n. A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another; as:
Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
The study of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]