COUNTERMARK

Definition: COUNTERMARK

COUNTERMARK

Noun

1. An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.

2. A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy.

Transitive verb

1. To apply a countermark to; as, to countermark silverware; to countermark a horse's teeth.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Indication

Badge, criterion; countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop; dib; totem; tessera, card, bill; witness, voucher; stamp; cacher; trade mark, Hall mark.

Romanian

contramarcã (check, counterfoil, counter-ticket). (various references)

Russian 

контрольное/пробирное клеймо, клеймо (brand, chop, earmark, note, seal, stamp, stigma, stigmata, trademark). (various references)

Swedish

kontrollstämpel (hallmark). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dấu phụ, dấu đóng thêm. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mucronate, numerator, raconteur.

-3 letters: courante, cremator, outrance, romancer, routeman, trackmen, trouncer, truckman, truckmen.

-4 letters: automen, centaur, centrum, comaker, cornute, counter, courant, courter, cranker, creator, croaker, curator, currant, current, enactor, enamour, erratum, manurer, maturer, morceau, mounter, mourner, neuroma, outearn, outrace, outrank, rancour, reactor, recount, remount, retrack, romance, romaunt, tonearm, tracker, trounce, trucker, uncrate, unmaker.