1. (n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

2. (n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.

3. (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.

4. (v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.

5. (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

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