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tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine.
arithmetician, calculator, abacist.

V. number, count, tell; call -, run- over, take an account
of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum –,
cast- up; tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute,
add, subtract, multiply, divide, extract roots.

check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock; affix numbers to, page.

amount - come- to.

Adj. numer-al, -ical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensur-able, -ate; incommensur-able, -ate.

86. LIST.-N. list, catalogue, inventory, schedule; register &c. (record) 551; account; bill, of costs; syllabus; terrier, tally, file; calendar, index, table, contents; book, ledger; synopsis, catalogue raisonné; tableau; invoice, bill of lading; prospectus, programme; bill of fare, menu, carte; score, census, statistics, returns; Red -, Blue -, Domesday- book; cadastre; directory, gazetteer.

roll; check, chequer bead- roll; muster roll, book
roster, panel; cartulary, diptych.
Adj. cadastral.

2°. DETERMINATE NUMBER.

87. UNITY.-N. unity; oneness &c. adj.; individuality; solitude &c. (seclusion) 893; isolation &c. (disjunction) 44; unification &c. 48. one, unit, ace; individual; none else, no other.

V. be -one, alone &c. adj.; dine with Duke Humphrey. isolate &c. (disjoin) 44. render one; unite &c. (join) 43, (combine) 48.

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88. ACCOMPANIMENT. companiment; adjunct &c. 39; context.

coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship; part-, copart-nership; coefficiency.

concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, attendant, fellow, associate, consort, spouse, colleague; part-, copart-ner; satellite, hanger on, shadow; escort, cortège.

Adj. one, sole, single, solitary; individual, apart, alone; kithless. V. accompany, coexist, attend; un-accompanied, -attended; hang-, wait- on; go hand in hand solus, single-handed; singular, odd, with; synchronize &c. 120; bear unique, unrepeated, azygous, first, keep- company; row in the same and last; isolated &c. (disjoined) boat; bring in its train, associate 44; insular. -couple- with.

lone; lone-ly, some; desolate, dreary.

Adj. accompanying &c. v.; concomitant, fellow, twin, joint; asin-secable, -severable, -discerp-sociated, coupled- with; accestible; compact, irresolvable.

Adv. singly &c. adj.; alone, by itself, per se, only, apart, in the

sory, attendant, obligato.

Adv. with, withal; together –, along, in company- with; hand in

singular number, in the abstract; one by one, at a time; simply; one and a half, sesqui-.

Phr. natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.

hand, side by side; cheek by -jowl, - jole; arm in arm; there-, herewith; and &c. (addition) 37. together, in a body, collectively.

89. DUALITY.-N. dual-ity, -ism; duplicity; bi-plicity, -formity; polarity.

two, deuce, couple, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke, conjugation.

V. [unite in pairs] pair, couple, bracket, yoke; conduplicate. Adj. two, twain; dual, -istic; binary, binomial; twin, biparous; dyadic; conduplicate; duplex &c. 90; tête-à-tête. coupled &c. v.; conjugate.

both, the one and the other.

90. DUPLICATION.-N. duplica-91. [Division into two parts.] tion; doubling &c. v.; gemi-, in- BISECTION.-N. bi-section, partigemi-nation; reduplication; itera- tion; di-, subdi-chotomy; halving tion &c. (repetition) 104; renewal. &c. v.; dimidiation. V. double; re-double, -duplicate; geminate; repeat &c. 104; renew &c. 660.

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bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication; fork, prong; fold.

half, moiety.

V. bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave, dimidiate, dichotomize,

go halves, divide with. separate, fork, bifurcate; branch -off, out; ramify.

Adj. bisected &c.

.; cloven, cleft; bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid; bifur-cous, -cate, -cated; semi-, demi-, hemi-.

92. TRIALITY.-N. triality, trinity.*

three, triad, triplet, trey, trio, ternion, trinomial, leash.
third power, cube.

Adj. three; tri-form, -nal, -nomial; tertiary; triune.
93. TRIPLICATION.-N. tripli-ca-
tion, -city; trebleness, trine.

V. treble, triple, triplicate, cube. Adj. treble, triple; tern, -ary; triplicate, threefold, trilogistic; third.

Adv. three times, - fold; thrice, in the third place, thirdly; trebly &c. adj.

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94. [Division into three parts.] TRISECTION.-N. tri-section, -partition, -chotomy; third, - part.

V. trisect, divide into three parts.

Adj. trifid; trisected &c. v. ; tripartite, -chotomous, -sulcate.

Trinity is hardly ever used except in a theological sense; see Deity,

95. QUATERNITY.-N. quaternity, four, tetrad, quartet, quaternion, square, quadrature, quarter.

V. reduce to a square, square.

Adj. four; quat-ernary, -ernal; quadratic; quartile, tetractic.

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98. FIVE, &c.-N. five, cinque, quint, quincunx; six, half-a-dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; ten, decade; eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long-, baker'sdozen.

97. [Division into four parts.] QUADRISECTION.-N. quadri-section, partition; quartering &c. v.; fourth; quart, -er, -ern; farthing (i. e. fourthing).

V. quarter, divide into four parts.

Adj. quartered &c. v.; quadrifid, -partite.

