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Following :: Following (a.) Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was held on the following day..

Alternately :: Alternately (adv.) In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office..

Prime :: Prime (a.) The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds..

Alternate :: Alternate (a.) Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal..

Sequel :: Sequel (n.) That which follows; a succeeding part; continuation; as, the sequel of a man's advantures or history..

Consecutive :: Consecutive (a.) Following as a consequence or result; actually or logically dependent; consequential; succeeding.

Hydra :: Hydra (n.) A serpent or monster in the lake or marsh of Lerna, in the Peloponnesus, represented as having many heads, one of which, when cut off, was immediately succeeded by two others, unless the wound was cauterized. It was slain by Hercules. Hence, a terrible monster..

Succedaneum :: Succedaneum (n.) One who, or that which, succeeds to the place of another; that which is used for something else; a substitute.

Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To fall heir to; to inherit.

Sequent :: Sequent (a.) Following; succeeding; in continuance.

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

Succeedant :: Succeed (v. i.) To go under cover.

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..

Series :: Series (n.) 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..

Series :: Series (n.) 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..

Climax :: Climax (v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.

Childe :: Childe (n.) A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland..

Megrim :: Megrim (n.) A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy..

Succeed :: Succeed (v. i.) To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve..

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