Word Meanings - COUNTERMARCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To march back, or to march in reversed order. The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay.

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• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• MARCHER
  One who marches.
• REVERSION
  The returning of an esttate to the grantor or his heirs, by operation of law, after the grant has terminated; hence, the residue of an estate left in the proprietor or owner thereof, to take effect in possession, by operation of law, after
• REVERSIS
  A certain game at cards.
• RECEDE
  1. To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. Like the hollow roar Of tides receding from the instituted shore. Dryden. All bodies moved circularly endeavor to recede from the center. Bentley. 2. To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist;
• REVERSIONER
  One who has a reversion, or who is entitled to lands or tenements, after a particular estate granted is terminated. Blackstone.
• MARCH
  The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares,
• REVERSIBLE
  1. Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence. 2. Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics. Reversible lock, a lock
• MARCHING
  ,fr. March, v. Marching money , the additional pay of officer or soldier when his regiment is marching. -- In marching order , equipped for a march. -- Marching regiment. A regiment in active service. In England, a regiment liable
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• REVERSEDLY
  In a reversed way.
• REVERSELESS
  Irreversible. A. SEward.
• MARCHIONESS
  The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman.
• MARCH-MAD
  Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month. Sir W. Scott.
• COUNTERMARCH
  To march back, or to march in reversed order. The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay.
• REVERSIBILITY
  The quality of being reversible. Tyndall.
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• REVERSE
  Reversed; as, a reverse shell. Reverse bearing , the bearing of a back station as observed from the station next in advance. -- Reverse curve , a curve like the letter S, formed of two curves bending in opposite directions. -- Reverse fire ,
• ORDER
  1. Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system; as: Of material things, like the books in a library. Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. Of periods of time or
• REVERSER
  One who reverses.
• NOMARCH
  The chief magistrate of a nome or nomarchy.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• POLEMARCH
  In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but, afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect of strangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high military and civil officer.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• OVERMARCH
  To march too far, or too much; to exhaust by marching. Baker.
• DISMARCH
  To march away.
• OUTMARCH
  To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
• PRECEDE
  1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. "Harm precedes not sin." Milton. 2. To go before in place, rank, or importance. 3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the