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To outvote; to outnumber in votes given. [R.] Eikon Basilike.

To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuskript; to furnish with folios.

The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters used in numbering the pages; page number. Lowndes.

The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Four pair of stairs." Macaulay.

Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4.

A little before the last quarter of the moon in October and November, they swarm in vast numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding, and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives. An allied species inhabits the tropical Atlantic and swarms in June or July.

Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. -- n.

One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.

An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. Shak.

Having an evennumber of digits on the hands or the feet. Qwen.

Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections.

l, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass, or the like, regarded as going to make up, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. And kep…

doctrine that the purpose, act, and provisions of redemption are restricted to a limited number of the human race. See Calvinism.

A score. Partition of numbers (Math.), the resolution of integers into parts subject to given conditions. Brande & C.

A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided on questions of public policy. Win the noble Brutus to our party. Shak. The peace both parties want is like to last. Dryden.…

Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity. Hooker. Revelation denies it by the stern reserve, the paucity, and the incompleteness, of its communications. I. Taylor.

A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.