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Mandeville, Travels, p. 64. 8. A numeral of a series affixed in regular order to a series of things: as, the number of a house in a street.-9. One of a series of things distinguished by consecutive numerals: used especially of serial publications. There was a number in the hawker's collection called Cons crits Français, which may rank among the most di uasive war-lyrics on record. R. L. Stevens on , Inland Voyage, p. 137. IMG:content-1499.png:[blocks in formation] Perfect, prime, rational, ultrabernoullian, etc., numbers. See the adjectives. - Pythagorean num- bers. See Pythagorean. - Theory of numbers, the doc- trine of the divisibility of numbers. To lose the num- ber of one's me . See lose1 . number (number), v. t . [ nombren , noum- bren, nowmbren, nowmeren , brer , nombrer , F. nombrer = Pr. numerar , num- brar, nombrar = Sp. Pg. numerar = It. nume- rare , numerare , number, count, numerus , a number: see number , n .] 1. To count; reck- individuals in; enumerate. and their relations. The knowledge of number as such is gained by means of a series of perceptions and an exercise of the powers of comparison and abstraction. J. Sully , Outlines of Psychol., p. 192. 11. Numerousne ; the character of being a large collection: used in this sense both in the singular and in the plural.