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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..

Romanic :: Romanic (n.) Related to the Roman people by descent; -- said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues.

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

Creole :: Creole (n.) One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico..

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..

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

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

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

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

Vail :: Vail (n.) Submission; decline; descent.

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

Incandescent :: Incandescent (a.) White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant..

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

Entailment :: Entailment (n.) The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent..

Fall :: Fall (n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet..

Family :: Family (v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family..

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

Kin :: Kin (n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common 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..

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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