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viscount |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Viscount \Vis"count`\, n. [OE. vicounte, OF visconte vescunte F. vicomte, LL vicecomes L. vice (see {Vice}, a.) + comes a companion, LL., a count See {Count}.] 1. (O. Eng. Law) An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count or earl; the sheriff of the county. 2. A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also his degree or title of nobility. See {Peer}, n., 3. [Eng.] --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: viscount n 1: (in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count 2: a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron
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