Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COUN'TER-FEIT
COUN'TER-FEIT, n.
- A cheat; a deceitful person; one who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor.
- In law, one who obtains money or goods by counterfeit letters or false tokens. – Encyc.
- That which is made in imitation of something, but without lawful authority, and with a view to defraud, by passing the false for the true. We say, the note is a counterfeit.
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