Part 2490

<hw>Coun"ter*fort`</hw> <tt>(-f?rt`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A spur or projection of a mountain.</def>

<i>Imp. Dict.</i>

<h1>Countergage</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*gage`</hw> <tt>(-g?j`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Carp.)</fld> <def>An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Counterguard</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*guard`</hw> <tt>(koun"t?r-g?rd`)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.</def>

<mhw><h1>Counterirritant -rr-t<it>a</it>nt, n., Counterirritation</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*ir`ri*tant</hw> <tt>(-?r"r?-t<it>a</it>nt)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>, <hw>Coun"ter*ir`ri*ta"tion</hw>, <tt>n.</tt></mhw> <def>See <cref>Counter irritant</cref>, etc., under <er>Counter</er>, <tt>a.</tt></def>

<h1>Counterirritate</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*ir"ri*tate</hw> <tt>(koun"t?r-?r"r?-t?t)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.</def>

<h1>Counterjumper</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*jump`er</hw> <tt>(koun"t?r-j?mp`?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.</def> <mark>[Slang]</mark>

<h1>Counterman</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*man</hw> <tt>(koun"t?r-m<it>a</it>n)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Countermen</plw> <tt>(-m<it>e</it>n)</tt>.</plu> <def>A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<h1>Countermand</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun`ter*mand"</hw> <tt>(koun`t?r-m?nd")</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp & p. p.</tt> <er>Countermanded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Countermanding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>contremander</ets>; <ets>contre</ets> (L. <ets>contra</ets>) + <ets>mander</ets> to command, fr. L. <ets>mandare</ets>. Cf. <er>Mandate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; <as>as, to <ex>countermand</ex> an order for goods</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To prohibit; to forbid.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Avicen <b>countermands</b> letting blood in choleric bodles. <i>Harvey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To oppose; to revoke the command of.</def>

<blockquote>For us to alter anuthing, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to <b>countermand</b> him. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Countermand</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun"ter*mand</hw> <tt>(koun"t?r-m?nd)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.</def>

<blockquote>Have you no <b>countermand</b> for Claudio yet, But he must die to-morrow? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Countermandable</h1> <Xpage=332>

<hw>Coun`ter*mand"a*ble</hw> <tt>(-m?nd"?-b'l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being countermanded; revocable.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>