c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 1398 (MED) Aboute ierusalem þis noumbringe he bigan.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Paralip. ii. 17 Salamon noumbrede alle þe men comelyngis..after þe noumbryng þat dauiþ his fadir noumbrede.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 121^v Tyme is noumbre and tale, noumbringe and tellinge.

?c1425 Crafte Nombrynge in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 3 (MED) Þis boke tretys þe Craft of Nombryng, þe quych crafte is called also Algorym.

a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 41^v (MED) In legiouns..many scoles and offices..nediþ to haue gouernours of lettrid kniȝtes þat ben kunnynge in numbringe of þe puple and castynge of acountes.

1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 83 Without other noumbryng or weying of the stuffes.

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. bii^v Measure is but the nombryng of the partes of lengthe, bredthe, or depthe.

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. *j^v His Continuall Numbryng, of all thinges, is the Conseruation of them in being.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 150 Dancing wenches, Hocus Pocusses, and other Anticks past my numbring inobled the ceremony.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. ii. vi. 65 At every 5 Parts make a Point, for the ready numbering of the Divisions.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. xxxix. 250 About eleven, according to the English numbering of the hours, I sent to know how the whole family did.

a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) i. 4 Many of the Volumes are wanting, as appears by the Numbering.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. x. 280 The numbering of the stakes..commenced from the Chapeau-side of the glacier.

1885 Manch. Examiner 6 Mar. 5/4 The scientific thoroughness which marks the numbering of the people in European countries.

1921 Autocar 29 Oct. 829/2 It is not..intended to deal with the numbering of the B roads until that of the A roads has been completed.

1991 Oxf. Econ. Papers 43 183 I use the 1975 rather than the 1986 notations and use primes on the equations' 1986 numberings for the corrected versions of them.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1536/1 The numbering-apparatus.

1860 C. Knight Eng. Cycl.: Arts & Sci. V. 995 Numbering Machines... Their work is that of numbering, or enumerating, and registering the results in some conspicuous way.

1990 Brit. Printer Nov. 59/3 (advt.) Atlantic Force numbering machines operate at high press speeds.

1667 W. Leybourn Art of Numbring i. 1 Rabdologie is the Art of Counting by Numbering Rods.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 267 The Numbring Rods of the Right Honourable John Lord Nepeer.

1983 Ann. Hist. Computing 5 280/1 The [Napier's] bones are occasionally referred to by other names such as numbering rods.

1938 T. E. Herbert & W. S. Procter Telephony (ed. 2) II. ix. 371 The trunk offering selector and the trunk offering final selector together cater for a 4-digit numbering scheme.

1995 Daily Tel. 7 Mar. 4/5 Under any numbering scheme, less than half the numbers it is theoretically possible to use can actually be used in practice.

1930 Manch. Guardian 16 Sept. 6/2 A certain section of the coloured population who apparently had a grievance about what they called a ‘numbering’ system put into operation by the National Maritime Board.

1987 National Geographic Mag. Sept. 331 Stelae..display a Maya-style bar-and-dot numbering system and calendar.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1536/1 Adjacent to the numbering-wheels.

1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas (1868) 77 That Numbring men, in all their euens and odds Do not forget, that only Vnitie.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. v. 50 For now hath time made me his numbring clocke. View more context for this quotation