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charges 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.

A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl.

To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.

Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.

Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.

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.

Anticipating the best; not desponding; confident; full of hope; as, sanguine of success.

a thin blade, or plate, of steel, with a series of sharp teeth on the edge, which remove successive portions of the material by cutting and tearing.

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.

esembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successively, for making screws and other turned pieces from metal rods. -- Screw pine (Bot.), any plant of the endogenous genus Pandanus, of which there are about fifty species, natives of tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia…

Without succession of the seasons.

lane 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.

Of or pertaining to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication. "Classification . . . may be more or less serial." H. Spencer.

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

Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series. -- Se"ri*ate*ly, adv.