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

Nation :: Nation (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock..

Of :: Of (prep.) Denoting that from which anything proceeds; indicating origin, source, descent, and the like; as, he is of a race of kings; he is of noble blood..

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

Pedigree :: Pedigree (n.) A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

Blood :: Blood (n.) Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage..

Waterfall :: Waterfall (n.) A fall, or perpendicular descent, of the water of a river or stream, or a descent nearly perpendicular; a cascade; a cataract..

Flake :: Flake (n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash..

Escarpment :: Escarpment (n.) A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp..

Vail :: Vail (n.) Submission; decline; descent.

Recrudescent :: Recrudescent (a.) Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof..

Homogenous :: Homogenous (a.) Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic..

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant..

Lineage :: Lineage (n.) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

Englishry :: Englishry (n.) A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland.

Family :: Family (v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family..

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

Emphyteusis :: Emphyteusis (n.) A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent..

Lapidescent :: Lapidescent (a.) Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

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