cohort

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.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. [1913 Webster]

During some years his life a series of triumphs.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

2.(Biol.) Any comprehensive group of animals or plants including several subordinate related groups. [1913 Webster]

Note: Sometimes a series includes several classes; sometimes only orders or families; in other cases only species. [1913 Webster]

3.(Bot.) In Engler's system of plant classification, a group of families showing certain structural or morphological relationships. It corresponds to the cohort of some writers, and to the order of many modern systematists. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

4.(Math.) 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. [1913 Webster]

5.(Elec.) A mode of arranging the separate parts of a circuit by connecting them successively end to end to form a single path for the current; -- opposed to parallel. The parts so arranged are said to be

in series. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

6.(Com.) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

1.(Rom. Antiq.) A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion. [1913 Webster]

2.Any band or body of warriors. [1913 Webster]

With him the cohort bright Of watchful cherubim.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

3.(Bot.) A natural group of orders of plants, less comprehensive than a class. [1913 Webster]