A false piece of money or stamped metal, used as means of reckoning; any thing used to keep an account or reckoning, as in games.

Money, in contempt.

A table or board on which money is counted; a table on which goods in a shop are laid for examination by purchasers. In lieu of this, we sometimes see written the French comptoir, from compter, computo; but counter is the genuine orthography.

The name of certain prisons in London.

One that counts or reckons; also, an auditor.€

Encounter.

In ships, an arch or vault, whose upper part is terminated by the bottom of the stern. The upper or second counter is above the former, but not vaulted. Counter of a horse, that part of a horses forehand which lies between the shoulder and under the neck.

Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; used chiefly with run or go; as, to run counter to the rules of virtue; he went counter to his own interest.

The wrong way; contrary to the right course.

Contrariwise; in a contrary manner.

The face, or at the face. This word is prefixed to many others, chiefly verbs and nouns, expressing opposition.

In music, one of the middle parts, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.