"serried" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means closely packed together, and can be used to describe a group of objects or people. For example, you could say "The students all marched onto the field in a serried row."
When you stagger red-eyed out of bed to peer into the murky dawn, you will see rank upon serried rank of raw "superblock" developments, a mile apart, marching into the distance.
Can Europe come up with a market as liquid as America's, with its shadow ratings provided by insurance commissioners, standard contract and serried ranks of knowledgeable insurers?
They called him kooky, and laughed at him for doing weird stuff.In the early 1950s, when he began to get into it all, computers meant serried desks of girls with hand-held calculators.
"Row upon row of gaunt faces, serried ranks of grimy, raged figures; the delicate, hunger-ravaged features of children waiting in line for an UNRWA food parcel; the face of a mother creased in grief for a deceased child; tears of joy as a father is reunited with a long-lost daughter; these are the vignettes of inhumanity that have become the regular fare of nightly news bulletins.
It's hard to care very much about the teen-age characters in Hollywood movies — so many of them are beer-bonged slobs or wizards flying around on broomsticks or vampires with interesting teeth and serried abs but little soul.
So basic were the shapes he chose that they were never merely pans and crockery: serried bowls on a table could suggest rocks stacked in a dry stone wall or boats taking refuge in a harbour.
The parties sit in a horseshoe, not glaring in serried ranks as if at an enemy army.
IT IS not much to look at: a sort of dusty, stunted poplar planted in serried ranks up Yemen's rocky hillsides.
One day, perhaps, the serried ranks of Bradford fans will include lots more hijab-wearing women (that being the standard female attire in certain parts of the city) chanting enjoyable insults to rival cities and teams, in unison with rowdy men of all persuasions.Or take a more current example, again from northern England.
They set fire to an Israeli flag, bashed in shops and threw stones at serried ranks of riot police, 15 of whom retired wounded.
A review of Iraq-related intelligence and how it corresponds with reality, which Mr Rumsfeld has asked the CIA to conduct, must resolve these pressing issues.Still, given all the evidence available, it remains likeliest that Mr Hussein did indeed have some sort of WMD programme, if not the serried ranks of illegal munitions portrayed by Mr Blair and Mr Bush.
