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One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body.

Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations.

Of or pertaining to the number nine.

Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary. [R.] The triple and novene division ran throughout. Milman.

Capable of being numbered or counted.

Of or pertaining to number; consisting of number or numerals. A long train of numeral progressions. Locke.

According to number; in number; numerically.

Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a collection or body. A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon. Ayliffe.

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.

One who numbers.

Any number, proper or improper fraction, or incommensurable ratio. The term also includes any imaginary expression like m + nsq. root-1, where m and n are real numerics.

Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; expressed by numbers, and not letters; as, numerical characters; a numerical equation; a numerical statement.

In a numerical manner; in numbers; with respect to number, or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically different.

One who deals in numbers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Number; -- often abbrev. No.

Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army. Such and so numerous was their chivalry. Milton.

us of extinct Tertiary Foraminifera, having a thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers arranged spirally.

recan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. dufe; E. toft, tuft; tone, tune; number, F. nombre. The letter o has several vowel sounds, the principal of which are its long sound, as in bone, its short sound, as in nod, and the sounds heard in the words orb, son, do (feod), and wolf (book). In connection wit…

the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

Of or pertaining to the number eight. Dr. H. More.