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Recital. [Obs.] Shak.

To meet unexpectedly; to encounter.

A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter.

The quality or state of being unaccountable.

Not accountable or responsible; free from control. South.

In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry. [Colloq.]

See Viscount.

An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count, or earl; the sheriff of the county.

The dignity or jurisdiction of a viscount. Sir B. Burke.

The wife of a viscount.

The quality, rank, or office of a viscount.

One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

ame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.

abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.…

on upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

The earliest known inhabitants of a country; native races.

Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.