Count

1. To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
2. To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
3. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
To count out
1. To exclude (one) from consideration; to be assured that (one) will not participate or cannot be depended upon.
2. To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected.

1. To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
2. To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.
3. To take account or note; -- with
4. (Eng. Law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

1. The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.
2. An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
3. (Law) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.

In the old law books, count was used synonymously with declaration. When the plaintiff has but a single cause of action, and makes but one statement of it, that statement is called indifferently count or declaration, most generally, however, the latter. But where the suit embraces several causes, or the plaintiff makes several different statements of the same cause of action, each statement is called a count, and all of them combined, a declaration.
n.
Count palatine

1. Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster.
2. Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains.

Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest period of its history, been designated as Countesses.