Declension: alternatives and connections

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or…

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A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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The act of diminishing, or of making or becoming less; state of being diminished; reduction in size, quantity, or degree; -- opposed to augmentation…

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The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.

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Inflection.

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The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…

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Towards the bottom of a hill; as, water runs downhill.

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Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.

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The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

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Bright; glittering; fiery.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.

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To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.

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A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.

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The act or state of bending downward; inclination; as, declination of the head.

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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.

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Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, consid…

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The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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