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Fatimide :: Fatimide (n.) A descendant of Fatima.

Manhole :: Manhole (n.) A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal..

Recadency :: Recadency (n.) A falling back or descending a second time; a relapse.

Wince :: Wince (n.) A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will..

Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title..

Descended :: Descended (imp. & p. p.) of Descen.

Downwards :: Downwards (adv.) From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.

Tradition :: Tradition (n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials..

Khutbah :: Khutbah (n.) An address or public prayer read from the steps of the pulpit in Mohammedan mosques, offering glory to God, praising Mohammed and his descendants, and the ruling princes..

Ghaut :: Ghaut (n.) Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.

Direct :: Direct (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line..

Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..

Borough-english :: Borough-English (n.) A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother..

Bubonocele :: Bubonocele (n.) An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo..

Gracious :: Gracious (a.) Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty..

Gastraea :: Gastraea (n.) A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastraea theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula..

Level :: Level (n.) An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea..

Descending :: Descending (a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

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..

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