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.
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