counter a piece of false coin used to cast
accounts with:
“What, for a counter would I do but good,”
AS YOU LIKE IT, ii. 7. 63
(trifle);
“I cannot do't without counters,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, iv. 3. 35
;
“will you with counters sum,”
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, ii. 2.
28
;
“such rascal counters”
JULIUS CAESAR, iv. 3. 80
(where counters is used as a term of contempt for money);
“your neck, sir, is pen, book, and counters,”
CYMBELINE, v. 4. 168.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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