Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COUNT, n.² [Fr. comte; It. conte; Sp. conde; Port. id.; Arm. condt; from L. comes, comitis, a companion or associate, a fellow traveler. Qu. con and eo.]

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. – Blackstone. Encyc.