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An apparatus by which a number of copies of written matter, maps, plans, etc., can be made; -- called also hectograph.

Five; the number five in dice or cards.

A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.

hich, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter. A proclamation of Henry III., . . . doubtless circular throughout England. Hallam.

A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous. Hark! the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear. Pope.

ich it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward.

itical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.

Stiff or benumbed, as with cold. [Obs.]

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), Taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

A number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x.

One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates.

One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.

A building, or number of buildings, used by a college. "The gate of Trinity College." Macaulay.

That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse. "The colligation of facts." Whewell. Colligation is not always induction, but induction is…

A number of animals or plants living or growing together, beyond their usual range.

A number of ships so arranged as to follow one another in single or double file or in squadrons; -- in distinction from "line", where they are side by side.

The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups.