Contre. Against, contrarie to; much oppugnant, opposite, or in opposition, vnto; also, ouer-against, on the other side; also, towards; as, Contre disner; contre la nuict; and sometimes in composition; as in Contre-*bas, Contremont, &c. Il estoit tout contre. He was very neere, or hard by; also, he was right oueragainst, them. Halener contre. To blow vpon.
Contr-'adveu: m. An Answer, or Opposition to a Bill of Complaint for possession of moueables.
Contreadveu. See Contr-'adveu. Contre-advoué: m. ée: f. Owned, or claymed by seuerall parts, one saying tis his, another that tis his.
Contr'amour: m. A holie, and honest loue; opposite vnto the lasciuious, & dissolute passion, which is commonly tearmed loue.
Contr'animé: m. ée: f. Animated, or incouraged, against.
Contr'antidote: m. A remedie, or poison against a preseruatiue; a counterantidote.
Contr'applegement. An Answer, or Opposition, to a Bill of Complaint for the possession of an immoueable.
Contrebalance: f. A counterbalance, or counterpeise.
Contrebalancé: m. ée: f. Counterbalanced, counterpeised.
Contrebalancer. To counterbalance, or counterpeise; to weigh against; or to esteeme by; to make of equall weight with.
Contrebande. Marchandise de contrebande. Marchandise that is forbidden (by Proclamation, &c.)
Contrebarre: f. A counterbarre; the long (outward) barre, wherewith some (two-leaued) dores and windowes, and the most shop-windowes, are shut in.
Contrebarré: m. ée: f. Counterbarred; barred, or shut in, on the outside; also (in Blason) counterbarrie.
Contre-bas. Downeward.
Contre-base: f. A counterbase; the lowest part of a Basis; or the part, or peece, whereon it stands.
Contre-basse: f. The Base part in Musicke.
Contrebondi. Rebounded, leaped backe or against.
Contrebondir. To rebound; leape backe, or against.
Contreboutant. as Contrefort. Contrebouté: m. ée: f. Vnderpropped, borne vp, or borne against.
Contrebouter. To vnderprop, support, beare vp, or, beare against.
Contrecarre: f. A counterstrength, opposition, resistance, defence; (also, a reasoning, or arguing) against; also, comparison, or equalitie.
Contrecarré: m. ée: f. Set, or opposed against; also, compared, equalled, or layed in ballance with.
Contrecarrer. To resist, withstand, contrarie, set, or oppose himselfe against; also, to paragon, equall, compare, set in euen ballance with.
Contrecedule: f. The counterpane of a Scedule.
Contrechange: m. A counterchange; mutuall changing, or, crosse exchange.
Contrechangé: m. ée: f. Counterchanged, exchanged acrosse.
Contrechanger. To counterchange, or exchange acrosse one thing for another.
Contrechanter. To record in singing; to answer in the same note, or tune.
Contrecharger. To countercharge; to interchange burthens, or accusations.
Contrechifre: m. A countercypher; a note explanatorie of particular cyphers; or, as, Le Chifre d'un Prince. Contrechifrer. To answere cyphers with cyphers; also, to expound cyphers; also, to requite priuat affection in a priuat fashion.
Contrecoeur. as Contrecueur. Contrecourbé: m. ée: f. Bent fromward, or one from the other.
Contrecourber. To bend one from another, as wrestlers doe their backes.
Contrecueur: m. Loathing, irkesomenesse; also, the backe of a chimney. Cela me vient à contrecueur. That goes against my stomacke; my thoughts loath, mind hates, heart abhorres, it.
Contredict: m. A contradiction, gainesaying; refutation, confutation; a crosse answer; a replication; a prouing of the contrarie.
Contredict: m. icte: f. Contradicted, gainesayed; thwarted, contraried in words; refelled, refuted, confuted.
Contredigué: m. ée: f. Fenced, or fortified with bankes and ditches against bankes and ditches.
Contrediguer. To fence, or fortifie with banks and ditches; or, to oppose, or set vp, banks against banks.
Contredire. To contradict, gainesay, thwart, crosse, contrarie in words; also, to refell, conuince, confute.
Contredisant: m. ante: f. Crossing, contradicting, thwarting, gainsaying; quarrelsome, contentious, contrarie, crosse.
Contredise: f. as Contredite. Contredite: f. A contradiction, or crosse speech.
Contrée: f. A Countrey, Land, Region, Part, Coast, Quarter.
Contr'effort: m. A counter effort; or, effort vsed against force; a withstanding, striuing, resistance, indeuour against a strong, and stirring, aduersarie.
Contr'elider. To counterhit, counterstrike, counterdash, countersquize; to breake a stroke, or dash, &c, with a stroake, or dash &c.
Contr'escarpe: f. A counterscarfe, or countermure in a fortified towne.
Contr'eschangé: m. ée: f. Counterchanged.
Contr'eschanger. as Contrechanger. Contr'escript: m. A reply vnto a former writing; a writing repugnant; a confutation, or treatise written against; also, a copie.
Contr'escript: m. ipte: f. Confuted, written against; also, copied, written out.
Contr'escrire. To confute, or write against; also, to copie, or write, out.
Contr'-essay: m. A second essay, a further triall of.
Contr'estang: m. A Poole-damme; a backe-poole, or counter-pond; a great ditch, or hollow ground, whereinto the water of a Pond, thats to be fished, is let.
Contr'ester. To withstand, resist, contend with; to repugne.
Contrefaict: m. icte: f. Counterfeit, adulterate, fained, forged, false; also, deformed, disfigured, mishapen, ill fauoured; crooked, hulchbacked; or (as we say) a changeling.
Contrefaire. To counterfeit, imitate, resemble, faine. Contrefaire le loup en paille. See Loup. Se contrefaire. To dissemble, or disguise himselfe, to seeme other then he is.
Contre-fenestre: f. A woodden window (on the outside of a glasen one) a counter window, or outward window.
