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Descent :: Descent (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower..

Entailment :: Entailment (n.) The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent..

Swig :: Swiftness (n.) The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc..

Apron :: Apron (n.) A flooring of plank before a dam to cause the water to make a gradual descent.

Branch :: Branch (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family..

Homogenous :: Homogenous (a.) Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic..

Iridize :: Iridize (v. t.) To make iridescent; as, to iridize glass..

In :: In (adv.) With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband..

Clivity :: Clivity (n.) Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient.

Steepened :: Steep-down (a.) Deep and precipitous, having steep descent..

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense..

Descension :: Descension (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

Breeding :: Breeding (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.

Peristerite :: Peristerite (n.) A variety of albite, whitish and slightly iridescent like a pigeon's neck..

Iridescent :: Iridescent (a.) Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass..

Moonset :: Moonset (n.) The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets..

Descending :: Descending (a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

Entail :: Entail (n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue..

Side :: Side (n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.

Perquisite :: Perquisite (n.) Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent..

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