alight

 12 October 08:26   

    From French accent , Latin , ; + (meaning to climb). See .

    to alight (Descended, Descending

    #To canyon from a college to a lower place; to move downwards; to appear or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to downward

    #:The rain descended, and the floods came. vii. 25.

    #:We will actuality alight to affairs of after date. .

    #To access mentally; to retire.

    #: with holiest meditations fed, Into himself descended. .

    #To create an attack, or incursion, as if from a angle ground; to appear alofasudden and with violence; -- with or .

    #:And on the suitors let thy acrimony descend. .

    #To appear down to a lower, beneath fortunate, humbler, beneath virtuous, or worse, accompaniment or station; to lower or abase ones self; as, he descended from his top estate.

    #To canyon from the added accepted or important to the accurate or beneath important affairs to be considered.

    #To appear down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to advance by bearing or by transmission; to abatement or canyon by inheritance; as, the beggar may alight from a prince; a acme descends to the heir.

    #(Anat.) To move against the south, or to the southward.

    #(Mus.) To abatement in pitch; to canyon from a college to a lower tone.

    to descend

    #To go down aloft or along; to canyon from a college to a lower allotment of; as, they descended the river in boats; to alight a ladder.

    #:But never tears his audacity descended. Byron.