COUNT, v.t. 1. To number; to tell or name one by one, or by small numbers, for ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; as, to count the years, days and hours of a mans life; to count the stars.Who can count the dust of Jacob? Numbers 23.2. To reckon; to preserve a reckoning; to compute.Some tribes of rude nations count their years by the coming of certain birds among them at certain seasons, and leaving them at others.3. To reckon; to place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.Abraham believed in God, and he counted it to him for righteousness. Genesis 15. 4. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.I count them my enemies. Psalm 139.Neither count I my life dear to myself. Acts 20. I count all things loss. Philippians 3.5. To impute; to charge.COUNT, v.i. To count on or upon, to reckon upon; to found an account or scheme on; to rely on. We cannot count on the friendship of nations. Count not on the sincerity of sycophants. COUNT, n. 1. Reckoning; the act of numbering; as, this is the number according to my count.2. Number.3. In law, a particular charge in an indictment, or narration in pleading, setting forth the cause of complaint. There may be different counts in the same declaration.COUNT, n. [L., a companion or associate, a fellow traveler.] A title of foreign nobility, equivalent to the English earl, and whose domain is a county. An earl; the alderman of a shire, as the Saxons called him. The titles of English nobility, according to their rank, are Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron. |
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