2. A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.
Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror.
Sir P. Sidney.
Countermine
(Coun`ter*mine") v. t. [Cf. F. contreminer.] [imp. & p. p. Countermined; p. pr. & vb. n.
Countermining.]
1. (Mil.) To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine.
2. To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
Countermine
(Coun`ter*mine"), v. i. To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.
'Tis hard for man to countermine with God.
Chapman.
Countermove
(Coun`ter*move") v. t. & i. To move in a contrary direction to.
Countermove
(Coun"ter*move`) n. Countermovement
(Coun"ter*move`ment) A movement in opposition
to another.
Countermure
(Coun"ter*mure`) n. [Counter- + mure: cf. F. contremur.] (Fort.) A wall raised behind
another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure. Knolles.
Countermure
(Coun`ter*mure") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Countermured (-m?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Countermuring.]
[Cf. F. contremurer.] To fortify with a wall behind another wall. [R.] Kyd.
Counternatural
(Coun"ter*nat`u*ral) a. Contrary to nature. [R.] Harvey.
Counter-paly
(Coun"ter-pa`ly) a. [F. contre-palé.] (Her.) Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each
vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon
in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.
Counterpane
(Coun"ter*pane`) n. [See Counterpoint, corrupted into counterpane, from the employment
of pane-shaped figures in these coverlets. ] A coverlet for a bed, — originally stitched or woven in
squares or figures.
On which a tissue counterpane was cast.
Drayton.
Counterpane
(Coun"ter*pane`), n. [OF. contrepan a pledge, security; contre + pan a skirt, also, a pawn
or gage, F. pan a skirt. See Pane, and cf. Pawn.] (O. Law) A duplicate part or copy of an indenture,
deed, etc., corresponding with the original; — now called counterpart.
Read, scribe; give me the counterpane.
B. Jonson.
Counterpart
(Coun"ter*part`) n.
1. A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a
duplicate; a facsimile.
In same things the laws of Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it
were, copies or counterparts one of another.
Sir M. Hale.
2. (Law) One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate.
3. A person who closely resembles another.
