|Noah Webster's Dictionary| 1. (n.) A change of place from
higher to lower; as, a descent from a mountaintop. 2. (n.)
Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea;
-- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the
enemy. 3. (n.) 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. 4. (n.)
Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation;
lineage; birth; extraction. 5. (n.) Transmission of an estate by
inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending
line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity. 6.
(n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping
surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent. 7. (n.) That
which is descended; descendants; issue. 8. (n.) A step or remove
downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of
genealogy; a generation. 9. (n.) Lowest