Word Meanings - BEADROLL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general.

• Counterview
  An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other.
• Counterbalancing
  of Counterbalance
• Countreplete
  To counterplead.
• Counterchecking
  of Countercheck
• Counterfeitly
  By forgery; falsely.
• Countermanding
  of Countermand
• COUNTERCOMPONY
  See Compony.
• Counter-paly
  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.
• COUNTRYBASE
  Same as Prison base.
• Counterprove
  To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, under Counter.
• Countersink
  To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw.
• Counting
  of Count
• Countervote
  To vote in opposition to; to balance or overcome by voting; to outvote.
• Counterbalance
  To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
• Countretaille
  A counter tally; correspondence (in sound).
• Countercheck
  To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.
• Counterfesance
  The act of forging; forgery.

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