#102.  Multitude. —­ N. multitude; numerous &c. adj.; numerosity,
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[obs3]; 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][obs3].

     #103.  Fewness. —­ N. fewness &c. adj.; paucity, small number; small
quantity &c. 32; rarity; infrequency &c. 137; handful, maniple; minority; exiguity.
     [Diminution of number] reduction; weeding &c. v.; elimination,
sarculation|, decimation; eradication. 
     V. be few &c. adj.
     render few &c. adj.; reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate,
cull, thin, decimate. 
     Adj. few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered,
spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent &c. 137; rari nantes[Latin]; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one’s fingers; reduced &c. v.; unrepeated[obs3]. 
     Adv. rarely, here and there.

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     #104.  Repetition. —­ N. repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping,
recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony; rhythm &c. 138; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy.
     chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello[obs3], burden of a song, refrain;
rehearsal; rechauffe[Fr], rifacimento[It], recapitulation.
     cuckoo &c. (imitation) 19; reverberation &c. 408; drumming &c. (roll)
407; renewal &c. (restoration) 660.
     twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition;