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.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• 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.
• 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.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
  See A
• 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.
• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• 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
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.