Countertime

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Countertime \Coun"ter*time`\ (-t?m`), n.
     1. (Man.) The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his
        cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad
        horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.
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     2. Resistance; opposition. [Obs.]
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              Give not shus the countertime to fate. --Dryden.
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