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Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir..

Tithe :: Tithe (n.) A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges..

Diestock :: Diestock (n.) A stock to hold the dies used for cutting screws.

Amusette :: Amusette (n.) A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The principal supporting part; the part in which others are inserted, or to which they are attached..

Stem :: Stem (n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top..

Hosiery :: Hosiery (n.) Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose..

Displenish :: Displenish (v. t.) To deprive or strip, as a house of furniture, or a barn of stock..

Slip :: Slip (n.) A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine..

Genuine :: Genuine (a.) Belonging to, or proceeding from, the original stock; native; hence, not counterfeit, spurious, false, or adulterated; authentic; real; natural; true; pure; as, a genuine text; a genuine production; genuine materials..

Rhizome :: Rhizome (n.) A rootstock. See Rootstock.

Stirpes :: Stirpiculture (n.) The breeding of special stocks or races.

Stag :: Stag (v. i.) To act as a stag, or irregular dealer in stocks..

Omnium :: Omnium (n.) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded.

Grade :: Grade (n.) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade..

Gapingstock :: Gapingstock (n.) One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.

Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock..

Unstock :: Unstock (v. t.) To deprive of a stock; to remove the stock from; to loose from that which fixes, or holds fast..

Tang :: Tang (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock..

Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To make partition of among a number; to apportion, as profits of stock among proprietors; to give in shares; to distribute; to mete out; to share..

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