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Discinidse 
There might seem to be some kinde of mannerly order 
in this guilty departure : not all at once, least they should 
seeme violently chased away by this charge of Christ ; now 
their slinking away (one by one) may seem to carry a 
shew of deliberate and voluntary diseesn&n. 
Bp. Hall, Woman taken in Adultery. 
discharge (dis-charj'), r. ; pret. and pp. dts- 
cJiargea, ppr. discharging. [< ME. dischargen, 
deschargen, < OF. descharger, deschargier, des- 
charcier, deskargier, F. decharger = Pr. 8p. Pg. 
descargar, Pg. also descarregar = It. discaricare, 
discarcare, scaricare, < ML. discargare, discar- 
ricare, unload. < dis- priv. + carricare (> OF. F. 
charger), load, charge: see dis- and charge.] 
L trans. 1. To unload; disburden; free from 
a charge or load: as, to discharge a ship by 
removing the cargo, a bow by releasing the 
arrow, a gun by tiring it off, a Leyden jar by 
connecting its inner and outer coatings, etc. 
Every man should be ready discharged of his irons by 
eight o'clock on the next day at night. 
Munday (Arber's Eng. Garner, L 208). 
The galleys also did oftentimes out of their prows dis- 
charge their great pieces against the city. 
Knolles, Hist Turks. 
No sooner was y> boate discharged of what she brought, 
but ye next company tooke her and wente out with her. 
H'. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 137. 
When the charge of electricity is removed from a charged 
body it is said to be discharged. 
S. P. Thompson, Elect and Mag., p. 8. 
2. To remove, emit, or transfer; clear out or 
off ; send off or away. Specifically (a) To take out 
or away ; clear away by removing, unloading, or trans- 
ferring: as, to discharge a cargo from a ship, or goods 
from a warehouse ; to discharge weight from a beam by 
lessening or distributing it ; to discharge dye from silk. 
We arrived at Cadiz, and there discharged certain mer- 
chandize, and took other aboard. 
Capt. Eager Bodenham (Arber's Eng. Garner, L 33). 
(6) To give Tent to ; cause or allow to pass off ; send or 
throw out; emit: as, a pipe discharges water', an ulcer dis- 
eharges pus ; this medicine will discharge bad humors from 
the blood ; he ducharyed his fury upon the nearest object 
For some distance from the mouth of the Mississippi 
the sea is not salt, so great is the volume of fresh water 
which the river discharges. Bancroft, Hist I". S., L 52. 
Hapless is he on whose head the world discharges the vials 
of its angry virtue ; and such is commonly the case with 
the last and detected usufructuary of a golden abuse which 
has outlived its time. Gladstone, Might of Bight, p. 148. 
(c) To send forth by propulsion ; let drive : as, to dis- 
charge a shot from a gun, or a blow upon a person's head. 
They do discharge then- shot of courtesy. 
Shale., Othello, ii. 1. 
(d) To clear off by payment, settlement, or performance ; 
settle up ; consummate : as, to discharge a debt or an ob- 
ligation. 
I will discharge my bond, and thank you too. 
Shak.,C. of E., IT. 1. 
Many Pilgrims resort to discharge their vowes. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 321. 
Having discharged our visit to Ostan Bassa, we Bid out 
after Dinner to view the Marine. 
Maundrett, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 31. 
3. To pay or settle for; satisfy a demand or 
an obligation for. [Rare.] 
He had gamed too, and lost his money, so that I was 
obliged to discharge his lodgings, and defray his expenses 
on the road. Franldin, Autobiog., p. 55. 
4. To set free; dismiss; absolve ; release from 
accusation, restraint, obligation, duty, or ser- 
vice : as, to discharge a prisoner, a debtor, a jury, 
a servant, etc. ; to discharge one's conscience 
of duty ; to discharge the mind of business. 
I grant and confess, Friend Peter, myself discharged of 
so much labour, having all these things ready done to my 
hand, that almost there was nothing left for me to do 
Sir T. More, Ded. to Peter Giles, p. 4. 
I here discharge yon 
My house and service ; take your liberty 
Beau, and PI., Knight of Burning Pestle, L 1. 
The deputy . . . had, out of court, discharged them of 
their appearance. Winthnf, Hist New England, 1. 103. 
Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see 
MB ... 
5. To carry on, as an obligatory course of ac- 
tion ; perform the functions of, as an employ- 
ment or office; execute; fulfil: us, to discharge 
the duties of a sheriff or of a priest ; to discharge 
a trust. 
How can I hope that ever heU discharge his place of 
trust . . . that remembers nothing I say to him? 
