Word Meanings - CROSS-PURPOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.

• Counterwheel
  To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.
• Counterbuff
  To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.
• Counter-courant
  Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
• Counterforce
  An opposing force.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Countermarch
  To march back, or to march in reversed order.
• Counterplotted
  of Counterplot
• Counterscarf
  The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.
• Countersway
  A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.
• Counterwork
  To work in opposition to; to counteract.
• Countercast
  A trick; a delusive contrivance.
• Oppositely
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely.
• Countercurrent
  Running in an opposite direction.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Counterfort
  A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
• Countermark
  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 adde
• Counterplotting
  of Counterplot
• Countersealed
  of Counterseal

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