct; manner of proceeding; as, we know not what course to pursue.
12. Natural bent; propensity; uncontrolled will. Let not a perverse child take his own course
13. Tilt; act of running in the lists.
14. Orderly structure; system.
The tongue setteth on fire the course of nature. .
15. Any regular series. In architecture, a continued range of stones, level or of the same highth, throughout the whole length of the building, and not interrupted by any aperture. A laying of bricks, etc.
16. The dishes set on table at one time; service of meat.
17. Regularity; order; regular succession; as, let the classes follow in course
18. Empty form; as, compliments are often words of course
Of course by consequence; in regular or natural order; in the common manner of proceeding; without specila direction or provision. This effect will follow of course If the defendant resides no in the state, the cause is continued of course
Coursed
COURSED, participle passive Hunted; chased; pursued; caused to run.
Courser
COURSER, noun
1. A swift horse; a runner; a war-horse; a word used chiefly in poetry.
2. One who hunts; one who pursues the sport of coursing hares.
3. A disputant. [Not in use.]
Courses
COURSES, noun plural
1. In a ship, the principal sails, as the main sail, fore sail, and mizen; sometimes the name is given to the stay sails on the lower masts; also to the main stay sails of all brigs and schooners.
2. Catamenia; menstrual flux.
COURSE, verb transitive
1. To hunt; to pursue; to chase.
We coursed him at the heels.
2. To cause to run; to force to move with speed.
3. To run through or over.
The blood courses the winding arteries.
The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
COURSE, verb intransitive To run; to move with speed; to run or move about; as, the blood courses
The grayhounds coursed through the fields.
Coursey
COURSEY, noun Part of the hatches in a galley.
Coursing
COURSING, participle present tense Hunting; chasing; running; flowing; compelling to run.
COURSING, noun The act or sport of chasing and hunting hares, foxes or deer.
Court
COURT, noun
1. A place in front of a house, inclosed by a wall or fence; in popular language, a court-yard.
2. A space inclosed by houses, broader than a street; or a space forming a kind of recess from a public street.
3. A palace; the place of residence of a king or sovereign prince.
4. The hall, chamber or place where justice is administered.
St. Paul was brought into the highest court in Athens.
5. Persons who compose the retinue or council of a king or emperor.
6. The persons or judges assembled for hearing and deciding causes, civil, criminal, military, naval or ecclesiastical; as a court of law; a court of chancery; a court martial; a court of admiralty; an ecclesiastical court; court baron; etc. Hence,
7. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
8. The art of pleasing; the art of insinuation; civility; flattery; address to gain favor. Hence the phrase, to make court to attempt to please by flattery and address.
9. In scripture, an inclosed part of the entrance into a palace or house. The tabernacle had one court; the temple, three. The first was the court of the Gentiles; the second, the court of Israel, in which the people worshiped; the third was the court of the priests, where the priests and Levites exercised their ministry. Hence places of public worship are called the courts of the Lord.
10. In the United States, a legislature consisting of two houses; as the General court of Massachusetts. The original constitution of Connecticut established a General court in 1639.
11. A session of the legislature.
COURT, verb transitive
1. In a general sense, to flatter; to endeavor to please by civilities and address; a use of the word derived from the manners of a court
2. To woo; to solicit for marriage.
A thousand court you, though they court in vain.
3. To attempt to gain by address; to solicit; to seek; as, to court commendation or applause.
Court-Baron
COURT-BARON, noun A barons court; a court incident to a manor.
Court-Bred
COURT-BRED, adjective [See Breed.] Bred at court.
Court-Breeding
COURT-BREEDING, noun Education at a court.
Court-Bubble
COURT-BUBBLE, noun The trifle of a court.
Court-Chaplain
COURT-CHAPLAIN, noun A chaplain to a king or prince.
Court-Cupboard
COURT-CUPBOARD, noun The sideboard of ancient days.
Court-Day
COURT-DAY, noun A day in which a court sits to administer justice.
Court-Dress
COURT-DRESS, noun A dress suitable for an appearance at court of levee.
Court-Dresser
COURT-DRESSER, noun A flatterer.
Court-Fashion
COURT-FASHION, noun The fashion of a court.
Court-Favor
COURT-FAVOR, noun A favor or benefit bestowed by a court or prince.
Court-Hand
COURT-HAND, noun The hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings.
Court-House
COURT-HOUSE, noun A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.
Court-Lady
COURT-LADY, noun A lady who attends or is conversant in court.
Court-Leet
COURT-LEET, noun A court of record held once a year, in particular hundred, lordship or manor, before the steward of the leet.
Court-Martial
COURT-MARTIAL, noun A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of offences of a military character.
Courted
COURTED, participle passive Flattered; wooed; solicited in marriage; sought.
Courteous
COURTEOUS, adjective [from court.]
