DESCENT
NOUNS
► BAJA a steep descent, road, or trail → 1968 Amer. dial.
► BAJADA a steep descent, road, or trail → 1866 Amer. dial.
► DECOURSE downward course; descent → 1585 obs.
► DOWNCOME descent from a higher place or position; downfall; humiliation; also, a downpour → 1522 now chiefly Sc.
► DOWNHIELD a downward slope; decline, descent → 1400 obs.
► ETION kindred, lineage; descent, genealogy → 1742 Sc. obs.
► JUMP OFF a precipitous descent; a place which a person must jump → 1873 US colloq.
► PARAGE lineage, descent, rank; esp. noble or high lineage → a1300 obs.
► SCENT descent → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► STRIND generation, descent, lineage; a race, breed, stock; offspring, progeny → 900 obs.
► SWORD-SIDE the male line in descent → 1854
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