Defn: Numbness. [Obs.] Wiseman.
NUMBER
Num"ber, n. Etym: [OE. nombre, F. nombre, L. numerus; akin to Gr.
Numb, Nomad, and cf. Numerate, Numero, Numerous.]
1. That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
2. A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many. Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers. Addison.
3. A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
4. Numerousness; multitude. Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage. Bacon.
5. The state or quality of being numerable or countable. Of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds out of number. 2 Esdras iii. 7.
6. Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
7. That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; — chiefly used in the plural. I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. Pope.
8. (Gram.)