COUNTERBALANCE, v.t. To weigh against; to weigh against with an equal weight; to act against with equal power or effect; to countervail A column of thirty inches of quicksilver, and a column of thirty-two feet of water, counterbalance the weight of a like column of the whole atmosphere. The pleasures of sin never counterbalance the pain, misery and shame which follow the commission of it.

, n. Equal weight, power or agency acting in opposition to any thing.

Money is the counterbalance of all things purchasable.