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

Ancestry :: Ancestry (n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent..

Gens :: Gens (a.) A minor subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem..

Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense..

Fall :: Fall (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

Homogenous :: Homogenous (a.) Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic..

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

Drop :: Drop (n.) Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.

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

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

Polyphyletic :: Polyphyletic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; -- opposed to monophyletic..

Precipitate :: Precipitate (a.) Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong..

Illapse :: Illapse (v. i.) A gliding in; an immisson or entrance of one thing into another; also, a sudden descent or attack..

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