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The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.

Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient. [R.]

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor.

ting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

Concave on one side and convex on the other, as an eggshell or a crescent.

The act of condescending; voluntary descent from one's rank or dignity in intercourse with an inferior; courtesy toward inferiors. It forbids pride . . . and commands humility, modesty, and condescension to others. Tillotson. Such a dignity and condescension . . . as are suitable to a superior nature. Addison.…

Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.

Convalescent. [R.] He found the queen somewhat convalesced. J. Knox.

A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

To change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy.

The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent. In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. Bacon

pain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.

Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.

preserving from evil, is very old. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. Before the cross has waned the crescent's ray. Sir W. Scott. Tis where the cross is preached. Cowper.

The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.

e portion of it a straight line. Axis of a curve. See under Axis. -- Curve of quickest descent. See Brachystochrone. -- Curve tracing (Math.), the process of determining the shape, location, singular points, and other perculiarities of a curve from its equation. -- Plane curve (Geom.), a curve such that when a plane…

The point or horn of the crescent moon or other crescent-shaped luminary.

Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.

A one-seeded, one-called, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.

A form assumed by Protozoa inwhich they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.