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Suint :: Suingly (adv.) In succession; afterwards.

String :: String (n.) A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged; a succession; a concatenation; a chain; as, a string of shells or beads; a string of dried apples; a string of houses; a string of arguments..

Twill :: Twill (v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving..

Seriate :: Seriate (a.) Arranged in a series or succession; pertaining to a series.

Millionth :: Millionth (a.) Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.

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..

Coparcenary :: Coparcenary (n.) Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right of succession to an inheritance.

Harmony :: Harmony (n.) A succession of chords according to the rules of progression and modulation.

Figure :: Figure (n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression..

Melody :: Melody (n.) A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.

Shamble :: Shamble (n.) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level..

Inverse :: Inverse (a.) Opposite in nature and effect; -- said with reference to any two operations, which, when both are performed in succession upon any quantity, reproduce that quantity; as, multiplication is the inverse operation to division. The symbol of an inverse operation is the symbol of the direct operation with -1 as an index. Thus sin-1 x means the arc whose sine is x..

Accretion :: Accretion (n.) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share..

Successive :: Successionist (n.) A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially (Eccl.), one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid..

Drum :: Drum (v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings..

Tabular :: Tabular (a.) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.

Buffeting :: Buffeting (n.) A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity..

Succession :: Succession (n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order..

Ordinal :: Ordinal (a.) Indicating order or succession; as, the ordinal numbers, first, second, third, etc..

Sequence :: Sequence (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

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