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Of great cost; expensive; dear. He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess. Prescott.

op; to crouch. [Obs.] An aged squire That seemed to couch under his shield three-square. Spenser.

; also, the number ascertained by counting. Of blessed saints for to increase the count. Spenser. By this count, I shall be much in years. Shak.

To make a show of; to pretend. [Obs.] Which to these ladies love did countenance. Spenser.

An encounter. [Obs.] With kindly counter under mimic shade. Spenser.

A trick; a delusive contrivance. [Obs.] Spenser.

self envied the same, And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame The thing itself. Spenser.

balance. So many freeholders of English will be able to beard and counterpoise the rest. Spenser.

A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.

or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go allong with it. L'Estrange.

the county, and collected by the boards of guardians, for the purpose of defraying the expenses to which counties are liable, such as repairing bridges, jails, etc. [Eng.] -- County seat, a county town. [U.S.] -- County sessions, the general quarter sessions of the peace for each county, held four times a year. [Eng.]…

bination; a coupling; a pair. [Obs.] Shak. And forth together rode, a goodly couplement. Spenser.

lattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. Spenser. I went to make my court to the Dike and Duches of Newcastle. Evelyn.

ned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.

furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.

Avarice. [Obs.] Spenser.

In the manner of a coward. Spenser.

A boast; boasting. [Obs.] "Crack and brags." Burton. "Vainglorius cracks." Spenser.

A hard brittle cake or biscuit. Spenser.

The neck or throat [Obs.] And bear the crag so stiff and so state. Spenser.