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To crowd, press, or drive together. [Obs.] Bacon.

Any fish of the family Serranidæ, which includes the striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes. -- a. (Zoöl.)

Beset with teeth pointing forwards or upwards; as, serrate leaves. Doubly serrate, having small serratures upon the large ones, as the leaves of the elm. -- Serrate-ciliate, having fine hairs, like the eyelashes, on the serratures; -- said of a leaf. -- Serrate-dentate, having the serratures toothed.…

Condition of being serrate; formation in the shape of a saw.

Having a toothed bill, like that of a toucan.

The ivory gull (Larus eburneus).

One of the teeth in a serrated edge; a serration.

Covered with fine silky down.

Having serrated antenn

Crowded; compact; dense; pressed together. Nor seemed it to relax their serried files. Milton.

A division of Hymenoptera comprising the sawflies.

Same as Lamellirostres.

Like the teeth off a saw; jagged. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The red-breasted merganser.

Finely serrate; having very minute teeth.

One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.

To crowd; to press together.

Doubly serrate, or having the serratures serrate, as in some leaves.

Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.

A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.