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Catanadromous :: Catanadromous (a.) Ascending and descending fresh streams from and to the sea, as the salmon; anadromous..

Deign :: Deign (v. t.) To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.

Consanguineous :: Consanguineous (a.) Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

Traduce :: Traduce (v. t.) To transfer; to transmit; to hand down; as, to traduce mental qualities to one's descendants..

Walrus :: Walrus (n.) A very large marine mammal (Trichecus rosmarus) of the Seal family, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse..

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate..

Sanskrit :: Sanskrit (n.) The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and modern, and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended, is a most important assistance in determining their history and relations. Cf. Prakrit, and Veda..

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

Condescendence :: Condescendence (n.) Alt. of Condescendenc.

Circulatory :: Circulatory (n.) A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation..

Gradient :: Gradient (a.) Rising or descending by regular degrees of inclination; as, the gradient line of a railroad..

Descendible :: Descendible (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

Parcenary :: Parcenary (n.) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

Prakrit :: Prakrit (n.) Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit; -- in distinction from the Sanskrit, which was used as a literary and learned language when no longer spoken by the people. Pali is one of the Prakrit dialects..

Portion :: Portion (n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance..

Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns..

Progeny :: Progeny (n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage..

Family :: Family (v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family..

Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..

Descent :: Descent (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.

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