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

Bathos :: Bathos (n.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax..

Descent :: Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent..

Birth :: Birth (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction..

Descent :: Descent (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

Affiliate :: Affiliate (v. t.) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.

Line :: Line (n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings..

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

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..

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

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

Genealogy :: Genealogy (n.) Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.

Lapidescent :: Lapidescent (a.) Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

Entail :: Entail (n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.

Flake :: Flake (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash..

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..

Of :: Of (prep.) Denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood..

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

Blood :: Blood (n.) Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage..

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.

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