8 fi 3 BIS D I S 
While fcarce the (kies her horrid head can bound, So of things.—The Germans difcovyM printing and gun- 
She ftalks on earth, and (hakes the world around. Pope. pow der.— To exhibit to the view : 
Difference or contrariety of qualities, particularly of 
fou nds: 
Take but degree away, untune that firing, 
And hark what difeord follows ; each thing meets 
In mere oppugnancy. Shalifpeare. 
All nature is but art unknown to th.ee ; 
All chance, direction which thou canft not fee; 
All difeord, harmony not underftood ; 
All partial evil, univerfal good. Pope. 
[In mulic.l Sounds not of themfelves pleafing, but ne- 
ceffary to be mixed with others. See the article Music. 
•—How doth miilic amaze us, when of difeords die maketh 
the fweeteft harmony ! Pcackam. 
It is the lark that fings fo out of tune, 
Straining harfh difeords and unpleafmg (harps. S/ialtef. 
To DIS'CORD, v. n. [difeordoi Lat. ] To difagree ; not 
to fuit with.—Sounds do difhirb and alter the one the 
other; fometimes the one drowning the other, and mak¬ 
ing it not heard ; fometimes the one jarring and difeording 
with the other, and making a confufion. Bacon. 
DISCOR'DANCE, or Discordancy, f. Difagree- 
ment; oppofition ; inconfiftency 
DISCOR'DANT, adj. \_difcordans,'La\..’] Inconfiflent; 
at variance with itfelf-: 
Myrrha was joy’d the welcome news to hear, 
But, clogg’d with guilt, the joy was unfincere; 
So various, fo dijeordant is the mind, 
That in our will, a different will we find. Dryden. 
Oppofite; contrarious..—-The dijeordant attraction of fome 
wandering comets would certainly diforder the revolutions 
of the planets, if they approached too near them. Chcync. 
—Incongruous ; not conformable.—Hither confidence is 
to be referred; if by a comparifon of things done with 
the rule there be a confonancy, then follows the fentence 
of approbation ; if dijeordant from it, the fentence of con¬ 
demnation. Hale. 
DISCOR'DANTLY, adv. Inconfi-ftently ; in difagree- 
ment with itfelf. In difagreement with another.—Two 
firings of a mufical inftrument being ffrtick together, 
making two noifes that arrive at the ear at the fame time 
as to fienfe, yield a found differing from either of them, 
and as it were compounded of both ; infomuch, that if 
they be difccrdantly tuned, though each of them (truck 
apart would yield a pleafing found, yet being (truck toge¬ 
ther they make a harfh and troublefome noife'i Boyle .— 
Peevifhly; in a contradictious manner. 
DISCORD'FUL, adj. Full of difeord.—And rather 
fiirr’d by his difcordfull dame. Spenfer. 
To DISCO'VER, v. a. \_decouvrir, Fr.] To (hew; to 
difclofe ; to bring to light ; to make vilible. Toexpofe 
to view.—He d if cover etk deep things out of darknefs, and 
bringeth out to light the.fhadow of death. Job. xii. 22. 
To (liew ; not to• ihelter ; to expofe.—Law can dijeover 
fin, but not remove. Milton, —To make known ; not to 
difguife ; to reveal.—We will pafs over unto thofe men, 
and we will dijeover ourfelves unto them. Ja.x iv. 8.— 
To ken ; to efpy.—When we had difeovered Cyprus, we 
left it on the left hand. AEls .—To find out ; to obtain in¬ 
formation.—lie (hall never, by any alteration in me, dj- 
cover my knowledge of his miftake. Pope. —To detect ; 
to find though concealed : 
Man with (Length and free-will arm’d 
Complete, ,to have dijeover'd and repuls’d 
Whatever wiles of foe or feeming friend. Milton. 
To find things or places not known before.—Some to dij¬ 
eover iilands far away. Shakefpcare. 
