Search the Dictionary

Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. Ague drop, Black drop. See under Ague, Black. -- Drop by drop, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. "Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death." Burke. -- Drop curtain. See Drop, n.,

A real right, susceptible of assignment and of descent, charged on productive real estate, the right being coupled with the enjoyment of the property on condition of taking care of the estate and paying taxes, and sometimes a small rent. Heumann.

A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.

An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.

The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.

A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.

Of European and African descent.

Of European and Asiatic descent; of or pertaining to both Europe and Asia; as, the great Eurasian plain.

Extraction; descent. [Obs.] South.

Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." Clarendon.

The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.

Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

cularly into the water and leave in it the same way, avoiding beating on the water in the descent and lifting water in the ascent.

A native of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanish descent or of mixed blood.

A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash. With flakes of ruddy fire. Somerville.

ght of a storm center passing over Central Europe. The wind, heated by compression in its descent from the mountains, reaches the base, particularly in winter, dry and warm.

On of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.

One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

To investigate, or relate the history of, descents.

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 succession; a pedigree.