Word Meanings - PALSGRAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany. (more info) Hist.)

Related words: (words related to PALSGRAVE)

• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• COUNTERJUMPER
  A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• COUNTER BRACE
  The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A
• COUNTER
  A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a. (more info) Note:
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• PRESIDENT
  Precedent. Bacon.
• COUNTERACT
  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.
• ROYALIZE
  to make royal. Shak.
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• COUNTERPART
  One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate. 3. A person who closely resembles another. 4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another
• COUNTERMARK
  An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age. (more info) 1. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark
• SUPERROYAL
  Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• SPEED COUNTER
  A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.