Of blessed saints for to increase the count. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

By this count, I shall be much in years. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An object of interest or account; value; estimation. [ Obs. ] “All his care and count.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the old law books, count was used synonymously with declaration. When the plaintiff has but a single cause of action, and makes but one statement of it, that statement is called indifferently count or declaration, most generally, however, the latter. But where the suit embraces several causes, or the plaintiff makes several different statements of the same cause of action, each statement is called a count, and all of them combined, a declaration. Bouvier. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

This excellent man . . . counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen. J. A. Symonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To take account or note; -- with of. [ Obs. ] “No man counts of her beauty.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eng. Law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who can count the dust of Jacob? Num. xxiii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging. [ 1913 Webster ]

Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Rom. iv. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider. [ 1913 Webster ]

I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To count out. (a) To exclude (one) from consideration; to be assured that (one) will not participate or cannot be depended upon. (b) (House of Commons) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present. (c) To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. [ Colloq. ]

Syn. -- To calculate; number; reckon; compute; enumerate. See Calculate. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest period of its history, been designated as Countesses. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

Count palatine. (a) Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster. [ Eng. ] See County palatine, under County. (b) Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. [ Germany ] [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the Son, and into terror changed
His countenance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The face; the features. [ 1913 Webster ]

In countenance somewhat doth resemble you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Approving or encouraging aspect of face; hence, favor, good will, support; aid; encouragement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast made him . . . glad with thy countenance. Ps. xxi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the magistrate's peculiar province, to give countenance to piety and virtue, and to rebuke vice. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Superficial appearance; show; pretense. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The election being done, he made countenance of great discontent thereat. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

In countenance, in an assured condition or aspect; free from shame or dismay. “It puts the learned in countenance, and gives them a place among the fashionable part of mankind.” Addison. --
Out of countenance, not bold or assured; confounded; abashed. “Their best friends were out of countenance, because they found that the imputations . . . were well grounded.” Clarendon. --
To keep the countenance, to preserve a composed or natural look, undisturbed by passion or emotion. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

This conceit, though countenanced by learned men, is not made out either by experience or reason. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Error supports custom, custom countenances error. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a show of; to pretend. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which to these ladies love did countenance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Running counter to all the rules of virtue. Locks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is counter, you false Danish dogs! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. At or against the front or face. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Which [ darts ] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

Over the counter (a) (Stock Exchanges), in an office; -- said of business so done, as distinguished from that done at an exchange. [ Cant ] -- (a) without a prescription; needing no prescription; -- said of medicines that can be legally bought without a physician's prescription. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]