in rolling-press printing, a print taken off from another fresh printed, which by being passed through the press gives the figure of the former, but inverted. To counter-prove is also to pass a design in black lead or red chalk through the press, after having moistened with a sponge both that and the paper on which the counter-proof is to be taken.

COUNTER-Quartered (contre-ecartelé), in Heraldry, denotes that the escutcheon, after being quartered, has each quarter again divided into two.

COUNTER-Salient is when two beasts are borne in a coat leaping from each other directly contrariwise.