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Matriarch :: Matriarch (n.) The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

Profound :: Profound (a.) Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.

Declivous :: Declivous (a.) Descending gradually; moderately steep; sloping; downhill.

Descensive :: Descensive (a.) Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.

Swoop :: Swoop (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop..

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

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.

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

Declivity :: Declivity (n.) A descending surface; a sloping place.

Inheritability :: Inheritability (n.) The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs.

Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To proceed, as progeny; to be derived; to be descended; to spring..

Descendingly :: Descendingly (adv.) In a descending manner.

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

Arms :: Arms (n.) The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son..

Extraught :: Extraught (p. p.) Extracted; descended.

Vouchsafe :: Vouchsafe (v. i.) To condescend; to deign; to yield; to descend or stoop.

A :: A () The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural

Step :: Step (v. i.) A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder..

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

Son :: Son (n.) A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general..

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