Webster's Dictionary 1828

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NUMBERING

NUM'BERING, participle present tense Counting; ascertaining the units of a multitutde or collection.

866

NUMBERLESS

NUM'BERLESS, adjective That cannot be counted; innumerable.

867

NUMBERS

NUM'BERS, noun The title of the fourth book of the Pentateuch.

868

NUMBING

NUMBING, participle present tense Making torpid.

869

NUMBLES

NUM'BLES, noun The entrails of a deer.

870

NUMBNESS

NUMBNESS, noun Torpor; that state of a living body in which it has not the power of feeling or motion, as when paralytc or chilled by cold.

871

NUMERABLE

NU'MERABLE, adjective That may be numbered or counted.

872

NUMERAL

NU'MERAL, adjective1. Pertaining to number; consisting of number.The dependence of a long train of numeral progressions.2. Expressing number; representing number; standing as a ...

873

NUMERALLY

NU'MERALLY, adverb According to number; in number.

874

NUMERARY

NU'MERARY, adjective Belonging to a certain number.A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon.

875

NUMERATE

NU'MERATE, verb transitive To count or reckon in numbers; to calculate. [But enumerate is generally used.]

876

NUMERATION

NUMERA'TION, noun1. The act or art of numbering.Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign.2. In arithmetic, notation; the a...

877

NUMERATOR

NU'MERATOR, noun [Latin]1. One that numbers.2. In arithmetic, the number in vulgar fractions which shows how many parts of a unit are taken. Thus when a unit is divided into 9 p...

878

NUMERIC

NUMER'IC, adjective [Latin, number.]1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as numerical algebra; numerical characters.2. Numerical difference, is that b...

879

NUMERICAL

NUMER'ICAL, adjective [Latin, number.]1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as numerical algebra; numerical characters.2.numerical difference, is that ...

880

NUMERICALLY

NUMER'ICALLY, adverb1. In numbers; as parts of a thing numerically expressed.2. With respect to number or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically...

881

NUMERIST

NU'MERIST, noun One that deals in numbers. [Not used.]

882

NUMEROSITY

NUMEROS'ITY, noun The state of being numerous. [Not used.]

883

NUMEROUS

NU'MEROUS, adjective [Latin]1. Being many, or consisting of a great number of individuals; as a numerous army; a numerous body; a numerous people.2. Consisting of poetic numbers...

884

NUMEROUSLY

NUMEROUSLY, adverb In great numbers.

885

NUMEROUSNESS

NU'MEROUSNESS, noun1. The quality of being numerous or many; the quality of consisting of a great number of individuals; as the numerousness of an army or of an assembly.2. The ...

886

NUMISMATIC

NUMISMAT'IC, adjective [Latin, money, coin; Gr., to suppose, to sanction, law or custom.] Pertaining money, coin or medals.

887

NUMISMATICS

NUMISMAT'ICS, noun The science of coins and medals.

888

NUMISMATOLOGIST

NUMISMATOL'OGIST, noun One versed in the knowledge of coins and medals.

889

NUMISMATOLOGY

NUMISMATOL'OGY, noun [Gr., coin, and discourse.] The branch of historical science which treats of coins and medals.

890

NUMMARY

NUM'MARY, adjective [Latin, a coin.] Pertaining to coin or money.

891

NUMMULAR

NUM'MULAR, adjective [Latin, a coin.] Pertaining to coin or money.