99. QUINQUESECTION, &C.-N. division by -five &c. 98; quinquesection &c.; decimation; fifth &c. V. decimate.

Adj. quinque-fid, -partite; quinquarticular; octifid; decimal, twenty, score; twenty-four, four tenth, tithe; duodecimal, twelfth; and twenty, two dozen; twenty-sexa-gesimal, -genary; hundredth, five, five and twenty, quarter of a centesimal; millesimal &c. hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half a hundred; sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four score; ninety, four score and ten.

hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century; hundred weight, cwt; one hundred and forty-four, gross.

thousand, chiliad; myriad, ten thousand; lac, one hundred thousand, plum; million; thousand million, milliard.

billion, trillion &c.

V. centuriate.

Adj. five, quinary, quintuple; fifth; senary, sextuple; sixth; seventh; octuple; eighth; ninefold, ninth; tenfold, decimal, denary, decuple, tenth; eleventh; duo-denary, -denal; twelfth; in one's 'teens, thirteenth.

vices-, viges-imal; twentieth; twenty-fourth &c. n.

cent-uple, -uplicate, -ennial, -enary, urial; secular, hundredth; thousandth, &c.

100a. [Less than one.] FRACTION.-N. fraction, fractional part; part &c. 51.

3°. INDETERMINATE NUMBER 100. [More than one.] PLURALITY.-N. plurality; a -number, certain number; one or two, two or three &c.; a few, several; multitude &c. 102.

Adj. plural, more than one, up

101. ZERO.-N. zero, nothing; naught, nought; cipher, none.

wards of, some, certain; not -alone | nobody; not a soul; âme qui vive; &c. 87. absence &c. 187; unsubstantiality &c. 4.

Adv. et cætera, &c., etc. Phr. non deficit alter.

102. MULTITUDE.-N. multitude; numerousness &c. adj.; numerosity, -ality; multiplicity; profusion &c. (plenty) 639; legion, host; great, large-, round enormous- number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd &c. (assemblage) 72; lots; all the world and his wife. [Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication, multiple.

V. be -numerous &c. adj.; Swarm -, teem -, creep with; crowd, swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like locusts, - bees.

Adj. not -one, - any.

103. FEWNESS.-N. fewness &c. adj.; paucity, small number; small quantity &c. 32; rarity; infrequency &c. 137; handful; maniple; minority.

[Diminution of number] reduction; weeding &c. v.; elimination, sarculation, decimation. V. be few &c. adj.

render few &c. adj.; reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate, thin, decimate.

Adj. few; scant, -y; thin, rare, thinly scattered, few and far between; infrequent &c. 137; rari nantes; hardly-, scarcely- any; to be counted on one's fingers; reduced &c. v.; unrepeated. Adv. here and there.

Adj. many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; a -hundred, thousand, - myriad, - million, thousand and one; some, -ten or a dozen, forty or fifty, &c.; half a dozen,

hundred

&c.; very, full-, ever so- many; numer-ous, -ose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinomial, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded. thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no end of, - to; cum multis aliis; thick as -hops, - hail; plenty as blackberries; numerous as the -stars in the firmament, - sands on the sea-shore, hairs on the head; and -what not, heaven knows what; endless &c. (infinite) 105.

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Phr. their name is "Legion."

104. REPETITION.-N. repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run; batto-, tauto-logy; monotony, tautophony; rhythm &c. 138.

chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain;
rehearsal; réchauffé, rifacimento, recapitulation.

cuckoo &c. (imitation) 19; reverberation &c. 408; drumming
&c. (roll) 407; renewal &c. (restoration) 660.
twice-told tale; old story, - song; second
reappearance, reproduction; periodicity &c. 138.

- edition;

new-,

V. repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, re-echo, drum,

harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble.

recur, revert, return, reappear; renew &c. (restore) 660

rehearse; do, say- over again; ring the changes on; harp on the same string; din -, drum- in the ear; conjugate in all its moods, tenses and inflections, begin again, go over the same ground, go the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate, reword.

Adj. repeated &c. v.; repetition-al, -ary; recur-rent, -ring; ever recurring, thick coming; frequent, incessant.

monotonous, harping, iterative; mocking, chiming; retold; afore-said, -named; above-mentioned, said; habitual &c. 613; another.

Adv. repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more; ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo.

again and again; over and over, - again; many times over, time after time, year after year; day by day &c.; many-, several, a number of- times; many-, full many- a time; frequently &c. 136.

Phr. ecce iterum Crispinus, toujours perdrix, cut and come again; "to-morrow and to-morrow."

105. INFINITY.-N. infini-ty, -tude, -teness &c. adj.; perpetuity &c. 112.

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V. be -infinite &c. adj.; know have-no-limits, - bounds; go on for ever.

Adj. infinite; immense; number-, count-, sum-, measureless; innumer-, immeasur-, incalcul-, illimit-, intermin-, unfathom-, unapproach-able; exhaustless, indefinite; without -number, measure, limit, - end; incomprehensible; limit-, end-, bound-, term-less; un-told, -numbered, -measured, -bounded, -limited; illimited; perpetual &c. 112. Ado. infinitely &c. adj.; ad infinitum.

SECTION VI. TIME.

1o. ABSOLUTE TIME.

106. TIME.-N. time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, period; course &c. 109.

intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency; intervention, mission, mittence, -regnum, -lude; respite,

era, epoch; time of life, age, year, date; decade &c. (period) 108; moment, &c. (instant) 113.

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glass -, -, ravages, whirligig, noiseless foot- of time; scythe. V. continue, last, endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse &c. 109.

take, take up -,

fill -, occupy- time.

* A term introduced by Bishop Wilkins.

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