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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.

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.

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

ding or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events. During some years his life a series of triumphs. Macaulay.

to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance. It will settle the wavering, and confirm the doubtful. Swift.

One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.

a common term limited to an individual by means of a singular sign. Whately. -- Singular succession (Civil Law), division among individual successors, as distinguished from universal succession, by which an estate descended in intestacy to the heirs in mass. -- Singular term (Logic), a term which represents or stands…

n. -- Sinister aspect (Astrol.), an appearance of two planets happening according to the succession of the signs, as Saturn in Aries, and Mars in the same degree of Gemini. -- Sinister base, Sinister chief. See under Escutcheon.

all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte.

by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.

A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves. Bacon.

That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand. "The stream of beneficence." Atterbury. "The stream of emigration." Macaulay.

or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments…

The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.

The state of being subalternate; succession of turns; subordination.

Following in a train or succession. [R.]