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Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir..

Set :: Set (n.) The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination..

Declension :: Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

Condescension :: Condescension (n.) The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.

Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

Intussusception :: Intussusception (n.) The abnormal reception or slipping of a part of a tube, by inversion and descent, within a contiguous part of it; specifically, the reception or slipping of the upper part of the small intestine into the lower; introsusception; invagination..

Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc..

Downhill :: Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.

Nation :: Nation (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock..

Succession :: Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.

Sunsetting :: Sunsetting (n.) The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively..

Grade :: Grade (n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264..

Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday.

Disinherit :: Disinherit (v. t.) To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent..

Glow :: Glow (v. i.) To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Growing raw, sore, or painful again..

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

Englishry :: Englishry (n.) A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland.

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..

Downward :: Downward (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent..

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