Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: NUM'BERS – NUM'MU-LITE
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NUM'BERS, n.
The title of the fourth book of the Pentateuch.
NUMB'ING, ppr. [num'ming.]
Making torpid.
NUM'BLES, n. [Fr. nombles.]
The entrails of a deer. Bailey.
NUMB'NESS, 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.
NU'MER-A-BLE, a. [L. numerabilis.]
That may be numbered or counted.
NU'MER-AL, a. [Fr.; L. numeralis.]
- Pertaining to number; consisting of number. The dependence of a long train of numeral progressions. Locke.
- Expressing number; representing number; standing as a substitute for figures; as, numeral letters; as X for 10; L for fifty; C for 100; D for 500; M for 1000.
- Expressing numbers; as, numeral characters. The figures we now use to express numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. They are said to be of Arabian origin; but the Arabians might have received them from India. This is a controverted question.
NU'MER-AL-LY, adv.
According to number; in number.
NU'MER-A-RY, a.
Belonging to a certain number. A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon. Ayliffe.
NU'MER-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.]
- 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.
- 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.
- One that numbers.
- 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 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.]
- Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as, numerical algebra; numerical characters.
- Numerical difference, is that by which one individual is distinguished from another. The same numerical body is identically the same.
NU-MER'IC-AL-LY, adv.
- In numbers; as, parts of a thing numerically expressed.
- 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-OS'I-TY, n.
The state of being numerous. [Not used.] Brown.
NU'MER-OUS, a. [L. numerosus.]
- Being many, or consisting of a great number of individuals; as, a numerous army; a numerous body; a numerous people.
- 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.
NU'MER-OUS-LY, adv.
In or with great numbers; as, a meeting numerously attended.
NU'MER-OUS-NESS, n.
- 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.
- The quality of consisting of poetic numbers; melodiousness; musicalness, Encyc.
NU-MIS-MAT'IC, a. [L. numisma, money, coin; Gr. νομισμα, from νομιζω, to suppose, to sanction, from νομος, law or custom.]
Pertaining to money, coin or medals.
NU-MIS-MAT'ICS, n.
The science of coins and medals.
One versed in the knowledge of coins and medals.
NU-MIS-MA-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. νομισμα, coin, and λογος, discourse.]
The branch of historical science which treats of coins and medals.
NUM'MU-LAR, a. [L. nummus, a coin.]
Pertaining to coin or money. Dict.
NUM'MU-LITE, n. [L. nummus, money, from its resemblance to coin.]
Fossil remains of a chambered shell of a flattened form, formerly mistaken for money. Ed. Encyc.