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Count Kin with One (To)

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is a Scotch expression meaning to compare one’s pedigree with that of another.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cotton
Cotton Lord
Cottonian Library
Cottonopolis
Cotytto
Coucy
Couleur de Rose (French)
Coulin
Councils
Counsel
Count Kin with One (To)
Count not your Chickens
Count out the House (To)
Count Upon (To)
Countenance (To)
Counter-caster
Countercheck Quarrelsome (The)
Counterforts
Counter-jumper
Counterpane
Counterscarp