Pope.
8. (Gram.) The distinction of objects, as one, or more than one (in
some languages, as one, or two, or more than two), expressed (usually)
by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and
the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the
objects denoted or referred to by the word as one, or as more than one.
9. (Math.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of
the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of
being expressed by figures; numerical value.
Abstract number, Abundant number, Cardinal number, etc. See under
Abstract, Abundant, etc. -- In numbers, in numbered parts; as, a book
published in numbers.
Num"ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Numbered (?); p. pr & vb. n. Numbering.]
[OE. nombren, noumbren, F. nombrer, fr. L. numerare, numeratum. See
Number, n.]