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Brewer's: Number of the Beast
“It is the number of a man, and his number is Six hundred threescore and six” (Rev. xiii. 18). This number has been applied to divers persons previously assumed to be Antichrist; as…Brewer's: Number Nip
The gnome king of the Giant Mountains. (Musaeus: Popular Tales.) “She was like one of those portly dowagers in Number Nip's society of metamorphose and turnips.” —LeFanu: The House in the…Brewer's: Number One
Oneself. To take care of number one, is to look after oneself, to seek one's own interest; to be selfish. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Number of the…Brewer's: Odd Numbers
Luck in odd numbers. A major chord consists of a fundamental or tonic, its major third, and its just fifth. According to the Pythagorean-system, “all nature is a harmony,” man is a full…Brewer's: Round Numbers
(In). In whole numbers, without regarding the fractions. Thus we say the population of the British Isles is forty millions in round numbers, and that of London four millions (1895). The…Brewer's: Amiable Numbers
(See Amicable, etc.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Amicable NumbersAmethyst A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z…Brewer's: Amicable Numbers
Numbers which are mutually equal to the sum of all their aliquot parts: as 220, 284. The aliquot parts of 220 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22 44, 55, 110, the sum of which is 284. Again,…Brewer's: Bernouilli's Numbers
or the properties of numbers first discovered by James Bernouilli, professor of mathematics at Basle (1654-1705). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Babylonian Numbers
Ne Babylonios tentaris numeros. Do not pry into futurity by astrological calculations and horoscopes. Do not consult fortunetellers. The Chaldæans were the most noted of astrologers. (…Brewer's: Apocalyptic Number
The mystic number 666. (Rev. xiii. 18.) (See Number of the Beast.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894ApocryphaAplomb A B C D E F G H I J K L M N…Trending
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