countercheck

The beautiful simplicity of the countercheck aroused Matt's admiration.

The retort courteous, if not even the countercheck quarrelsome, "Then why do you notice it?"

Its use as a countercheck in this Order is best exemplified in the common water-beetle (Dytiscus marginalis).

The 80th captured the gun; and the enemy, dismayed by this countercheck, did not venture to press on further.

That word fell on his ear for the first time from a white man's lips, and the stupefaction of it was a countercheck to his grief.

The countercheck was effectual, and from her position of vantage the lady fired her first shot.