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snag 1, noun(dictionary)

snag(3) (iou) and descend (iou)


snag(3) (iou)



snag noun3. [snag] Austral. colloq. M20.
[Origin unkn.]
A sausage.

descend (iou)



descend verb. ME.
[Old & mod. French descendre from Latin descendere, from de- DE- 1a + scandere to climb.]
I. verb intrans.
Go down, come down; fall, sink; be lowered. ME.
J. Hayward I passed to the Nile descending on it at my leasure to the sea. J. Forbes The shades of evening began to descend. P. Kavanagh A couple of crows descended from the parched sky and landed in Tarry's plot of turnips.
b. Of a planet, zodiacal sign, etc.: move away from the zenith, esp. go below the horizon; move southwards. LME.
Milton The setting Sun Slowly descended.
c. Alight from a conveyance. L15.
J. Buchan A big..car, from which a man in a raincoat had descended.
d. Withdraw into oneself for Meditation. L16-L17.
Proceed or go on to what follows, esp. from the General to the particular. ME.
Ld Macaulay Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real state of a community can be collected.
Slope or extend downwards. LME.
D. H. Lawrence A flight of stone steps descended into the depths of the water itself. Tolkien He could see the heads of the trees descending in ranks towards the plain.
Of sound: fall in pitch, go down the scale. LME.
b. Come or go down in any scale; proceed from superior to inferior. E17.
Condescend, lower oneself, stoop, (to do). LME.
S. Johnson I have seldom descended to the arts by which favour is obtained.
Fall violently upon, attack. LME.
b. Foll. by on, upon: make an inconvenient, unexpected, or unwelcome visit. E20.
Aldous Huxley I have..staying with me in Balliol young Robert Nichols, who descended on me for a day or two.
Come of, derive from a progenitor or predecessor; fig. derive from, originate. Now usu. in pass. LME.
Shakespeare As You Like It Thou shouldst have better pleas'd me with this deed, Hadst thou descended from another house. Day Lewis Her mother..was directly descended from Oliver Goldsmith's uncle.
Be transmitted by inheritance; pass by heredity, pass to an heir. LME.
W. Gouge The Crowne and Kingdome by just and unquestionable title descended on her. Steele The eternal Mark of having had a wicked Ancestor descends to his Posterity.
II. verb trans.
Bring or send down. L15-L17.
Go or come down, climb down; move downstream along (a river etc.). E17.
T. Hardy He descended the stone stairs to a lower story of the castle.