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Viscount (?), 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.

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    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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