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Word Meanings - COUNTERIRRITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

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  • MORBIDEZZA
    Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
  • CURBLESS
    Having no curb or restraint.
  • 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.
  • TREATMENT
    1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
  • 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.
  • COUNTERJUMPER
    A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemtuously.
  • CURSORIAL
    Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves. Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
  • CURMURRING
    Murmuring; grumbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. Burns.
  • PURPOSELESS
    Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
  • CURIA
    The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. Burrill. (more info) One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus. The place of assembly of one of these divisions. The place where
  • 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
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • CURTEIN
    See CURTANA
  • COUNTER
    A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a. (more info) Note:
  • MERCURIALISM
    The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.
  • RECUR
    1. To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind. When any word has been used to signify an idea, the old idea will recur in the mind when the word is heard. I. Watts. 2. To occur at a stated interval, or according to some
  • ZANTE CURRANT
    A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
  • DIRECT CURRENT
    A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
  • ACCURATENESS
    The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
  • JAPAN CURRENT
    A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
  • ENCOUNTERER
    One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
  • OBSCURENESS
    Obscurity. Bp. Hall.

 

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