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e sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

To proceed; to issue; to spring. Whence haply mention may arise Of something not unseasonable to ask. Milton.

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, Octo…

Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.

To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. [Obs.] Spenser.

In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison.…

Mildness; gentleness. The benignity or inclemency of the season. Spectator.

The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe. Bare benting times . . . may come. Dryden.

To season with spice, or with some spicy drug. Shak.

In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

The female salmon in the spawning season.

An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado. Give them a camisado in night season. Holinshed.

Flesh, fowl, etc., cut across, seasoned, and broiled on coals; a chop. [Obs.]

ion of one thing in the place of another; a difference; novelty; variety; as, a change of seasons. Our fathers did for change to France repair. Dryden. The ringing grooves of change. Tennyson.

Cheerfulness. [Obs.] There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.

The season of Christmas.

In American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.…

Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.

The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes.