counter courant

IMG:content-1114.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1115.png:[blocks in formation] there is no counter-evidence, nor any witne , that appears against it."-Barnet: Theory of the Earth. counter-extension, s .. 1. Ord. Lang.: The act or state of extending in an opposite direction. 2. Surg .: A method of reducing a fracture by extension in the opposite direction. Counter - extension apparatus : Surg.: An apparatus for retaining firmly the upper part of a limb while extension is practiced upon the lower, in cases of fracture of the femur or the neck of the trochanter major, to enable the bony parts to unite without a shortening of the limb. counter-faller, s. Cotton - manufacture : In the mule-spinner, a counterweighted wire, which is depre ed when the faller-wire lowers the row of yarns to wind them on the cop. Its duty is to balance the threads after they are depre ed by the faller-wire, and to straighten them when loose. counter-flory, a. Her.: An epithet denoting that the flowers with which an ordinary is adorned stand opposite to each other.