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Extraction :: Extraction (n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

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

Lineage :: Lineage (n.) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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

Recrudescency :: Recrudescency (n.) The state or condition of being recrudescent.

Affiliation :: Affiliation (n.) Connection in the way of descent.

Grade :: Grade (n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264..

Stoop :: Stoop (n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation..

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

Declension :: Declension (n.) The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

Scarp :: Scarp (n.) A steep descent or declivity.

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

Descent :: Descent (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity..

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

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

Zirconia :: Zirconia (n.) The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light..

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

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

Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Growing raw, sore, or painful again..

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..

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