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Series. [Obs.]

A large South American bird (Dicholophus, or Cariama cristata) related to the cranes. It is often domesticated. Called also cariama.

ted 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.

A series-wound dynamo.

A series-wound motor.

The turns in a series circuit.

A winding in which the armature coil and the field-magnet coil are in series with the external circuits; -- opposed to shunt winding. --Se"ries-wound`, a.

Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.

Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.

Pastry. Sterne.

The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.

the paraffin hydrocarbons, but also unsaturated compounds, as the ethylene and acetylene series.

One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.

A hydrocarbon radical, C5H11, of the paraffine series found in amyl alcohol or fusel oil, etc.

One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

ertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether. Amylic alcohol (Chem.), one of the series of alcohols, a transparent, colorless liquid, having a peculiar odor. It is the hydroxide of amyl. -- Amylic fermentation (Chem.), a process of fermentation in starch or sugar in which amylic alcohol is produced. Gregory.…

One of a series of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.