Serried

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Serried \Ser"ried\, a. [See {Serry}.]
     Crowded; compact; dense; pressed together.
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           Nor seemed it to relax their serried files. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Serry \Ser"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Serried}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Serrying}.] [F. serrer, LL. serrare, serare, from L. sera a
     bar, bolt; akin to serere to join or bind together. See
     {Serries}.]
     To crowd; to press together.
  
     Note: [Now perhaps only in the form serried, p. p. or a.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  serried
       adj : (especially of rows as of troops or mountains) pressed
             together; "in serried ranks"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "serried":
     articulated, assembled, bristling, catenated, ceaseless, close,
     close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, compact, compacted,
     compressed, concatenated, concentrated, concrete, condensed,
     congested, connected, consolidated, constant, continual, continued,
     continuing, continuous, crammed, crammed full, crawling, crowded,
     cyclical, dense, direct, endless, featureless, firm, full, gapless,
     gluey, hard, heavy, immediate, impenetrable, impermeable,
     incessant, interminable, jam-packed, jammed, joined, jointless,
     linked, massive, monotonous, never-ending, nonporous, nonstop,
     packed, perennial, periodic, populous, ranged, ranked, recurrent,
     repetitive, round-the-clock, running, saw-toothed, sawtooth,
     seamless, serrated, smooth, solid, stable, steady, straight,
     substantial, swarming, teeming, thick, thick-growing, thickset,
     tiered, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated,
     unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting,
     uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, viscid, viscose,
     viscous