Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COUN'TER-FEIT, n.

1. A cheat; a deceitful person; one who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor.
2. In law, one who obtains money or goods by counterfeit letters or false tokens. – Encyc.
3. 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.