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.
© Webster 1913.