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Descrying

DESCRYING, ppr. Descovering; espying.

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DESCRYING, ppr. Descovering; espying.

Related meanings

Descry

DESCRY, v.t. 1. To espy; to explore; to examine by observation. The house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. Judg 1. 2. To detect; to find out; to discover any thing concealed. 3. To see; to behold; to have a si...

DE, a Latin prefix, denotes a moving from, separation; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. Hence it often expresses a negative; as in derange. Sometimes it augments the sense, as in deprave, despoi...

Descant

DESCANT, n. 1. A song or tune composed in parts. 2. A song or tune with various modulations. The wakeful nightingale All night long her amourous descant sung. 3. A discourse; discussion; disputation; animadver...

Descanting

DESCANTING, ppr. Singing in parts or with various modulations; discoursing freely; commenting. DESCANTING, n. Remark; conjecture.

Descend

DESCEND, v.i. [L. To climb.] 1. To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; to move, come or go downwards; to fall; to sink; to run or flow down; applicable to any kind of motion or of body. We descend on...

Descendant

DESCENDANT, n. Any person proceeding from an ancestor in any degree; issue; offspring, in the line of generation, ad infinitum. We are all the descendants of Adam and Eve.

Descendent

DESCENDENT, a. 1. Descending; falling; sinking. 2. Proceeding from an original or ancestor.

Descendibility

DESCENDIBILITY, n. The quality of being descendible, or capable of being trnasmitted from ancestors; as the descendibility of an estate or of a crown.

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