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Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir..

Blood :: Blood (n.) Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage..

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..

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

Entail :: Entail (n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.

Recrudescency :: Recrudescency (n.) The state or condition of being recrudescent.

Steepened :: Steep-down (a.) Deep and precipitous, having steep descent..

Theogony :: Theogony (n.) The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod..

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

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

Descendible :: Descendible (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

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

Swig :: Swiftness (n.) The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc..

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

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

Iridescent :: Iridescent (a.) Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass..

Iridiated :: Iridiated (a.) Iridescent.

Polyphyletic :: Polyphyletic (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; -- opposed to monophyletic..

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

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

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