Hypertext Webster Gateway: "counterchanged"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Counterchanged \Coun`ter*changed"\ (-ch?njd"), a.
1. Exchanged.
2. (Her.) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if
the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is
borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes
on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will
be azure.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Counterchange \Coun`ter*change"\ (koun`t[~e]r*ch[=a]nj), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Counterchanged} (-ch?njd"); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Counterchanging}.]
1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to
exchange.
2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging.
See {Counterchaged}, a., 2.
Witch-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this
flat lawn with dusk and bright. --Tennyson.
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