He secured the list of subscribers, but learned nothing from it because the sums were identified by a numeral only, the clue to the numbers being the complete list, which I burned when I missed the other papers.

When they moved to town the change brought no loss of church interest; the Farwells merely transferred it entire to Delafield First Church ("First" being more a title than a numeral, since there was no second).

" "On the other hand, Eleven"Victor stressed the numeral as if to remind the Irishman that even a Member of Parliament for Ireland held no higher standing in his esteem than any other underling in his association of anonymous conspirators"even

Four! Five!" Her voice rose with each numeral; and Mr. Gibbs himself led the way downstairs, and, followed by his friends, slipped nimbly round the corner.

Number N. number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series.

Adj. numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate^, incommensurable. proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric^, differential, fluxional^, integral, totitive^. positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real; complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.

Adj. numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable, commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite.

Comp. of οὐδέ, vii, 17, and εἷς, numeral, irreg.

He insisted that figures had personality, just as people have, and it was a favourite method of his to nickname his friends and pupils according to a numeral.

It is also marked boldly with a Roman numeral showing the difference between the register-marks of the adjacent weights.

Priestley observes, "Some writers affect to transpose these words, and place the numeral adjective first; [as,] 'The first Henry.'

"Just as an and a has arisen out of the numeral one.

"One is a numeral adjective, the same as ten."Ib., p. 95.

"Many writers use a plural noun after the second of two numeral adjectives, thus, 'The first and second pages are torn.

Day's "Punctuation Reduced to a System," (London, 1847,) we have the following obscure and questionable RULE: "Besides denoting a grammatical pause, the full point is used to mark contractions, and is requisite after every abbreviated word, as well as after numeral letters.

As for the period "after numeral letters," if they really needed it at all, they would need it severally, as do the abbreviations; but there are none of them, which do not uniformly dispense with it, when not final to the number; and they may as well dispense with it, in like manner, whenever they are not final to the sentence.

6.Arabic figures used as ordinals, or used for the numeral adverbs, first, or firstly, secondly, thirdly, &c., are very commonly pointed with the period, even where the pause required after them is less than a full stop; as, "We shall consider these words, 1. as expressing resolution; and 2. as expressing futurity.

"Just as AN and A have arisen out of the numeral ONE."Fowler cor.

When a numeral and a noun are united to form a compound adjective, we commonly, if not always, use the latter in its primitive or singular form: as, "A twopenny toy,""a twofold error,""three-coat plastering," say, "a twofoot rule,""a tenfoot pole;" which phrases are right; while Clark's are not only unusual, but unanalogical, ungrammatical.

As it is probable that not a few instances of the employment of the Arabic numeral characters of an earlier date than that at Heathfield are to be met with in different parts of the country, will you permit me to make use of your paper to inquire whether any such are known to any of your readers, and if they will be so obliging as to communicate their knowledge through the medium of your columns?

Mithras, the principal divinity in these rites, who took the place of the Hebrew Jehovah, and represented the sun, had this peculiarity in his namethat the numeral value of the letters of which it was composed amounted to precisely 365, the number of days which constitute a revolution of the earth around the sun, or, as they then supposed, of the sun around the earth.

It will be impossible, however, to develop this doctrine, in its entire extent, on the present occasion, for the numeral symbolism of Masonry would itself constitute materials for an ample essay.

[Footnote: The common reading is "twelve hundred and fifty," but since it seems incredible that the Pretorians should have obtained less, instead of more, than the ordinary soldiers, Lange with much reason proposed the change carried out above,a change which requires the insertion (or restitution) of but one Greek numeral-letter that might easily have been overlooked by some copyist.]

The numeral four hundred was employed, like the Greek "myriad," to express vaguely any extraordinary number.

Tiffles produced the letter, and pointed out the numeral in question.