Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MUL'TI-PLY, v.t. [L. multiplico; multus, many, and plico, to fold or double, Gr. πλεκω, W. plygu, Fr. plier, multiplier.]

1. To increase in number; to make more by natural generation or production, or by addition; as, to multiply men, horses or other animals; to multiply evils. I wilt multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt. Exod. vii. Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience. Ames.
2. In arithmetic, to increase any given number as many times as there are units in any other given number. Thus 7 x 8=56, that is, 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56.