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Escarpment :: Escarpment (n.) A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp..

Ancestry :: Ancestry (n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent..

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

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..

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

Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..

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

Pedigree :: Pedigree (n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

Family :: Family (v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

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

Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic..

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

Avalanche :: Avalanche (n.) A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything..

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

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

Cadency :: Cadency (n.) Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages.

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..

Glowlamp :: Glowlamp (n.) An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a..

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.

Quartering :: Quartering (n.) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer..

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