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counterlight

COUNTERLIGHT, n. [counter and light.] A light opposite to any thing, which makes it appear to disadvantage.



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COUNTERLIGHT, n. [counter and light.] A light opposite to any thing, which makes it appear to disadvantage.


COUN'TER-LIGHT, n. [counter and light.]

A light opposite to any thing, which makes it appear to disadvantage. – Chambers.

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Counterlight

COUNTERLIGHT, noun [counter and light.] A light opposite to any thing, which makes it appear to disadvantage.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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reserve

RESERVE, v.t. rezerv'. [L. reservo; re and servo, to keep.]

1. To keep in store for future or other use; to withhold from present use for another purpose. The farmer sells his corn, reserving only what is necessary for his family.

Hast thou seen the treasures of hail, which I have reserved against the day of trouble? Job 38.

2. To keep; to hold; to retain.

Will he reserve his anger for ever? Jer. 3.

3. To lay up and keep for a future time. 2Peter 2.

Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours.

RESERVE, n. rezerv'.

1. That which is kept for other or future use; that which is retained from present use or disposal.

The virgins, besides the oil in their lamps, carried likewise a reserve in some other vessel for a continual supply.

2. Something in the mind withheld from disclosure.

However any one may concur in the general scheme, it is still with certain reserves and deviations.

3. Exception; something withheld.

Is knowledge so despis'd? or envy, or what reserve forbids to taste?

4. Exception in favor.

Each has some darling lust, which pleads for a reserve.

5. Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior. Reserve may proceed from modesty, bashfulness, prudence, prudery or sullenness.

My soul surpris'd, and from her sex disjoin'd, left all reserve, and all the sex behind.

6. In law, reservation.

In reserve, in store; in keeping for other or future use. He has large quantities of wheat in reserve. He has evidence or arguments in reserve.

Body of reserve, in military affairs, the third or last line of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to sustain the other lines as occasion may require; a body of troops kept for an exigency.

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