With of or possessive. A male descendant; a male member of a tribe, clan, or ethnic group. Cf. son of Adam at phrases 1c.

quasi-concrete. (Chiefly collective) The descendants of a specified ancestor. †Also rarely applied to an individual descendant.

A scion, a descendant. Chiefly in biblical use. Now rare.

The action of imp, v.; grafting, engrafting; the repairing of a hawk's wing with adscititious feathers. In quot. 1340 concrete a shoot, scion, ‘imp’.

A person who comes after; a descendant; a successor. Also in plural: future generations, posterity.

A descendant (of a remote or unspecified kinship); a successor. Obsolete.

Scion (esp. of a noble house); offspring, child (usually male). Obsolete since 17th cent., except as a literary archaism, or as partly continued…

A descendant (literal and figurative). Also: descendants collectively, offspring, issue. Obsolete.

Connected with the notion of a ‘genealogical tree’. A child, descendant; cf. scion, n. 2b. Obsolete except in humorous use; (quot. 1807 contains an…

A person who descends from a particular progenitor, ancestor, or ancestral stock (see descend, v. 2); issue, offspring (usually in the context of…

A scion, member of a family. Obsolete.

figurative and in figurative context. spec. A descendant, esp. one belonging to a wealthy or noble family; an heir.

Applied to people (frequently with disparaging implication). With of. An heir or descendant of a person, family, dynasty, etc.; a scion. Also: a…

A scion or descendant.

An offspring, a descendant. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

A descendant. Usually in plural. Obsolete.

irregular. A descendant.