Such is the loss of Spain; let us now compute the profit of Britain.

It is difficult to compute the number of mummies that have been found in Egypt.

If we suppose that the cattle in that age, from the defects in husbandry, were not so large as they are at present in England, we may compute that money was then near ten times of greater value.

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

We have not got statistics of the seamen of the whole British Empire for this period, but we have figures which will enable us to compute the number with sufficient accuracy for the purpose in hand.

If we know the quantity of each description of stores that a ship can carry, and if we estimate the progressive consumption, we can compute, approximately but accurately enough for practical purposes, the time at which replenishment would be necessary and to what amount it should be made up.

Thus miserably erroneous are the estimated distances in old navigators, who could only compute by the dead reckoning, or the log.

Every one who is acquainted with simple arithmetic, can compute the terminal pressure of steam in a cylinder, when he knows the initial pressure and the point at which the steam is cut off; and he can also find, by the same process, any pressure intermediate between the first and the last.

Tezcatlipocafor the two of the name blend rapidly into one as the myth progresseswas wise beyond compute; he knew all thoughts and hearts, could see to all places, and was distinguished for power and forethought.

Slavery, not the law of God, practically determines whether husbands shall dwell with their wives: and an amount of anguish, which God alone can compute, testifies that slavery has thus determined, times without number, that husbands shall not dwell with their wives.

Compute the value of a MAN in money!

Compute the value of a MAN in money!

Compute the value of a MAN in money!

" When the pack'd audience from their posts retir'd, And Julius in a general hiss expir'd, Sage Booth to Cibber cried, "Compute your gains; These Egypt dogs, and their old dowdy queens, But ill requite these habits and these scenes!

Let ingenuity here keep her seat, For works minute, or works immensely great, We to thy native sons the gift impart, Of bright invention, and of matchless art, Skill'd to devise, to reason, to compute, Quick to suggest, and prompt to execute; What some have but conceiv'd, do thou amend, Mature and perfect, to some noble end.

" Surely, "to cast up" is to cast somehow, though the meaning of the phrase may be "to compute."

No doubt, the severance of the entail, if made at all, would be made in accordance with the young man's wishes, and on certain terms which should be declared to be just by persons able to compute the value of such rights.

KENNEDY, JAMES. Learning to compute.

POTTER, MARY A. Learning to compute.

Sue Schoolfield Gravely (E of L. D. Schoolfield) & Josephine B. Timberlake (A); 8Dec67; R424122. SCHORLING, MARIE O. Learning to compute.

SCHORLING, RALEIGH. Learning to compute.

Learning to compute.

This is like a general pardon, with such exceptions as make it useless, if we compute it, &c. Page lxxxvii.

He must have regretted that the discovery was not made early enough to save him a vast amount of labour in computations, but he managed to find time to compute some logarithm tables for himself, though he does not seem to have understood quite what Napier had done, and though with his usual honesty he gave full credit to the Scottish baron for his invention.

The legacy is spoken of in the letter as small, because English people compute property so differently from ourselves.