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A Linnæan class of monoclinous or hermaphrodite plants, having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

Belonging to the class Polyandria; having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.

The possession of more that the normal number of digits.

Having many angles. Polygonal numbers, certain figurate numbers. See under Figurate.

A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.

Producing or bearing a great number; bringing forth many.

A figure by which a word is repeated in different forms, cases, numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."

A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.

The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

any inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. Heaven, yet populous, retains Number sufficient to possess her realms. Milton.

position (Arith.), the method of solving problems by proceeding with each of two assumed numbers, according to the conditions of the problem, and by comparing the difference of the results with those of the numbers, deducing the correction to be applied to one of them to obtain the true result. -- Guns of position (M…

which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions. In practice these theories and methods of the post- impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one another, so that a picture may be both cubist and futurist in charac…

race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham. If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity. Shak.

Hence, a feast given to a large number of persons, often accompanied by gifts. [Colloq., Northwestern America]

A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.

A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.

poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o. [Colloq.] Richardson.

To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart. [Certain] rays may predominate over the rest. Sir. I. Newton.

that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second choices together in nominated or elected.