Word Meanings - COUNTERMARK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy.

• Belonged
  of Belong
• Standard-bred
  Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders.
• ADDLEBRAINADDLEHEADADDLEPATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow. [Colloq.]
• OPENSEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• Medalled
  of Medal
• Addice
  See Adze.
• Open-headed
  Bareheaded.
• Addled
  of Addle
• Presence
  The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.
• Addression
  The act of addressing or directing one's course.
• Silverback
  The knot.
• Affordment
  Anything given as a help; bestowal.
• Silversmith
  One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
• Belonging
  of Belong
• Standardize
  To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
• Excepted
  of Except
• ADDLEBRAINEDADDLEHEADEDADDLEPATED
  Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.
• Existence
  The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence.

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