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Definition of descent

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Descent (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc..

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Incandescent :: Incandescent (a.) White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant..

Fall :: Fall (n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara..

Gradient :: Gradient (n.) The rate of regular or graded ascent or descent in a road; grade.

Descent :: Descent (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity..

Precipitate :: Precipitate (a.) Falling, flowing, or rushing, with steep descent; headlong..

Proneness :: Proneness (n.) Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill..

Descent :: Descent (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.

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

Purchaser :: Purchaser (n.) One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance..

Boer :: Boer (n.) A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

Viridescent :: Viridescent (a.) Slightly green; greenish.

Side :: Side (n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.

Family :: Family (v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

Ancestry :: Ancestry (n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent..

Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Growing raw, sore, or painful again..

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance.

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

Sunsetting :: Sunsetting (n.) The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively..

Branch :: Branch (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family..

Lockage :: Lockage (n.) Amount of elevation and descent made by the locks of a canal.