To trust in something good that is not yet certain. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see count, chicken.

simple past tense and past participle of count chickens

plural of counting house

Alternative form of countinghouse.

plural of counting rod

(mathematics) One of a set of small bars, used by mathematicians in some Asian countries, placed either horizontally or vertically to represent any number and any fraction.

plural of counting number

Synonym of count on

(transitive) To count (a series of numbers) aloud.

to add to get a total