Counterbalance
(Coun"ter*bal`ance) n. A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another; as:
(a) 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. (b) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a
drawbridge or a scale beam.
Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it.
Locke.
Counterbore
(Coun"ter*bore`) n.
1. A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving
a cylindrical screw head.
2. 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.
Counterbore
(Coun`ter*bore") v. t. To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge,
as a hole, by means of a counterbore.
Counter brace
(Coun"ter brace`)
1. (Naut.) The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
2. (Engin.) A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a
main brace is designed to receive.
In a quadrilateral system of bracing, the main brace is usually in the direction of one diagonal, and the
counter brace 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.
Counterbrace
(Coun"ter*brace`), v. t.
1. (Naut.) To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards
one way and the after yards another.
2. (Engin.) To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.
Counterbuff
(Coun`ter*buff") v. t. To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or
impulse in front. Dryden.
Counterbuff
(Coun"ter*buff`) n. A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a
recoil.
Countercast
(Coun"ter*cast`) n. A trick; a delusive contrivance. [Obs.] Spenser.
Countercaster
(Coun"ter*cast`er) n. A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; — used contemptuously.
Counterchange
(Coun`ter*change") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterchanged (-ch?njd"); p. pr. & vb. n.
Counterchanging.]
1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2.
Witch-elms, that counterchange the floor
Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.
Tennyson.
Counterchange
(Coun"ter*change`) n. Exchange; reciprocation.
