COUNTERFORT
Coun"ter*fort` (-frt`), n.
1. (Fort.)
Defn: A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
2. A spur or projection of a mountain. Imp. Dict.
COUNTERGAGE
Coun"ter*gage` (-gj`), n. (Carp.)
Defn: An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made. Knight.
COUNTERGLOW
Coun"ter*glow`, n. (Astron.)
Defn: An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen during September and October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood. Called also Gegenschein.
COUNTERGUARD
Coun"ter*guard` (koun"tr-grd`), n. (Fort.)
Defn: 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.