Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VIS'COUNT
VIS-COS'I-TY, or VIS'COUS-NESSVIS'COUNT-ESS
VIS'COUNT, n. [vi'count; L. vice-comes; Fr. vicomte.]
- An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count or earl; the sherif of the county. – England.
- A degree or title of nobility next in rank to an earl. – Cowel. England.
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