counter guard (kountergard)

[ other than the cro -guard, which serves to protect the hand. In this sense the basket-hilt and knuckle-bow are counter-guards. See cut under hilt. (b) According to some writers, that part which covers the back of the hand, as distinguished from the guard protecting the fingers. See guard. IMG:content-1441.png:[blocks in formation] counterpane of a countermine, as a besieging enemy or his works. They countermined the a ailants, and, encountering them in the subterranean pa ages, drove them back. Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 13. 2. To counterwork; frustrate by secret and opposite measures. When sadne dejects me, either I countermine it with another sadne , or I kindle squibs about me again, and fly into sportfulne and company. Donne, Letters, xxvii. Thus infallibly it must be, if God do not miraculously countermine us, and do more for us than we can do against ourselves. Decay of Christian Piety. II. in trans. To make a countermine; counterplot; work against one secretly. 'Tis hard for man to countermine with God. Chapman. The enemy had countermined , but did not succeed in reaching our mine. U. S. Grant , Personal Memoirs, I. 549. Counter-motion (kounter-mō-shon), n. An opposite motion; one motion counteracting an rations is, that grants are never countermandable ; whereas declarations are evermore countermandable in other. their natures. counter-hurter (koun'tér-hér-tėr), n. [= F. contre-heurtoir.] In gun ., a piece of iron bolted to the top of the cha is-rails, at the rear end, Pg.contra mar char , F.contre -marcher; as counmotive. to check the recoil of the gun-carriage. In some carriages spiral or rubber springs attached to the rear transom answer the same purpose. Similar devices at the front end of the cha is are called hurters. counter-indication (koun'tér-in-di-kā"shon), n. [= F. contre - indication = Sp. contraindicacion = Pg. contraindicação = It. contra ind i caz i one: see counter- and indication.] Same as contra indication.