Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SE'RIES, n. [L. This word belongs probably to the Shemitic שר, שור, ישר, the primary sense of which is to stretch or to strain.]

1. A continued succession of things in the same order, and bearing the same relation to each other; as, a series of kings; a series of successors.
2. Sequence; order; course; succession of things; as, a series of calamitous events.
3. In natural history, an order or subdivision of some class of natural bodies. – Encyc.
4. In arithmetic and algebra, a number of terms in succession, increasing or diminishing in a certain ratio; as, arithmetical series and geometrical series. [See Progression.]