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In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc., producing an agreeable effect, as in music poetry, the dance, or the like.

A festival procession. [Obs.] When there any riding was in Cheap. Chaucer.

A succession of confused or nonsencial statements; foolish talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. De Quincey.

tely precede Ascension Day; -- so called as being days on which the people, walking in procession, sang litanies of special supplication. -- Rogation flower (Bot.), a European species of milkwort (Polygala vulgaris); -- so called from its former use for garlands in Rogation week. Dr. Prior. -- Rogation week, the seco…

s self, to wallow. -- To roll the eye, to direct its axis hither and thither in quick succession. -- To roll one's r's, to utter the letter r with a trill. [Colloq.]

Bourne. -- Rolling fire (Mil.), a discharge of firearms by soldiers in line, in quick succession, and in the order in which they stand. -- Rolling friction, that resistance to motion experienced by one body rolling upon another which arises from the roughness or other quality of the surfaces in contact. -- Rolling m…

rges and substitutions. -- Rotation of crops, the practices of cultivating an orderly succession of different crops on the same land.

Going in a circle; following in rotation or succession; as, rotatory assembles. Burke.

To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate. [Obs.] Z. Grey.

Rotation, as in office; succession. Holyday.

To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. Shak. Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. Shak.

erysipelas; -- popularly so called because it was supposed to have been cured by the intercession of Saint Anthony. -- Saint Anthony's nut (Bot.), the groundnut (Bunium flexuosum); -- so called because swine feed on it, and St. Anthony was once a swineherd. Dr. Prior. -- Saint Anthony's turnip (Bot.), the bulbous cro…

Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being. There is a certain scale of duties . . . which for want of studying in right order, all the world is in confusion. Milton.

Without succession of the seasons.

ceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called.

Retirement; retreat; secession. [Obs.] R. H. More.

e passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement. How art thou a king But by fair sequence and succession Shak. Sequence and series of the seasons of the year. Bacon.

A publication appearing in a series or succession of part; a tale, or other writing, published in successive numbers of a periodical.

The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence. H. Spenser.