Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NUMBER-ER, n.

One that numbers.

NUMBER-FUL, a.

Many in number; numerous.

NUM'BER-ING, ppr.

Counting; ascertaining the units of a multitude or collection.

NUMBER-LESS, a.

That can not be counted; innumerable. Milton.

NUMBERS, n.

The title of the fourth book of the Pentateuch.

NUMBING, ppr. num'ming.

Making torpid.

NUMBLES, n. [Fr. nombks.]

The entrails of a deer. Bade.

NUMBNESS, n. num'ness.

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

NUMER-AL, a. [Fr.; L. tounteralis.]

1. Pertaining to number; consisting of number. The dependence of a long train of numeral progressions. Locke.
2. Expressing number; representing number; standing as a substitute for figures; as, numeral letters; as X for 10; I. for fifty; C for 100; D for 500; 31 for 1000.
3. Expressing numbers; as, numeral characters. The figures we now use to express numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, O. They are said to be of Arabian origin; but the Arabians might have received them from India. This is a controverted question.

NUMER-A-L'LE, a. [L. numerabilis.]

That may be numbered or counted.

NUMER-ALLY, adv.

According to number; in number.

NUMER-A-RY, a.

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

NUMER-ATE, v.t.

To count or reckon in numbers; to calculate. [But enumerate is generally used.] Lancaster.

NU'MER-A-TED, pp.

Reckoned in numbers; calculated.

NU-MER-A'TION, n. [L. numeratio.]

1. 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. Locke.
2. In arithmetic, notation; the art of expressing in characters any number proposed in words, or of expressing in words any number proposed in characters; the act or art of writing or reading numbers. Thus we write 1000, for thousand, and 50, we read fifty.

NU'MER-A-TOR, n.

1. One that numbers.
2. In arithmetic, the number in vulgar fractions which shows bow many parts of a unit are taken. Thus when a unit is divided into 9 parts, and we take 5, we express it thus, that is, five ninths; 5 being the numerator, and 9 the denominator.

NU-MER'IC, or NU-MER'IC-AL, a. [It. numerico; Fr. numerique; from L numerus, number.]

1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as, numerical algebra; numerical characters.
2. Numerical difference, is that by which one individual is distinguished from another. The same numerical body is identically the same.

NU-MERIC-AL-LY, adv.

1. 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 different.

NU'MER-IST, n.

One that deals in numbers. [Not used.] Brown.

NU-MER-OSI-TY, n.

The state of being numerous. [Nat used.] Brown.

NU'MER-OUS, a. [L. nunterants.]

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; melodious; musical. In prose, a style becomes numerous by the alternate disposition or intermixture of long and short syllables, or of long and short words; or by a judicious selection and disposition of smooth flowing words, and by closing the periods with important or well sounding words. Encyc.

NUMER-OUS-LY, adv.

In or with great numbers; as, a meeting numerously attended.

NU'MER-OUS-NESS, n.

1. 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 quality of consisting of poetic numbers; melodiousness; musicalness, Encyc.

NU-MIS-MAT'IC, a. [L. numisma, money, coin; Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, to suppose, to sanction, from {foreign}, law or custom.]

Pertaining to money, coin or medals.

NU-MIS-MA-T'ICS, n.

The science of coins and medals.