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COUNTER-FACED

Volume 2 · 52 words · 1771 Edition

or COUNTER-FACE', in heraldry, is the same that we call barry per pale counterchanged; but then the number of panes into which the field is divided is always specified. See BARRY.

COUNTER FOIL, or COUNTER-STOCK, in the exchequer, that part of a tally which is kept by an officer of the court.