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Blood :: Blood (n.) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.

Hade :: Hade (n.) The descent of a hill.

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..

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..

Iridiated :: Iridiated (a.) Iridescent.

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

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

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..

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

Nation :: Nation (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock..

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

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

Paternity :: Paternity (n.) Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child..

Descent :: Descent (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

Tapetum :: Tapetum (n.) An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid..

Moonset :: Moonset (n.) The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets..

Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic..

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

Cestus :: Cestus (n.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form..

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