If a man can number the dust of the earth, then
shall thy seed also be numbered. --Gen. xiii.
16.
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.