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Incline :: Incline (n.) An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.

Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Steep; precipitous; abrupt; as, a sharp ascent or descent; a sharp turn or curve..

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

Birth :: Birth (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction..

Agnatic :: Agnatic (a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

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

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

Drop :: Drop (n.) Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent.

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

Romanic :: Romanic (n.) Related to the Roman people by descent; -- said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues.

Iridescence :: Iridescence (n.) Exhibition of colors like those of the rainbow; the quality or state of being iridescent; a prismatic play of color; as, the iridescence of mother-of-pearl..

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..

Glowlamp :: Glowlamp (n.) An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a..

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

Lapidescent :: Lapidescent (n.) Any substance which has the quality of petrifying other bodies, or of converting or being converted into stone..

Genealogist :: Genealogist (n.) One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..

Fall :: Fall (n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.

Disinherit :: Disinherit (v. t.) To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent..

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

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