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   Cohort , n. [L. cohors, prop. an inclosure: cf. F. cohorte. See Court, n.]
   (Rom. Antiq.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.
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   Any band or body of warriors.
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   With him the cohort bright
   Of watchful cherubim.
   Milton.
   
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   (Bot.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class.
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   Series , n. [L. series, fr. serere, sertum, to join or bind together; cf. Gr.  to fasten, Skr. sarit thread. Cf. Assert, Desert a solitude, Exert, Insert, Seraglio.]
   A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
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   During some years his life a series of triumphs.
   Macaulay.
   
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   (Biol.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups.
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   ☞ Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species.
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   (Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists.
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   (Math.) An indefinite number of terms succeeding one another, each of which is derived from one or more of the preceding by a fixed law, called the law of the series; as, an arithmetical series; a geometrical series.
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   (Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; -- opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be in series.
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   (Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
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