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relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy. The several season…

Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20. -- Sea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Sea"son*a*bly, adv.

A seasoning. [Obs.] outh.

Of or pertaining to the seasons. Seasonal dimorphism (Zoöl.), the condition of having two distinct varieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.

One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.

The act or process by which anything is seasoned.

Without succession of the seasons.

Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant.

To season too highly.

To make unseasoned; to deprive of seasoning.

Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late; as, he called at an unseasonable hour; unseasonable advice; unseasonable frosts; unseasonable food. -- Un*sea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*sea"son*a*bly, adv.

Not seasoned.

Wonder; astonishment. [Obs.] Season your admiration for a while. Shak.

cluding the four Sundays before Christmas. Advent Sunday (Eccl.), the first Sunday in the season of Advent, being always the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew (Now. 30). Shipley.

Relating to the season of advent. Sanderson.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

ed, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.

Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.

Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable. A tale extremely apropos. Pope.