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A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.]

The act or the state of declining; declination; descent; slope. The declension of the land from that place to the sea. T. Burnet.

turning aside; oblique motion; obliquity; withdrawal. The declination of atoms in their descent. Bentley. Every declination and violation of the rules. South.

Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the same slope, considered as descending, being a declivity, which, considered as ascending, is an acclivity.

s already known. Locke. See what regard will be paid to the pedigree which deduces your descent from kings and conquerors. Sir W. Scott.

A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil…

n East Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.

A crescentic mass of granular protoplasm present in the salivary glands.

Arborescent or dendritic agate.

an oxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallized mineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; an arborization.

Pertaining to a dendrite, or to arborescent crystallization; having a form resembling a shrub or tree; arborescent.

That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.

The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.

To receive, as from a source or origin; to obtain by descent or by transmission; to draw; to deduce; -- followed by from.

Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.

Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs (Astron.), those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node (Astron.), that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing southward. -- Descending series (Math.), a series in which eac…

The act of going downward; descent; falling or sinking; declension; degradation. Oblique descension (Astron.), the degree or arc of the equator which descends, with a celestial object, below the horizon of an oblique sphere. -- Right descension, the degree or arc of the equator which descends below the horizon of a ri…

Deviation of a falling body (Physics), that deviation from a strictly vertical line of descent which occurs in a body falling freely, in consequence of the rotation of the earth. -- Deviation of the compass, the angle which the needle of a ship's compass makes with the magnetic meridian by reason of the magnetism of…

A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.