the act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.-incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.-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.-derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.-transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.-inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.-that which is descended; descendants; issue.-a step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.-lowest place; extreme downward place.-a passing from a higher to a lower tone.