the manege, is the defence or resistance of a horse that interrupts his cadence, and the measure of his manege, occasioned either by a bad horseman or by the malice of a horse.

Counter, is also the name of a counting-board in a shop, and of a piece of metal with a stamp on it, used in playing at cards.

Counter of a Horse, that part of a horse's forehand which lies between the shoulders and under the neck.

Counters in a ship, are two. 1. The hollow arching from the gallery to the lower part of the straight piece of the stern, is called the upper-counter. 2. The lower counter is between the transom and the lower part of the gallery.

Counter, is also the name of two prisons in the city of London, viz. the Poultry and Woodstreet.

Countors, Countours, or Counters, has been used for sergeants at law, retained to defend a cause, or to speak for their client in any course of law.

It is of these Chaucer speaks:

— A sheriff had he been, and a countour, Was nowhere such a worthy vavasour.

They were anciently called sergeant countours.

Countries, among the miners, a term or appellation they give to their works underground.

Country, among geographers, is used indifferently to denote either a kingdom, province, or lesser district. But its most frequent use is in contradistinction to town.

Country-Dance is of English origin, though now transplanted into almost all the countries and courts of Europe. There is no established rule for the composition of tunes to this dance, because there is in music no kind of time whatever which may not be measured by the motions common in dancing; and there are few song tunes of any note within the last century, that have not been applied to country-dances.