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, Anglo-Irish. Anglo-American, . Of or pertaining to the English and Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. -- n. A descendant from English ancestors born in America, or the United States. Anglo-Danish, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Danes, or to the Danes who settled in England. Anglo-Indi…

, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant.

ures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son.

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.

logy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant. Ayliffe.

Prospect; outlook. [Obs.] This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended. Evelyn.

ployment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge. While I descend . . . to my associate powers. Milton.

Descended from Atlas. The seven Atlantic sisters. Milton.

In am so atmospherical a creature. Pope. Atmospheric engine, a steam engine whose piston descends by the pressure of the atmosphere, when the steam which raised it is condensed within the cylinder. Tomlinson. -- Atmospheric line (Steam Engin.), the equilibrium line of an indicator card. Steam is expanded "down to the…

To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff. [Obs.] Chaucer.

h mercury and inverting it in a cup containing mercury. The column of mercury in the tube descends until balanced by the weight of the atmosphere, and its rise or fall under varying conditions is a measure of the change in the atmospheric pressure. At the sea level its ordinary height is about 30 inches (760 millimeter…

voice, the compass of which partakes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.

A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin. Judg. iii. 15.

l of billows or surges; resembling billows. And whitening down the many-tinctured stream, Descends the billowy foam. Thomson.

right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii…

A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2.

A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.

A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.

A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.