·noun Lowest place; extreme downward place.
II. Descent ·noun A passing from a higher to a lower tone.
III. Descent ·noun That which is descended; descendants; issue.
IV. Descent ·noun The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
V. Descent ·noun Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
VI. Descent ·noun A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
VII. Descent ·noun Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
VIII. Descent ·noun Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea;
— often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
IX. Descent ·noun Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
X. Descent ·noun Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, ·etc.