B. Janson, Bartholomew Fair, U. 1. 
6f. To clear one's self of, as by explanation; 
account for. 
At last be bade her (with bold stedfastnesse) 
Ceasse to molest the Moone to walke at large, 
Or come before high Jove her dooings to discharge 
Spenser, F. Q., VTJ. TL17. 
7. In dyeing, to free from the dye. (o) In ntt- 
dyeing, to free (the silk) from the dye, if from any cause it is 
found to have taken the color in an unsatisfactory manner. 
Raw silk, sonple and discharged sflk, must be acted upon 
differently by chemical agents. 
(i) lu calico- or other cloth-printing, to free (the cloth) from 
the color in the places where the figure is to appear. 
term of T"l'*'*rirrtt. accompanied with a certificate of ser- 
vice and good conduct, entitling a seaman to a bounty of 
Printing a highly acid colour upon the cloth to be <fw- three months' pay if he reenlists within that time. 
charged, and then plunging it into a solution of bleaching, discharger (dis-char'jer), n. One who or that 
powder in water. which discharges. Specifically (a) In elect, an in- 
W. Crookes, iJyeing and t^ltaH-inttog, p. 317. strument or a device by meWofwhich the electricity ^ 
(0 To remove (the color). See discharge style, below, discharged from a Leyden jar, condenser, or other charged 
When the colour is discharged clear water is paased J^fe 1 .*' ** **"*"? discharge. See discharge, 9. 
Z&ZZXZSS5SSZi 
barrel of the air-pump and opens upward. It 
an obligation or encumbrance, an official memorandum prevents the water which is forced through it 
that it has been discharged. on the ascent of the piston from returning. 
IL intrant. 1. To throw off a burden. 2. discharity (dis-char'i-ti), n. [< dis- priv. + 
To deliver a load or charge : as, the troops charity.'} Want of charity. [Rare.] 
loaded and discharged with great rapidity. When devotion to the Creator should cease to be testi- 
The cloud, it it were ofly or fatty, would not discharge. * by discharitf towards his creatures. Brougham. 
fiKo^Kmtast dischevelet. a. 8eed***fe. 
"Wachidia (dis-kid'i-a), . [XL., named with ref- 
erence to an obscure 
charged, where twelne lay, some dead, the rest for life 
sprawling on the ground. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's True Travels, IL 28. 
3. To blur or run: as, the lines of an india-ink 
drawing are liable to discharge if gone over with 
a wash of water-color. 
The Ink is as easy to draw with as it is without carbolic 
acid, but dries quickly, and may even be Tarnished with- 
out discharging. Workshop Receipts, 2d aer., p. 336. 
Discharging arch. Same as arch of discharge (which 
see, under orcAix Discharging rod. Inekrt.,sameas 
discharger. 
discharge (dis-charj'), n. [< OF. discharge, F. 
decharge = Sp. Pg. descarga, descargo, Pg. also 
descarrega = It. discarico, searico; from the 
verb.] 1. The act of unloading or disburden- 
ing; relief from a burden or charge: as, the 
discharge of a ship. As applied to an electrical jar, 
battery, etc., it signifies the removal of the charge by 
communication between the positive and negative sur- 
faces or poles, or with the earth. The discharge may be 
disruptive, as when it takes place by a spark through a re- 
sisting medium like the air, glass, wood, etc. ; or candor- 
tiae, through a conductor, as a metallic wire ; or connective, 
by the motion of electrified particles of matter, as of air. 
Specifically 2. The act of firing a missile 
weapon, as a bow by drawing and releasing 
the string, or a gun by exploding the charge of 
powder. 
The fictitious foresters first amused them with a double disci, n. 
discharge of their arrows. 
Stnitl, Sports and Pastimes, p. 459. 
3. The act of removing or taking away; re- 
process in the confor- 
mation of the flower, 
< Gr. Stoxt&rK, cloven, 
divided, parted, < &-, 
two-, 4- axifttv, split : 
see schism.] A ge- 
nus of Afclepiadacea; 
found in India, the 
Indian archipelago, 
and Australia. They 
are herbaceous or some- 
what woody, usually root- 
ing and climbing on trees, 
or pendulous, with small 
white or red Bowers, and 
the fleshy leaves some- 
times forming pitcher-like 
appendages. 
dischnrch (dis- 
chrch'), ?. t. [< dis- 
Diichidia KaJtcriaK 
priv. -f church.] 1. 
To deprive of the 
rank or a church. 
This can be no ground to dischurch that differing com- 
pany of Christians, neither are they other from themselves 
upon this diversity of opinion. Bp. Ball, Remains, p. 402. 
