2. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.

He was numbered with the transgressors.

Is. liii. 12.

3. To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a

series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or

numeral; as, to number the houses in a street, or the apartments in a

building.

4. To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the

army numbers fifty thousand.

Thy tears can not number the dead.

Campbell.

Numbering machine, a machine for printing consecutive numbers, as on

railway tickets, bank bills, etc.

Syn. -- To count; enumerate; calculate; tell.

Num"ber*er (?), n. One who numbers.

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