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[ Pref.counter, and guard.] Fort.: A rampart in advance of a bastion and having faces parallel thereto. counter-ing, *cown-ter-ynge, pr. par, a. & 8. [COUNTER, v.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As substantive : I. Ord. Lang.: The act of encountering; an encounter. IMG:content-1130.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Boxing : The giving and receiving of a blow at TERM ARCH, v.] the same time. *2. Music: Singing in parts, or in harmony. "Cownterynge yn songe. Concentus."-Prompt. Parv. *coun-ter-league, v . i . & t . [Pref. counter , and league , v.] A. In trans.: To league or confederate against others. IMG:content-1131.png:[blocks in formation] *Some tardy cripple bore the countermand , That came too lag to see him buried." IMG:content-1132.png:[blocks in formation] C. As subst.: The act of marching in a direction opposite to that in which men have been marching. "Mackay, meanwhile, wasted some weeks in marching, in countermarching, and in indecisive skirmishing."- Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xiii. coun-ter-mark, s. [ Pref.counter , and mark .] 1. Commerce : (1) An additional mark or sign placed upon goods, either for more certain identification, or in the case of goods belonging to more than one per son, that they may not be opened except in the presence of all the owners. IMG:content-1133.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1134.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1135.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Fig .: The act of frustrating, defeating, or counteracting any project. coun-ter-mō-tive, s. [Pref. counter , and mo- tive. An opposing or counteracting motive. coun-ter-müre, 8. [Fr. contremur .] 1. Fort .: A wall built up behind another wall, to take its place if carried. "The gentlemen and others of Yorkshire, who had ."-Reresby: Mem ., p. 102. coun-têr-pléa, s. [Pref. counter , and plea .] Law : A replication to a plea. coun-ter-plead, v . i . [Pref. counter , and plead .] To plead in opposition; to enter counterpleas. did strive "Love ne wol nat counterpleted be In ryght ne wrong." Chaucer: Leg. Good Women, prol. 476. *coun-ter-plot, v. t . [COUNTERPLOT, 8.] Το another. Fort.: To fortify by building one wall behind "They are plac'd in those imperial heights, Where, countermur'd with walls of diamond, I find the place impregnable."- Kya : Spanish Trag. counter-müred, pa . par. or a. [COUNTER- MURE. v.] *counter-noise, s. [Pref. counter , and noise .] A noise which counteracts or overpowers another noise. ings and riotous exce es, to drown the softer whispers of their conscience."- Calamy : Sermons. IMG:content-1136.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A point of difference, a contrast. "Here M. Hardinge by counter pointes, and by sundrie circumstances of difference, compareth the state of the primitiue churche, and his churche of Rome together." Jewell: A Reply to M. Hardinge , p. 203. B. Music: The term "counterpoint" in its broadest sense may be defined as "the art of adding one or more parts to a given melody;" in its more limited sense as," the art of harmonizing a theme by adding parts which shall be in themselves melodious." The terms subject, melody, canto fermo, and theme are synonymous. Counterpoint is simple or double. There are five species of simple counterpoint: (1) When the added part is note against note of the subject; (2) when the added part is two notes to one of the subject; (3) when the added part is four notes to one of the subject; (4) when the added part is in syncopation to each note of the subject; (5) when the added part is free, or has a florid accompaniment to each note of the subject. Counterpoints triple and quadruple, as their names show, are the due construction of three or four melodies respectively, in such a manner that they can be interchangeable without involving the infringement of the laws of musical grammar. ( Stainer & Barrett .) coun-ter-point-ê', a. [Fr. contrepointé.] Her.: An epithet applied to two chevrons which meet with their points in the center of the escutcheon counter or opposite to each other.