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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.

A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.

Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.

To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.

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Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.

Tending to counteract.

One who, or that which, counteracts.

To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel

A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.

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A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.

A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.

To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.

To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.