to be derived (from)
To move toward the south, or to the southward.
To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
to proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.
To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.
To enter mentally; to retire.
To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself
To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.
To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.
To be caused or derived; to originate.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
To descend in a family line.
To remove the stem from.
A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.
A branch of a family.
A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
The penis.
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
A person's leg.
The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
A vertical stroke of a letter.
A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.