Count

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COUNT, v. and sb. Var. dial. uses in Sc. and Eng. In forms coont Sc. Nhb. Cum.1 e.Yks.1; ceawnt Lan.; keawnt Lan.1; cant e.Lan.1 [Sc. n.Cy. kūnt, w.Yks. kānt, Lan. kēnt, midl. kaunt, s.Cy. keunt.]

1. v. To practise arithmetic, ‘do sums.’ Kcd. She cudna write, she cudna count, Grant Lays (1884) 27. Cum. He's a good scholar, he can read an write and coont first-rate (E.W.P.). Hence (1) Counter, sb. an arithmetician, a worker at arithmetic; (2) Counting, vbl. sb. arithmetic; (3) Counting-book, sb. an arithmetic book, a book into which sums are copied; (4) Counting-table, a desk at which those learning arithmetic sit at school. (1) Sc. (Jam.) Abd. A feerious gweed coonter, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) ix. ne.Yks.1 (2) Sc. I gat nae mair learning, than reading, writing, and counting (Jam.). n.Sc. The writin', an' the readin', an' the coontin', Gordon Carglen (1891) 169. Abd. The dominie's nae gryte deykn at the common coontin', Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) ix. Rnf. At the schule he's in coontin, an' writin, an' a, Neilson Poems (1877) 48. Kcb. There's no a feller loon At coontin', psalm, or carritch, Armstrong Ingleside (1890) 140. Cum., Wm. (M.P.), n.Yks. (I.W.), ne.Yks.1 e.Yks.1 Ah deeant knaw noot aboot coontin mysen, bud Ah want you tĭ larn Tom it. (3) n.Yks. Ah's gahin tĭ set this questn down in my countin' beeak (I.W.). (4) Cum., Wm. (M.P.)
2. To settle accounts, make a yearly settlement with a landlord. Sc. A certain king wha wad count wi' his servan's, Henderson St. Matt. (1862) xviii. 23. Sh.&Ork.1 Abd. We can coont aboot the price, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) x. Hence (1) Counting, vbl. sb. the act of settling the yearly transactions between landlord and tenant; (2) Counting-dram, sb. the dram of spirits it was the custom to give after a ‘counting.’ Sh.&Ork.1
3. To regard, consider, esteem; to guess, suppose, presume, ‘reckon.’ Cum. (M.P.); Cum.1 I count nought o' sec wark. Lan. He whose wife is a witch? ─ Hoo be so ceawnted, sure eno, Ainsworth Witches (ed. 1849) Introd. i. Chs.1; Chs.3 They donna count him much of a man at delving. Not.1, Lei.1 Nhp.1 I count I shall go to London next week; Nhp.2, War. (J.R.W.), War.3, Glo.1 Glo.2 Oxf.1 I dunt count much o' that, MS. add. Bdf. You don't mean to leave us yet, I count? (J.W.B.); Batchelor Anal. Eng. Lang. (1809) 130. Hnt. (T.P.F.), Cmb. (J.D.R.) e.An.1 I count you farm three hundred acres. Suf. I count him a good sort o' man (M.E.R.). Ess. If the racin' 'oodn't soon bargin, John counted that it 'ood, Clark J. Noakes (1839) st. 97; Ess.1 Sus., Hmp. Holloway. Wil.1 I don't count as he'll come. Dor. Barnes Gl. (1863). Som. I count he've a-gone across the water, Raymond Sam and Sabina (1894) 42; I count he's a good un with 'is vistes (F.A.A.). w.Som.1 Bee yùe gwai·n oa·m? ─ Ee·s aay kaewnt [Are you going home? ─ Yes! I think]. I count there's up dree or vower hunded a left. Dev. I count thee's mind but vurry liddle, Pulman Sketches (1842) 87, ed. 1871.
4. phr. (1) to count kin with, to compare one's pedigree with another's; (2) to count one no thanks, to show no gratitude. Cf. come thanks, s.v. Come, v.1 II. 4 (8). (1) Sc. No knight in Cumberland so good, But William may count with him kin and blood, Scott Last Minstrel (1805) iv. st. 26; I'll count kin wi' him whenever he likes (Jam.). (2) n.Yks.2
5. With on: to rely, reckon on. n.Yks.2 I count nought on't. w.Yks. I count on having them all here (C.C.R.). Chs.1 Oi dunna count mitch on her. n.Lin.1 She coonted up o' bein' married afoore th' bairn was born.
6. sb. Calculation, reckoning. Sc. (Jam.) Lan. Oi made up my count when oi left whoam, Kay-Shuttleworth Scarsdale (1860) I. 94; The reet keawnt an' weight, Brierley Layrock (1864) xi.
7. pl. Accounts; arithmetic, sums. Ayr. She was haudin' me up to Stair as a perfect sample of industry at the beucks and the coonts, Service Dr. Duguid (1887)
8. Nhb. Bankers growlin' at their frinds Their 'coonts for owerdrawin', Wilson Pitman's Pay (1843) 108.
9. Comp. (1) Count-book, an account-book; a text-book of arithmetic; (2) Count-house, the office or counting-house of a mine. (1) Sc. (Jam.) Ayr. Go through the count-book as far as Simple Proportion, Johnston Kilmallie (1891) I. 5. w.Yks.1 Dunnot tradefoak... keep a count-book? ii. 319. (2) Cor. The oldest ‘count-house’ in Cornwall, Burrow 'Mongst Mines, 15.
10. In measuring yarn, the number of hanks in a pound weight. w.Yks. (J.M.); (F.R.) [Gl. Lab. (1894).]
11. Esteem, regard, consideration, importance, gen. used with a negative. Lan.1 Aw ma no keawnt of it. e.Lan.1 I make no cant of that fellow. Glo. (J.S.F.S.) Brks.1 A yent much count at cricket. Sur. Folk here don't take much 'count on he, Bickley Sur. Hills (1890) II. xv. Hmp.1 I.W.2 He's noo count at all. Som. (F.A.A.)
12. phr. (1) to make count, to expect, calculate, reckon; (2) upon count, on account of, because. (1) Lei.1 Ah dunna mek so mooch caount o' them theer Chaney pigs. War.3 Ess. They'll maake a count oad Tiptree still To wisit ev'ry year, Clark J. Noakes (1839) st. 182. (2) n.Stf. I've been forced t'have Nancy in upo' count as Hetty must gether the red currants, Geo. Eliot A. Bede (1859) xx. Lei.1

COUNT, v. and sb. Cum. Lan. 1. v. In phr. to count one thanks, to show gratitude. Cum.4 2. sb. pl. A cloth-making term: the number of threads to an inch. s.Lan.1

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