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ˈnumbering, vbl. n.
[f. number v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb, in various senses.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 1398 Aboute ierusalem þis noumbringe he bigan. 1382Wyclif 2 Chron. ii. 17 Than Salomon noumbride alle the men comlyngis..after the noumbrynge that Dauid, his fadir, noumbred. c1430Art Nombryng 1 And þis boke tretys þe Craft of Nombrynge, þe quych crafte is called also Algorym. 1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 83 Without other noumbryng or weying of the stuffes. 1557Recorde Whetst. b ij b, Measure is but the nombryng of the partes of lengthe, bredthe, or depthe. 1570J. Dee Math. Pref. *j b, His Continuall Numbryng, of all thinges, is the Conseruation of them in being. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 150 Dancing wenches, Hocus Pocusses, and other Anticks past my numbring inobled the ceremony. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. ii. vi. 65 At every 5 Parts make a Point, for the ready numbering of the Divisions. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. x. 280 The numbering of the stakes..commenced from the Chapeau⁓side of the glacier. 1885Manch. Exam. 6 Mar. 5/4 The scientific thoroughness which marks the numbering of the people in European countries.
attrib.1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing 267 The Numbring Rods of the Right Honourable John Lord Nepeer. 1860Knight's Eng. Cycl., Arts & Sci. V. 995 Numbering Machines... Their work is that of numbering, or enumerating, and registering the results in some conspicuous way. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1536/1 The numbering⁓apparatus. Ibid., Adjacent to the numbering-wheels.
So ˈnumbering ppl. a.
1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 77 That Numbring men, in all their euens and odds Do not forget, that only Vnitie. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. v. 50 For now hath Time made me his numbring clocke. |