1. Polite; wellbred; being of elegant manners; civil; obliging; condescending; applied to persons.
2. Polite; civil; graceful; elegant; complaisant; applied to manners, etc.
Courteously
COURTEOUSLY, adverb In a courteous manner; with obliging civility and condescension; complaisantly.
Courteousness
COURTEOUSNESS, noun Civility of manners; obliging condescension; complaisance.
Courter
COURTER, noun One who courts; one who solicits in marriage.
Courtesan
COURTESAN, noun A prostitute; a woman who prostitutes herself for hire, especially to men of rank.
Courtesy
COURTESY, noun
1. Elegance or politeness of manners; especially, politeness connected with kindness; civility; complaisance; as, the gentleman shows great courtesy to strangers; he treats his friends with great courtesy
2. An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.
3. The act of civility, respect or reverence, performed by a woman; a fall or inclination of the body, corresponding in design to the bow of a gentleman.
4. A favor; as, to hold upon courtesy that is, not of right, but by indulgence.
Tenure by courtesy or curtesy, is where a man marries a woman seized of an estate of inheritance, and has by her issue born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate; in this case, on the death of his wife, he holds the lands for his life, as tenant by curtesy.
COURTESY, verb intransitive To perform an act of civiility, respect or reverence, as a woman. Note. This word was formerly applied to the other sex; but is now used only of the acts of reverence or civility, performed by women.
COURTESY, verb transitive To treat with civility. [Not in use.]
Courtier
COURTIER, noun [from court.]
1. A man who attends or frequents the courts of princes.
2. One who courts or solicits the favor of another; one who flatters to please; one who possesses the art of gaining favor by address and complaisance.
There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III.
Courtiery
COURTIERY, noun The manners of a courtier. [Not used.]
Courting
COURTING, participle present tense Flattering; attempting to gain by address; wooing; soliciting in marriage.
Courtlike
COURTLIKE, adjective Polite; elegant.
Courtliness
COURTLINESS, noun [See Courtly.] Elegance of manners; grace of mien; civility; complaisance with dignity.
Courtling
COURTLING, noun A courtier; a retainer to a court.
Courtly
COURTLY, adjective [court and like.] Relating to a court; elegant; polite with dignity; applied to men and manners; flattering, applied to language.
COURTLY, adverb In the manner of courts; elegantly; in a flattering manner.
Courtship
COURTSHIP, noun
1. The act of soliciting favor.
2. The act of wooing in love; solicitation of a woman to marriage.
3. Civility; elegance of manners.
Cousin
COUSIN, noun
1. In a general sense, one collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister. But,
2. Appropriately, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt; the children of brothers and sisters being usually denominated cousins or cousin-germans. In the second generation, they are called second cousins.
3. A title given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council.
COUSIN, adjective Allied.
Couter-Signature
COUTER-SIGNATURE, noun The name of a secretary or other subordinate officer, countersigned to a writing.
Below the Imperial name is commonly a countersignature of one of the cabinet ministers.
Cove
COVE, noun A small inlet, creek or bay; a recess in the sea shore, where vessels and boats may sometimes be sheltered from the winds and waves.
COVE, verb transitive TO arch over; as a coved ceiling.
Covenable
COVENABLE, adjective Fit; suitable.
Covenant
COVENANT, noun [L, to come; a coming together; a meeting or agreement of minds.]
1. A mutual consent or agreement of two or more persons, to do or to forbear some act or thing; a contract; stipulation. A covenant is created by deed in writing, sealed and executed; or it may be implied in the contract.
2. A writing containing the terms of agreement or contract between parties; or the clause of agreement in a deed containing the covenant
3. In theology, the covenant of works, is that implied in the commands, prohibitions, and promises of God; the promise of God to man, that man's perfect obedience should entitle him to happiness. This do, and live; that do, and die.
The covenant of redemption, is the mutual agreement between the Father and Son, respecting the redemption of sinners by Christ.
The covenant of grace, is that by which God engages to bestow salvation on man, upon the condition that man shall believe in Christ and yield obedience to the terms of the gospel.
4. In church affairs, a solemn agreement between the members of a church, that they will walk together according to the precepts of the gospel, in brotherly affection.
COVENANT, verb intransitive To enter into a formal agreement; to stipulate; to bind ones self by contract. A covenants with B to convey to him a certain estate. When the terms are expressed it has for before the thing or price.
They covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver. .
COVENANT, verb transitive To grant or promise by covenant
Covenanted
COVENANTED, participle passive Pledged or promised by covenant.
Covenantee
COVENANTEE, noun The person to whom a covenant is made.
Covenanter
COVENANTER, noun He who makes a covenant.
Covenanting
COVENANTING, participle present tense Making a covenant; stipulating.
Covenous
COVENOUS, COVINOUS, adjective [See Covin.] Collusive; fraudulent; deceitful; as a covenous lease of lands.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.