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

Iridiated :: Iridiated (a.) Iridescent.

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

Affiliate :: Affiliate (v. t.) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.

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

Sidehill :: Sidehill (n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.

Excandescent :: Excandescent (a.) White or glowing with heat.

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

Slide :: Slide (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide..

Irisated :: Irisated (a.) Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent.

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..

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

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

Pavonine :: Pavonine (a.) Characteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent..

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

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

New :: New (superl.) Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous..

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..

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

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

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