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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..

Descendible :: Descendible (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

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

Succession :: Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.

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

Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..

Traduction :: Traduction (n.) Derivation by descent; propagation.

Genealogize :: Genealogize (v. i.) To investigate, or relate the history of, descents..

Steepened :: Steep-down (a.) Deep and precipitous, having steep descent..

Avatar :: Avatar (n.) The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu..

Cadency :: Cadency (n.) Descent of related families; distinction between the members of a family according to their ages.

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

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

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof..

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

Blood :: Blood (n.) Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage..

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

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.

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..

Brachystochrone :: Brachystochrone (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid..

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