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

Genealogize :: Genealogize (v. i.) To investigate, or relate the history of, descents..

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

Affiliation :: Affiliation (n.) Connection in the way of descent.

Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday.

Grade :: Grade (n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264..

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

Downward :: Downward (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent..

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

Eurasian :: Eurasian (a.) Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain..

Grandchild :: Grandchild (n.) A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.

Descending :: Descending (a.) Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards.

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

Genealogy :: Genealogy (n.) Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement..

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..

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

Boast :: Boast (v. i.) To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth..

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

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

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