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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..

Parachute :: Parachute (n.) A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence..

Sidehill :: Sidehill (n.) The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent.

Iridiated :: Iridiated (a.) Iridescent.

Line :: Line (n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings..

Viridescence :: Viridescence (n.) Quality or state of being viridescent.

Kin :: Kin (n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent..

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

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

Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

Entailment :: Entailment (n.) The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent..

Descent :: Descent (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower..

Genealogy :: Genealogy (n.) An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.

Condescension :: Condescension (n.) The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors.

Traduction :: Traduction (n.) Derivation by descent; propagation.

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

Descent :: Descent (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent..

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

In :: In (adv.) With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband..

Creole :: Creole (n.) One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico..

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