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Ascendant :: Ascendant (n.) Ascent; height; elevation.

Run :: Run (a.) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold..

Succeed :: Succeed (v. i.) Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant.

Bull Trout :: Bull trout () In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout..

Throat :: Throat (n.) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue..

Montgolfier :: Montgolfier (n.) A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon..

Steep :: Steep (v. t.) Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient..

Anadrom :: Anadrom (n.) A fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers.

Scale :: Scale (n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor..

Stile :: Stile (v. i.) A step, or set of steps, for ascending and descending, in passing a fence or wall..

Reascend :: Reascend (v. i.) To rise, mount, or climb again..

Chain Pump :: Chain pump () A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait..

Ascendance :: Ascendance (n.) Same as Ascendency.

Ascension :: Ascension (n.) The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

Sinistrorse :: Sinistrorse (a.) Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; -- the opposite of dextrorse. See Dextrorse.

Climb :: Climb (v. i.) To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet..

Shad :: Shad (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species..

Assurgent :: Assurgent (a.) Ascendin.

Reascend :: Reascend (v. t.) To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again.

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