Definition of descend

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Descend (v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon..

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Benjamite :: Benjamite (n.) A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin.
Condescend :: Condescend (v. i.) To consent.
Descent :: Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent..
Tautochrone :: Tautochrone (n.) A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone..
Daughter :: Daughter (n.) A female descendant; a woman.
Heredity :: Heredity (n.) Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.
Dismount :: Dismount (v. i.) To come down; to descend.
Swoop :: Swoop (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop..
Entail :: Entail (n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage..
Swap :: Swap (v. t.) To fall or descend; to rush hastily or violently.
Down :: Down (v. t.) To cause to go down; to make descend; to put down; to overthrow, as in wrestling; hence, to subdue; to bring down..
Pali :: Pali (n.) A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc..
Alight :: Alight (v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof..
Fatimide :: Fatimide (n.) A descendant of Fatima.
Cognation :: Cognation (n.) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.
Celt :: Celt (n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France..
Ghaut :: Ghaut (n.) Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.
Condescendence :: Condescendence (n.) Alt. of Condescendenc.
Avale :: Avale (v. t. & i.) To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.
Down :: Down (v. i.) To go down; to descend.
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