Another part in fquadrons bend their march 
On bold adventure, to afeover wide 
That difmal world. Milton. 
Some high climbing hill, 
Which to.his eye difeovers unaware 
The goodly profpedt of fome foreign land, 
Firfi feen, or (ome renowffd metropolis 
With glifi’ring fpires and battlements adorn’d. Milton. 
DISCO'VER ABLE, adj. That which may be found 
out.—Revelation may affert two things to be joined, 
whofeconneCtion or agreement is not difcoverable by reafon. 
IVatts. —Apparent; expofed to view,'—It is concluded 
by aftronomers, that the atmofphere of the moon hath 
no clouds norrains, but a perpetual and uniform ferenity ; 
becaufe nothing difcoverable in the lunar l'urface is ever 
covered and abficonded by the interpofition of any clouds 
or mills. Bentley. 
DISCO'VERER, f. One thjt finds any thing not 
known before; a finder out.—Places receive appellations, 
according to the language of the difeovertr, from obferva- 
tions made upon the people. Broome. —A (cout; one who 
is put todefery the pofture or number of an enemy j 
fpeculator: 
Here (land, my lords, and fend difeoverers forth, 
To know the numbers of our enemies. Shakefpeare. 
DISCO'VERMENT,/. Difcovery: 
Nor the fix’d time hath Titan’s gliding fire 
Forth meted yet for this difeoverment. Fairfax. 
DISCO'VERT, f The law term for a woman unmar¬ 
ried or widow’, one not within the bonds of matrimony. 
DISCO'VER Y,/. TheaCtof finding any thing hidden : 
Of all who fince have us’d the open fea, 
Than the bold Engliflt none more fame have won ; 
Beyond the year, and out of heaven’s high way, 
They make clijcoveries where they fee no fun. Dryden. 
The aCt of revealing or difclofing any fecret.—It would 
be neceffary to fay fomething of the date to which the 
war hath reduced us ; fucli a djeovery ought to be made 
as late as pofiible. Swift. 
DISCO'VERY,’/. in law, the aft of revealing or dif¬ 
clofing any matter by a defendant, in his anfvver to a bill 
filed againft him in a court of equity. To adminifter to 
the ends of juftice, without pronouncing a judgment 
which may afteCt any rights, the courts of equity in many 
cafes compel a difcovery. This jurifdidtion is exercifed 
to affift the adminifiration of juftice, in the profecution 
or defence of fome other fuit, either in the court of 
equity itfelf or in fome other court : and a difcovery has 
been compelled to aid the jurifdiCtion of a foreign court. 
But if a bill is brought to aid, by a difcovery, the pro¬ 
fecution or defence of any proceeding, not merely civil, 
in any other court, as an indictment or information, a 
court of equity will not exercife its jurifdiCtion to com¬ 
pel a difcovery; and the defendant may demur. 2 Fez. 
398. And in the cafe of fuits merely civil in a court of 
ordinary jurifdiCtion, if that court can itfelf compel the 
■ difcovery„required, a court of equity will not interfere. 
1 Aik. 28S. A bill for a difcovery mud (hew an intereft: 
in the plaintiff in the fubjeCt to which the required dif¬ 
covery relates ; and Rich an intereft as intitles him to call 
on the defendant for the difcovery. Finch Rep. 36. 
As the objeft of a court of equity in compelling a dif¬ 
covery is either to enable itfelf or fome other court to de¬ 
cide on matters in difpute between the parties, the difco¬ 
very fought muft be material, either to the relief prayed 
by the bill, or to fome other fuit actually inftituted, cr 
capable of being inftituted. If therefore the plaintiff’ 
does not (hew by his bill Rich a cafe as renders the difco¬ 
very which-he-feeks material to the relief, if he prays 
relief; or does not (hew a title to Cue the defendant in 
fome other court ; or that he is actually involved in liti¬ 
gation with the defendant, or liable to be fo; and does 
not alfo (hew that the difcovery which he prays is mate- 
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