COUNTERMINE Coun"ter*mine` (koun"tr-mn`), n. Etym: [Counter- + mine underground gallery: cf. F. contermine.]
1. (Mil.)
Defn: An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
2. A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated. Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror. Sir P. Sidney.
COUNTERMINE Coun`ter*mine" (koun`tr-mn"), v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. contreminer.] [imp. & p. p. Countermined; p. pr. & vb. n. Countermining.]
1. (Mil.)
Defn: To oppose by means or a countermine; to intercept with a countermine.
2. To frustrate or counteract by secret measures.
COUNTERMINE
Coun`ter*mine", v. i.
Defn: To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.
'Tis hard for man to countermine with God. Chapman.