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The old gods of our own race whose names . . .
serve as counters reckon the days of the week.

E. B. Tylor.

What comes the wool to? . . . I can not do it
without counters.

Shak.

3. Money; coin; -- used in
contempt. [Obs.]

To lock such rascal counters from his
friends.

Shak.

4. A prison; either of two prisons
formerly in London.

Anne Aysavugh . . . imprisoned in the
Counter.

Fuller.

5. A telltale; a contrivance attached to
an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of
counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
Knight.

Coun"ter, n. [OE. countour,
OF. contouer, comptouer, F. comptoir, LL.
computatorium, prop., a computing place, place of
accounts, fr. L. computare. See Count, v.
t.] A table or board on which money is counted and
over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench,
on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on
which they are weighed or measured.


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