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  • noun

Synonyms for Numbers

nounthe fourth book of the Old Testament

nounan illegal daily lottery

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The amount of food for each species of course gives the extreme limit to which each can increase; but very frequently it is not the obtaining food, but the serving as prey to other animals, which determines the average numbers of a species.
Climate plays an important part in determining the average numbers of a species, and periodical seasons of extreme cold or drought, I believe to be the most effective of all checks.
The manager, naturally zealous in defence of the hotel, was a little hurt at the implied reflection cast on Number Fourteen.
Introduced to Number Fourteen, the doctor looked round him with a certain appearance of interest which was noticed by everyone present.
Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
But the chief reason for not carrying out his intention to enter the army lay in the vague idea that he was L'russe Besuhof who had the number of the beast, 666; that his part in the great affair of setting a limit to the power of the beast that spoke great and blasphemous things had been predestined from eternity, and that therefore he ought not to undertake anything, but wait for what was bound to come to pass.
For now with respect to the number just spoken of, it must be acknowledged that he would want the country of Babylonia for them, or some one like it, of an immeasurable extent, to support five thousand idle persons, besides a much greater number of women and servants.
The same principle prevails also in the choice of their senate; the manner of electing which is favourable also to an oligarchy; for all are obliged to vote for those who are senators of the first class, afterwards they vote for the same number out of the second, and then out of the third; but this compulsion to vote at the election of senators does not extend to the third and fourth classes and the first and second class only are obliged to vote for the fourth.
Another source of objection is derived from the small number of persons by whom a treaty may be made.
The remarks made in a former number, which have been alluded to in another part of this paper, will apply with conclusive force against the admission of the House of Representatives to a share in the formation of treaties.
The savages observing us, gave way; and we, being ignorant of their numbers, passed the river.
Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets.
In the case of the parts of a number, there is no common boundary at which they join.
As before, when Sing had threatened to filch his new possession from him, Number One held the girl with one hand while he met the attack of this new assailant with the other; but here was very different metal than had succumbed to him before.
'In a little community like ours, my dear,' said Fagin, who felt it necessary to qualify this position, 'we have a general number one, without considering me too as the same, and all the other young people.'