SE'ASON. n. se'zn.Season literally signifies that which comes or arrives; and in this general sense, is synonymous with time. Hence,

1. A fit or suitable time; the convenient time; the usual or appointed time; as, the messenger arrived in season; in good season. This fruit is out of season.

2. Any time, as distinguished from others.

The season prime for sweetest scents and airs. Milton.

3. A time of some continuance, but not long.

Thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. Acts 13.

4. One of the four divisions of the year, spring, summer, autumn, winter. The season is mild; it is cold for the season.

We saw in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year n their beauty.

1. A fit or suitable time; the convenient time; the usual or appointed time; as, the messenger arrived in season; in good season. This fruit is out of season.
2. Any time, as distinguished from others. The season prime for sweetest scents and airs. – Milton.
3. A time of some continuance, but not long. Thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. – Acts xiii.
4. One of the four divisions of the year, spring, summer, autumn, winter. The season is mild; it is cold for the season. We saw, in six days' traveling, the several seasons of the year in their beauty. – Addison. We distinguish the season by prefixing its appropriate name, as the spring-season, summer-season, &c. To be in season, to be in good time, or sufficiently early for the purpose. To be out of season, to be too late, beyond the propel time, or beyond the usual or appointed time. From the sense of convenience, is derived the following.
5. That which matures or prepares for the taste; that which gives a relish. You lack the season of all nature, sleep. – Shak. But in this sense, we now use seasoning.

1. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate, as the human body.
2. To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance. Timber seasons well under cover in the air, and ship timber seasons in salt water.
3. To betoken; to savor. [Obs.] – Beaum.

1. To render palatable, or to give a higher relish to, by the addition or mixture of another substance more pungent or pleasant; as, to season meat with salt; to season any thing with spices. Lev. ii.
2. To render more agreeable, pleasant, or delightful; to give a relish or zest to by something that excites, animates, or exhilarates. You season still with sports your serious hours. – Dryden. The proper use of wit is to season conversation. – Tillotson.
3. To render more agreeable, or less rigorous and severe; to temper; to moderate; to qualify by admixture. When mercy seasons justice. – Shak.
4. To imbue; to tinge or taint. Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. – Taylor.
5. To fit for any use by time or habit; to mature; to prepare. Who in want a hollow friend doth try, / Directly seasons him an enemy. – Shak.
6. To prepare for use, by drying or hardening; to take out or suffer to escape the natural juices; as, to season timber.
7. To prepare or mature for a climate; to accustom to and enable to endure; as, to season the body to a particular climate. Long residence in the West Indies, or a fever, may season strangers.

1. One of the divisions of the year, marked by alterations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy.
   
   

   The several seasons of the year in their beauty. Addison.

2. To render suitable or appropriate] to prepare; to fit.
   
   

   He is fit and seasoned for his passage. Shak.

3. To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
4. Hence, a period of time, especially as regards its fitness for anything contemplated or done; a suitable or convenient time; proper conjuncture; as, the season for planting; the season for rest.
   
   

   The season, prime for sweetest scents and airs. Milton.

5. To fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
6. To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
7. A period of time not very long; a while; a time.
   
   

   Thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. Acts xiii. 11.

8. Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
9. To give token; to savor.
   
   
   [Obs.] Beau. *** Fl.
10. That which gives relish; seasoning.
    
    
    [Obs.]

    You lack the season of all natures, sleep. Shak.

    In season, in good time, or sufficiently early for the purpose. -- Out of season, beyond or out of the proper time or the usual or appointed time.

11. To fit for taste; to render palatable; to give zest or relish to; to spice; as, to season food.
12. Hence, to fit for enjoyment; to render agreeable.
    
    

    You season still with sports your serious hours. Dryden.

    The proper use of wit is to season conversation. Tillotson.

13. To qualify by admixture; to moderate; to temper.
    
    
    "When mercy seasons justice." Shak.
14. To imbue; to tinge or taint.
    
    
    "Who by his tutor being seasoned with the love of the truth." Fuller.

    Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. Jer. Taylor.

15. To copulate with; to impregnate.
    
    
    [R.] Holland.