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1. rely
1. count \'kau.nt\ \-*-b*l\ vb [ME counten, fr. MF compter, fr. L
computare, fr. com-]+ putare to consider 1a: to indicate or name by units
or groups to find the total number of uni ts involved : NUMBER 1b: to name
the numbers in order up to and including {~ ten} 1c: to include in a
tallying and reckoning {about 100 present, ~Xing children} 2a: CONSIDER,
ACCOUNT {~ oneself lucky} 2b: ESTIMATE, ESTEEM 2c: to record as of an
opinion or persuasion {~ me as uncommitted)> 3: to include or exclude by or
as if by counting {~ me in} 1a: to recite or indicate the numbers in order
by units or groups {~)R by fives} 1b: to count the units in a group 2a:
DEPEND {a man you can ~ on} 2b: to take something into consideration {~ed
on being prese nt} 3: ADD, TOTAL 4: to have value or significance -
count.able aj
2. count n 1: the act or process of counting; also : a total obtained by
count ing : TALLY archaic 2a: RECKONING, ACCOUNT 2b: CONSIDERATION,
ESTIMATION 3a: ALLEGATION, CHARGE; specif : one separately stating the
cause of action or prosecution in a legal declaration or indictment {guilty
on all ~s} 3b: a specific point under consideration : ISSUE 4: the total
number of individual things in a given unit or sample {blood ~} 5: the
calling off of the seconds from one to ten when a boxer has been kno cked
down
3. count n [MF comte, fr. LL comit-, comes, fr. L, companion, one of the]
imperial court, fr. com- + ire to go - more at ISSUE : a European nobleman
whose rank corresponds to that of an English earl