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Condescent :: Condescent (n.) An act of condescension.

Blood :: Blood (n.) Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.

Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..

Drib :: Drib (v. t. & i.) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.

Gradient :: Gradient (n.) The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.

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

Grandchild :: Grandchild (n.) A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.

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

Parentage :: Parentage (n.) Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage..

Declivity :: Declivity (n.) Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity..

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law..

Homogeny :: Homogeny (n.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence

Derive :: Derive (v. t.) To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from..

Pearly :: Pearly (a.) Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood..

Lapidescence :: Lapidescence (n.) The state or quality of being lapidescent.

Lockage :: Lockage (n.) Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.

Extract :: Extract (n.) Extraction; descent.

Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Steep; precipitous; abrupt; as, a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve..

Genealogist :: Genealogist (n.) One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

Viridescence :: Viridescence (n.) Quality or state of being viridescent.

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