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Quartering :: Quartering (n.) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer..

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..

Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law..

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

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

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

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

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.

Brachystochrone :: Brachystochrone (n.) A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.

Downhill :: Downhill (n.) Declivity; descent; slope.

Lamp :: Lamp (n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent..

Degree :: Degree (n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree..

Fall :: Fall (n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet..

Zirconia :: Zirconia (n.) The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light..

Condescent :: Condescent (n.) An act of condescension.

Gaucho :: Gaucho (n.) One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle..

Extract :: Extract (n.) Extraction; descent.

Homoplasmy :: Homoplasmy (n.) Resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances..

Descent :: Descent (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

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