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Descendant :: Descendant (n.) One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant..

Ascend :: Ascend (v. i.) To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

Carlovingian :: Carlovingian (a.) Pertaining to, founded by, of descended from, Charlemagne; as, the Carlovingian race of kings..

Fatimide :: Fatimide (a.) Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed..

Derive :: Derive (v. i.) To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced.

Acclivity :: Acclivity (n.) A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent..

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..

Sol-fa :: Sol-fa (v. i.) To sing the notes of the gamut, ascending or descending; as, do or ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do, or the same in reverse order..

Shemite :: Shemite (n.) A descendant of Shem.

Slip :: Slip (n.) A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine..

Mallard :: Mallard (a.) A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead.

Jacobite :: "Jacobite (n.) A partisan or adherent of James the Second, after his abdication, or of his descendants, an opposer of the revolution in 1688 in favor of William and Mary..

Redescend :: Redescend (v. i.) To descend again.

Pregravitate :: Pregravitate (v. i.) To descend by gravity; to sink.

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon..

Condescended :: Condescended (imp. & p. p.) of Condescen.

Descendibility :: Descendibility (n.) The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate..

Dismount :: Dismount (v. i.) To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted..

Down :: Down (adv.) In a descending direction along; from a higher to a lower place upon or within; at a lower place in or on; as, down a hill; down a well..

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

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