descent (the foll. are rare S. uses)
1.
that to which
one descends, lowest part
Lr. V. iii. 139
“To the and dust below
thy foot.”
2.
transmission by
inheritance
R2 II. iii. 136
“my inheritance of free
”
; step in descent
All'sW. III. vii. 24
“From son to son, some
four or five descents.”
