Word Meanings - RHYTHMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who writes in rhythm, esp. in poetic rhythm or meter. One now scarce counted a rhythmer, formerly admitted for a poet. Fuller.
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- 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. - ADMITTER
One who admits. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - COUNTRY-DANCE
See MACUALAY - SCARCEMENT
An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing. - 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. - METERGRAM
A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation. - 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. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - COUNTRY SEAT
A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. - VACUOMETER
An instrument for the comparison of barometers. An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures. - ACIDIMETER
An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. Ure. - PNEUMONOMETER
A spirometer; a pneumometer. - PNEOMETER
A spirometer. - ALTIMETER
An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight. - LYSIMETER
An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight. - AUXOMETER
An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses. - ALGOMETER
An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try , n. -- Al`go*met"ric , *met"ric*al , a. --Al`go*met"ric*al*ly, adv. - ATMOMETER
An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley. - BAROCYCLONOMETER
An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.