n. One who counts or reckons; a computer; an auditor.n. An apparatus for keeping count of revolutions or other movements.n. A thing used in counting; that which indicates a number; that which is used to keep an account or reckoning, as in games; specifically, a piece of metal, ivory, wood, or other material, or a spurious or imitation coin, used for this purpose.n. A piece of money; a coin; in plural, money.n. In early English law, an attorney or serjeant at law retained to conduct a cause in court.n. A counting-room.n. A table or board on which money is counted; a table in a shop on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers.n. Formerly, in England, a debtors' prison: used especially as the name of two prisons for debtors in the City of London, and of one in Southwark.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.In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; in the reverse direction; contrariwise.Directly in front; in or at the face.Adverse; opposite; contrary; opposing; antagonistic.Against; contrary or antagonistic to.n. That which is counter or antagonistic; an opposite.n. In music, any voice-part set in contrast to a principal melody or part; specifically, the counter-tenor; the high tenor or alto. Sometimes this part is sung an octave higher than it is written, thus becoming a high soprano.n. That part of a horse's breast which lies between the shoulders and under the neck.n. That part of a ship which lies between the water-line and the knuckle of the stern. The counter-timbers are short timbers in the stern, used to strengthen the counter.n. The stiff leather forming the back part of a shoe or boot surrounding the heel of the wearer. See cut under boot.n. In fencing, a parry in which the sword's point makes a complete curve, returning to its original position. The various counters are named with reference to the thrust to be parried, as the counter of carte, of tierce, etc.n. Same as counter-lode.In boxing, to give a return blow while receiving or parrying the blow of an antagonist.In boxing, to meet or return by a counter-blow: as, to counter a blow.In shoemaking, to put a counter upon; furnish with a counter: as, to counter a shoe.To come against; meet; encounter.To come into collision; encounter.n. A meeting; an encounter.n. A prefix of Latin origin, being a doublet of contra-, and appearing in words of Middle English origin, or in later words formed on the analogy of such. Considered merely as an English prefix, counter- is to be referred to counter, adverb, or counter, adjective See counter.n. n. The representative of the engineer-in-chief of a canal or similar public work, having special charge of the recording of quantities of excavation, embankment, or masonry.n. The depressed part of the face of a coin, modal, or printing-type that gives relief and contrast to the raised part of the design.
