Chapter Words Expressing Abstract Relations of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

Sexpartite.

Octofid.

Decimation.

(Verb). To decimate.

(Adjectives). Decimal, tenth, tithe.

Duodecimal, twelfth.

Sexagesimal, sexagenary.

Hundredth, centesimal.

Millesimal, etc.

3°. Indeterminate Number

• More than one.

Plurality (Substantives), a number, a certain number, a round number.

(Adjectives). Plural, more than one, upwards of, some, a few, one or two, two or three, certain, someone, somebody.

(Adverb). Etcetera.

• Zero (Substantives), nothing 4, naught, cipher, a solitude, a desert.

(Adjectives). None, not one, not any, nemo, nobody, not a soul.

• Multitude (Substantives), numerousness, numerosity, numerality, multiplicity, majority, profusion, legion, host, a great or large number, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy, populousness 72, a hundred, thousand, myriad, million, etc.

A shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, teem, fry, nest, crowd, etc. 72.

Increase of number, multiplication.

(Verbs). To be numerous, etc., to swarm, teem, crowd, come thick upon, outnumber, multiply, to people.

(Phrase). To swarm like locusts or bees.

(Adjectives). Many, several, sundry, divers, various, a great many, very many, full many, ever so many, no end, numerous, profuse, manifold, multiplied, multitudinous, multiple, multinomial, endless 105, teeming, populous, peopled.

Frequent, repeated, reiterated, outnumbering, thick, crowding, crowded, thick-coming, many more.

(Phrases). Thick as hops; thick as hail; thick as leaves in Vallombrosa; plentiful as blackberries; cum multis aliis; in profusion; and what not? and Heaven knows what; numerous as the stars in the firmament; as the sands on the sea-shore; as the hairs on the head; their name is "Legion."

• Fewness (Substantives), paucity, a small number, minority, handful, scantiness, rareness, rarity, thinness.

Diminution of number, reduction, weeding, elimination, thinning.