Word Meanings - COUNTESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.

• Counterirritation
  See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.
• Rightful
  Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons.
• Underlip
  The lower lip.
• Underween
  To undervalue.
• Countermove
  To move in a contrary direction to.
• Rightwisely
  Righteously.
• Underyoke
  To subject to the yoke; to make subject.
• Counterpoising
  of Counterpoise
• Underbrace
  To brace, fasten, or bind underneath or below.
• Underplay
  To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part.
• COUNTERTENOR
  One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.
• Countershaft
  An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.
• Undercoat
  A coat worn under another; a light coat, as distinguished from an overcoat, or a greatcoat.
• Underrun
  To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.
• Countertripping
  Same as Countertrippant.
• Underdolven
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• Undershoot
  To shoot short of (a mark).
• Counteracting
  of Counteract
• UNDERLOADSWITCH
  A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below a certain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.

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