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serried
CIDE DICTIONARY
serried, a. [See Serry.].
Crowded; compact; dense; pressed together. [1913 Webster]
"Nor seemed it to relax their serried files." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
serried, adj. (of ranks of soldiers, rows of trees, etc.) pressed together; without gaps; close.
Etymology
past part. of serry press close prob. f. F serr{eacute} past part. of serrer close ult. f. L sera lock, or past part. of obs. serr f. OF serrer
THESAURUS
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, viscousROGET THESAURUS
serried
Assemblage
N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.Density
N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.For further exploring for "serried" in Webster Dictionary Online