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Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

Boer :: Boer (n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

Parachute :: Parachute (n.) A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence..

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

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

Grand :: Grand (superl.) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc..

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..

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

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant..

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

Iridiated :: Iridiated (a.) Iridescent.

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

Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..

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

Descent :: Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

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

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

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

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

Rainfall :: Rainfall (n.) A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region..

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