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Moonset :: Moonset (n.) The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets..

Succession :: Succession (n.) An order or series of descendants; lineage; race; descent.

Affiliate :: Affiliate (v. t.) To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to.

Rainfall :: Rainfall (n.) A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region..

Descension :: Descension (n.) The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation.

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..

Lapidescence :: Lapidescence (n.) The state or quality of being lapidescent.

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..

Glow :: Glow (v. i.) To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

Descent :: Descent (n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.

Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..

Excandescent :: Excandescent (a.) White or glowing with heat.

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

Perquisite :: Perquisite (n.) Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent..

Chromosphere :: Chromosphere (n.) An atmosphere of rare matter, composed principally of incandescent hydrogen gas, surrounding the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame..

Strain :: Strain (n.) Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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

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

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.

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

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