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A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates.

• Countergage
  An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.
• Courtlike
  After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
• COURTCRAFT
  The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.
• Countermine
  An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
• Counterplot
  To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
• Housebote
  Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
• Composite
  Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
• Countersealing
  of Counterseal
• Housemate
  One who dwells in the same house with another.
• Correctional
  Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.
• Counterterm
  A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, "foe" is the counterterm of "friend".
• Justicehood
  Justiceship.
• Countenancer
  One who countenances, favors, or supports.
• Countesses
  of Countess
• Sovereignize
  To exercise supreme authority.
• Countercaster
  A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
• Country-dance
  See Contradance.
• Whichsoever
  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.
• Counterdrew
  of Counterdraw

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