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Barroom :: Barroom (n.) A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

Stour :: Stour (n.) A battle or tumult; encounter; combat; disturbance; passion.

Slip :: Slip (n.) A counterfeit piece of money, being brass covered with silver..

Wellhole :: Wellhole (n.) A cavity which receives a counterbalancing weight in certain mechanical contrivances, and is adapted also for other purposes..

Countertime :: Countertime (n.) Resistance; opposition.

Feigned :: Feigned (a.) Not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false.

Counterchanging :: Counterchanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterchang.

Counterguard :: Counterguard (n.) 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..

Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (adv.) Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist..

Parry :: Parry (n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter..

Augmentation :: Augmentation (n.) In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length..

Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose..

Check :: Check (v. t.) To verify, to guard, to make secure, by means of a mark, token, or other check; to distinguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage..

Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) An opposite poin.

Counterstroke :: Counterstroke (n.) A stroke or blow in return.

Poise :: Poise (v.) That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

Countermand :: Countermand (v. t.) To oppose; to revoke the command of.

Counterturn :: Counterturn (n.) The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties..

Simular :: Simular (a.) False; specious; counterfeit.

Compone :: Compone (a.) Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony..

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