numerality; multiplicity; profusion &c (plenty) 639; legion, host;
great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity,
numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal,
swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive,
brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd &c (assemblage) 72; lots; all
in the world and his wife.
[Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication,
multiple.
V. be numerous &c adj.; swarm with, teem with, creep with; crowd,
swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like
locusts, swarm like bees.
Adj. many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a
hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a
thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty &c; half a
dozen, half a hundred &c; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous;
numerose†; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous,
multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick,
studded; galore.
thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no
end of, no end to; cum multis aliis [Lat.]; thick as hops, thick as
hail; plenty as blackberries; numerous as the stars in the firmament,
numerous as the sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the
head; and what not, and heaven knows what; endless &c (infinite) 105.
Phr. their name is 'legion'; acervatim [Lat.]; en foule [Fr.]; many-
headed multitude [Sidney]; numerous as glittering gems of morning dew
[Young]; vel prece vel pretio [Lat.].