Descent: alternatives and connections

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

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A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

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The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

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An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succ…

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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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Family relationship.

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Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.

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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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To labor; to travail.

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A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.

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To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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To plunge into water head foremost; to thrust the body under, or deeply into, water or other fluid.

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

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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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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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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 clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.

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Alt. of Folks

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A kind of loose jacket for men.

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Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families.

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of Lighten

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A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

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The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.

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A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

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of Set

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One who shows or exhibits.

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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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of Sink

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To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

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Bright; glittering; fiery.

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To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.

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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 pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall;…

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To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall;…

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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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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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Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

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The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste produc…

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The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope.

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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 extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a…

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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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The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

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Flax; linen.

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Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

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Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble par…

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A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

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One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.

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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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