Noah Webster
Viscount
VI'SCOUNT, noun vi'count. [Latin vice-comes.]
1. An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count or earl; the sheriff of the country.
2. A degree or title of nobility next in rank to an earl.
VI'SCOUNT, noun vi'count. [Latin vice-comes.]
1. An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count or earl; the sheriff of the country.
2. A degree or title of nobility next in rank to an earl.