inherit

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To receive (property or a title, for example) from an ancestor by legal succession or will.
2. v. To receive by bequest or as a legacy.
3. v. To receive or take over from a predecessor: The new administration inherited the economic problems of the last four years.
4. v. Biology To receive (a characteristic) from one's parents by genetic transmission.
5. v. To gain (something) as one's right or portion.
6. v. To hold or take possession of an inheritance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. In law, to take by descent from an ancestor; get by succession, as the representative of the former possessor; receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease: as, the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title. In law it is used in contradistinction to acquiring by will; but in popular use this distinction is often disregarded.
2. To receive from one's progenitors as part of one's physical or mental constitution; possess intrinsically through descent.
3. To receive by transmission in any way; have imparted to or conferred upon; acquire from any source.
4. To succeed by inheritance.
5. To put in possession; seize: with of.
6. To be vested with a right to a thing (specifically to real property) by operation of law, as successor in interest on the death of the former owner; have succession as heir: sometimes with to.

Wiktionary

1. v. To take possession of as a right (especially in Biblical translations).
2. v. To receive (property or a title etc), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
3. v. To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission.
4. v. To derive from people or conditions previously in force.
5. v. to come into an inheritance.
6. v. To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass.
7. v. To derive a new class from (a superclass).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease
2. v. To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities, genes, or genetic traits
3. v. To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.
4. v. To put in possession of.
5. v. To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. receive from a predecessor
2. v. obtain from someone after their death
3. v. receive by genetic transmission