Part 2486

<h1>Counterbalance</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun`ter*bal"ance</hw> <tt>(-b?l"<it>a</it>ns)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Counterbalanced</er> <tt>(-<it>a</it>nst)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Counterbalancing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.</def>

<blockquote>The remaining air was not able to <b>counterbalance</b> the mercurial cylinder. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The cstudy of mind is necessary to <b>counterbalance</b> and correct the influence of the study of nature. <i>Sir W. Hamilton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Counterbalance</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*bal`ance</hw> <tt>(koun"t?r-b?l`<it>a</it>ns)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel</def>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.</def>

<blockquote>Money is the <b>counterbalance</b> to all other things purchasable by it. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Counterbore</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*bore`</hw> <tt>(-b?r`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.</def>

<h1>Counterbore</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun`ter*bore"</hw> <tt>(koun`t?r-b?r")</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.</def>

<h1>Counter brace</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter brace`</hw> <tt>(br?s`)</tt>. <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Engin.)</fld> <def>A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.</def>

<note>&hand; In a quadrilateral system of bracing, the <i>main brace</i> is usually in the direction of one diagonal, and the <i>counter brace</i> in the direction of the other. Strains in counter braces are occasioned by the live load only, as, in a roof, by the wind, or, in a bridge, by a moving train.</note>

<h1>Counterbrace</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*brace`</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To brace in opposite directions; <as>as, to <ex>counterbrace</ex> the yards, <it>i. e.</it>, to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Engin.)</fld> <def>To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.</def>

<h1>Counterbuff</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun`ter*buff"</hw> <tt>(koun`t?r-b?f")</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Counterbuff</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*buff`</hw> <tt>(koun"t?r-b?f`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.</def>

<h1>Countercast</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*cast`</hw> <tt>(koun"t?r-k?st`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A trick; a delusive contrivance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Countercaster</h1> <Xpage=332>