2. To cut off from church membership. 
"~ J - Plural of discus. 
(dis'i-da), H. pi. [XL., < L. discus, a 
-ida.] A family of peripylsean silico- 
skeletal radiolarians of discoidal flattened form. 
ral, as of a burden or load, by physical discidet (di-rid'), r. t. [< L. discidere, cut in 
tt&UttffS&tt ^itS-h^ cnt] To "- 
T.^^^^^^t^-i ^^tt?F&SSSSi 
And as her tongue so was her hart discided. 
vent : as, tne discharge of water from a river or 
from an orifice, of blood from a wound, of light- 
ning from a cloud. 
Sleep . . . implies diminished nervous dacha 
cial and general. 
livided, 
tended ; 
And never thoght one thing, but doubly stil was guided. 
iimmisneq nervous aiseharye, spe- , Spenser, t. Q., IV. L 27. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of PsychoL, { S. diSClferOTIS (di-sif 'e-rns), a. [< L. discus, disk, 
release or dismissal : as, the discharge of a pris- ? - / ** ^f or -^. * flowe " r . + *<] I" 6of., having 
oner, of a debtor, or of a servant. flowers in which the receptacle is expanded into 
Death who sets an free a cons pi ca ous disk surrounding the ovary, and 
Hath paid his ransom now, and full discharge. usually distinct from the calyx : applied to a 
Milton, 8. A., L 1474. large series of polypetalous orders, including 
Which word imports ... an acquittance or discharge the Butaeea?, Khamnactce, Sapindacete, etc. 
of a man upon ... full trial and cognizance of his cause, discifonn (dis'i-fdrm), a. [? L. discus, a disk, 
"I grant, "quoth he, "our Contract null, ' + forma, shape.] Resembling a disk or quoit 
And give you a Discharge in full." m Shape ; dlSCOldal. 
Congme, An Impossible Thing. Discina (di-si'na), n. [XL., < L. discus, a disk, 
6. The rate of flowing out: as, the discharge is + -tua 1 .] The typical genus of brachiopods of 
100 gallons a minute. 7. That which is thrown th family Discinida. The genus ranges from 
out ; matter emitted : as, a thin serous discharge; * ne Silurian to the present day. 
a purulent discharge. 8. Performance; exe- discinctt (di-singkt'), a. [< L. discinctm, nn- 
cution : as, a good man is faithful in the dis- g" rt ) PP- t discingere, ungird, < dis- priv. + cin- 
charge of his duties. gere, gird: see ceint, cincture.] Ungirded. 
For the better Discharge of my Engagement to your disxrindt (di-sind'), V. t. [< L. discindere, cut 
Ladyship, I will rank all the ten before yon, with some of asunder, separate, < di- for dis-, asunder, + scin- 
their most signal Predictions. Bovxll, Letters, IT. 4S. 
Indefatigable in the discharge of business. Motley. 
9. In dyeing, a compound, as chlorid of lime, 
which has the property of bleaching, or tak- 
ing away the color already communicated to a 
fabric, by which means white patterns are pro- 
duced on colored grounds. If to this compound a 
color be added which is not affected by it the first color 
is destroyed as before, and this second color takes the 
place of the white pattern. Arch of discharge. See 
"?*> Certificate of discharge. See certificate, i 
Charge and discharge. See charge. Discharge in 
bankruptcy or insolvency, release from obligation, by 
act of the law, on surrendering one's property to be di- 
vided among creditors. Discharge Of fluids, the name 
given to that branch of hydraulics which treats of the issu- 
ing of water through apertures in the sides and bottoms of 
vessels. Discharge style, a method of calico-printing in 
which a piece of cloth is colored, and from parts of which 
the color is afterward removed by a discharge, so as to form 
dere, cut. Cf. discission.] To cut in two ; di- 
vide: as, "nations . . . 
discinded by the main,^ 
Hoxell, Letters, To the 
Knowing Reader, 
discinid (dis'i-nid), n. A 
brachiopod of the family 
Discinidtt. 
Discinidae (di-sin'i-de), n. 
pi. [XL., < Discina + 
-idee.] A family of lyo- 
pomatous brachiopods. 
It is characterized by a short 
peduncle, passing through a 
foramen of the ventral valve ; 
fleshy brachial appendages, 
curved backward and with 
small terminal spires directed downward ; valves sill-cir- 
cular or subovate ; and the shell-substance calcareous or 
horny. It is a group of about ti genera, most of which are 
extinct 
with put of the 
lower mantle-lobe removed, 
showing the animal. /. ex- 
panded surface of pedi:le: 
si, spiral teraunatjooB of the 
extremities of tbe labial aims. 
