row or line; series or tier; a social group.
Examples: rank of baskets; of carriages; of criminals; of death; of geese and ganders; of nobles; of opposition; of organ pipes; of osiers; of poor, lame and impotent persons; of prejudices; of the priesthood; of soldiers; of swelling streams; of taxi-cabs; of teeth; of trees; of poetic tribe; of war; of wretched youths.