Shak. Jago hath direction what to do. 7 The superscription of a letter, including the name, title, and place of abode of the person for whom it is intended.-8. A body or board of directors; directorate.-Line of direction, (a) in gun. the direct line in which a piece is pointed. (b) In mech. the line in which a body moves or endeavours to proceed according to the force impressed upon it: thus, if a body fall freely by gravity its line of direction is a line perpendicular to the horizon, or one which, if produced, would pass through the earth's centre; also, a line drawn from the centre of gravity of any body perpendicular to the horizon. Angle of direction, see under ANGLE.-SYN. Administration, guidance, management, superintendence, oversight, government, control, order, command, instruction. Directive (di-rekt'iv), a. Having the power of direction; pointing out the direction; showing the way; instructing; informing; guiding Precepts directive of our practive in relation to God.' Barrow. Nor visited by one directive ray, From cottage streaming, or from airy hall. Thomson. Directly (di-rekt'li), ade. 1. In a straight line or course, literally or figuratively; not in a winding course, as, aim directly at the object; gravity tends directly to the centre of the earth-2 Straightway; immediately; soon: without delay; as, he will be with us directly He will directly to the lords, I fear. Milton. See -In math. quantities are said to be directly proportional when the proportion is according to the order of the terms, in contradistinction to inversely or reciprocally proportional, which is taking the proportion contrary to the order of the terms. RATIO, PROPORTION. — In mech. a body is said to strike or impinge directly against another body when the stroke is in a direction perpendicular to the surface at the point of contact. Also, a sphere is said to strike directly against another when the line of direction passes through both their centres-SYN. Immediately, soon, promptly, instantly, instantaneously, openly, expres-ly Directness (di-rekt'nes), n. Straightness; a straight course; nearness of way; straightforwardness; immediateness. I are much their robust simplicity, their veracity, divestness of conception. Cariyle. Director (di-rekt ́ër), n. 1. One who directs; one who superintends, governs, or manages; one who prescribes to others by virtue of authority; an instructor; a counsellor. 2 Eccles, especially in the R. Cath. Ch., one who directs another in affairs of the spirit or conscience; a spiritual guide.-3 That which directs; a rule; an ordinance. Common forms were not design'd Directors to a noble mind. Swift. 41 Directorial (di-rek - tō'ri-al), a. 1. That directs; containing direction or command. The emperor's power in the collective body, or the diet, is not directorial, but executive. Guthrie, 2. Belonging to directors, or the French Directory. Directorship (di-rekt'èr-ship), n. The con dition or office of a director. Directory (di-rek'to-ri), n. 1. A guide; a rule to direct; particularly, a book containing directions for public worship or religious services; as, the Bible is our best directory in faith and practice.-2.† Eccles. the title of a book containing the systematic list to be inquired into at confession.-3. A book containing an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of a city, town, district, and the like, with their places of business and abode. 4. The executive power of the French Republic, A. D. 1795-96. It consisted of five persons called directors, and was quashed by Napoleon Bonaparte at the suggestion of Sièyes, and the Consulate established on its ruin.-5. Board of directors; directorate. Directory (di-rek'to-ri), a. [L. directorius, serving to direct, from dirigo, directum. See DIRECT.] 1. That guides or directs. This needle the mariners call their directory needle. Gregory. 2. Directing; commanding; enjoining; instructing. Blackstone. Directress (di-rekt'res), n. A female who directs or manages. B E F Directrix (di-rekt'riks), n. 1. A female who governs or directs.-2. In math. a line perpendicular to the axis of a conic section, and so placed that the distance from it of any point in the curve is to the distance of the same point from the focus in a constant ratio; also, the name given to any line, whether straight or not, that is required for the description of a curve. -Directrix of a parabola, a line perpendicular to the axis produced, and whose distance from the vertex is equal to the distance of the vertex from the focus. Thus A B is the directrix of the parabola VED, of which F is the focus. Direful (dir'ful), a. [See DIRE.] Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; as, direful fiend; a direful misfortune. D Directrix of a Parabola. Achilles' wrath to Greece, the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing! Pope. Direfully (dir'ful-li), adv. Dreadfully; terribly; wofully. Direfulness (dir'ful-nes), n. The state of being direful; dreadfulness; calamitousness; horror. The direfulness of this pestilence is more emphatically set forth in these few words than in forty such odes as Sprat's on the plague at Athens. Warton. Direly (dir'li), adv. In a dire manner. And of his death he direly had forethought. Drayton. Diremptt (di-remt'), a. Parted; separated. Stow. Dirempt (di-remt'), v. t. [L. dirimo, diremptum, to take apart, from dis, asunder, and emo, to buy, originally to take.] To take asunder; to separate by violence; to break off. Holinshed. Diremption (di-rem'shon), n. A separation. Direness (dir'nes), n. Terribleness; horror; dismalness. Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts, Shak. Direption (di-rep'shon), n. [L. direptio, from diripio direptum, to tear asunder, from di, for dis, asunder, and rapio, to snatch.] The act of plundering. This lord for some direptions being cast Into close prison. Heywood. Direptitiously + (di-rep-ti'shus-li), adv. By way of direption or robbery. Grants surreptitiously and direptitiously obtained.' Strype. Dirge (derj), n. [Believed to be a contraction of L. dirige (direct,' imperative of dirigere to direct), a word holding a prominent place in some psalm or hymn formerly sung at funerals-the particular psalm or hymn being doubtful.] A song or tune intended to express grief, sorrow, and mourning; as, a funeral dirge. With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole. Shak Dirgee (dér'jë), n. In the East Indies, a native domestic tailor or seamster. DIRTY Dirige, n. [See DIRGE.] A service for the dead; a dirge. Resort, I pray you, unto my sepulture To sing my dirige with great devotion. Chaucer. Dirigent (di'ri-jent), n. [L. dirigens, dirigentis, ppr. of dirigo, to direct. See DIRECT.] In geom. the line of motion along which the describent line or surface is carried in the generation of any plane or solid figure; directrix. Dirigent (di'ri-jent), a. Directing. Dirk (dérk), n. [Ir. and ger. Cog. G. dolch, D. Dan. and Sw. dolk, a dagger, which are derived from the Boh. and Pol. tulich, a dagger. The interchange of and r before a final guttural is very common.] A kind of dagger or poniard; a weapon formerly much used in the Highlands of Scotland, and still worn as essential to complete the Highland costume. Dirk (dêrk), v.t. poniard; to stab. Dirk (dérk),a. Dark. "The dirke night.' Spenser. Dirk + (dérk), v.t. To darken. Spenser. Dirl (dirl), v.i. [Onomatopoetic, expressive of the sound produced by rapid vibrations.] To vibrate or shake, especially with a reverberating noise; to have tremulous motion; to tingle; to thrill. [Scotch.] Dirk (front and profile). Το Dirl (dirl), n. A blow such as produces a tingling sensation or sound; the sensation or sound itself; vibration. [Scotch.] Burns. It just played dirt on the bane. Dirt (dért), n. [Icel. drit, dirt, excrement; drita, Sc. drite, A. Sax. (ge)dritan, to go to stool.] 1. Any foul or filthy substance, as excrement, earth, mud, mire, dust; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. Ivii. 20. The happy man's without a shirt. Heywood. 2. A gold-miner's name for the material, as earth, gravel, &c., put into his cradle to be washed.-3. Meanness; sordidness. Honours which are thus sometimes thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth. 4. Abusive or scurrilous language. Dirt (dért), v.t. To make foul or filthy; to soil; to bedaub; to pollute; to defile; to dirty. Ill company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves best. Swift. Dirt-bed (dért bed), n. A bed or layer of mould with the remains of trees and plants, found especially in working the freestone in the oolite formation of Portland. They are evidently the soil in which the cycads, zamias, and conifers of the period grew. The thickest layer is from 12 to 18 inches thick. Dirt-eating (dèrt'ēt-ing), n. 1. Cachexia Africana, a disorder of the nutritive functions among negroes, and in certain kinds of disturbance of the feminine health, in which there is an irresistible desire to eat dirt.-2. The practice of certain tribes of South America, as the Ottomacs, of using certain kinds of clay for food. Dirtily (dért'i-li), adv. [From dirty.1 1. In a dirty manner; foully; nastily; filthily.2. Meanly; sordidly; by low means. Dirtiness (dèrt'i-nes), n. 1. Filthiness; foulness; nastiness.-2. Meanness; baseness; sordidness.-3. Moistness; sloppiness; uncomfortableness; as, dirtiness of the wea ther. Dirt-pie (dèrt'pi), n. Clay moulded by children in imitation a pie. Dirty (dért'i), a. 1. Foul; nasty; filthy; not clean; impure; turbid; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty employment.-2. Dark-coloured; impure; dusky; as, a dirty white. Pound an almond, and the clear white colour will be altered to a dirty one. Locke. 3. Mean; base; low; despicable; grovelling; as, a dirty fellow; a dirty job or trick. Marriages should be made upon more natural motives than mere dirty interests. Sir W. Temple. DIRTY 4. (Applied to the weather) foul; sleety; rainy; sloppy; uncomfortable. When this snow is dissolved a great deal of dirty weather will follow. Fer. Taylor. Dirty (dért'i), v.t. pret. & pp. dirtied; ppr. dirtying. 1. To defile; to make filthy; to soil; as, to dirty the clothes or hands. For thine, my dear Dick, give me leave to speak plain, Like a very foul mop, dirty more than they clean. Swift. 2. To tarnish; to sully; to scandalize: applied to reputation. Diruption (di-rup'shon), n. [L. diruptio. See DISRUPT.] A bursting or rending asunder. See DISRUPTION. Dis-(dis), a prefix or inseparable preposition, from the Latin, denoting separation, a parting from; hence it has the force of a privative and negative, or reversal of the action implied in the word to which it is prefixed, as in disarm, disoblige, disagree. In many cases it retains its primary sense of separation, as in distribute, disconnect. Disability (dis-a-bil'i-ti), n. [Prefix dis, neg. or priv., and ability.] 1. Want of competent natural or bodily power, strength, or ability; weakness; impotence; as, disability arising from infirmity or broken limbs. Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. Bancroft. 2. Want of competent intellectual power or strength of mind; incapacity; as, the disability of a deranged person to reason or to make contracts. 3. Want of competent means or instruments; inability.-4. Want of legal qualifications; legal incapacity; the state of being legally incapacitated; incapacity to do any legal act. It is divided into two classes, absolute and partial. Absolute disability, as outlawry, excommunication, attainder, while it continues, wholly disables the person; partial disability inclu les infancy, idiotcy, lunacy, drunkenness, and city. Disable (dis-a'bl), v. t. pret. & pp. disabled; ppr. disabling. [Prefix dis, priv., and able.] 1. To render unable; to deprive of competent natural strength or power; to weaken so as to render i capable of action; as, a fleet is disabled by a storm or by a battle; a ship is disabled by the loss of her masts or spars. A Christian's life is a perpetual exercise, a wrestl ing and warfare, for which sensual pleasure disables him. Fer. Taylor. 2. To deprive of mental power, as by destroying or weakening the understanding. 3. To deprive of adequate means, instruments, or resources; as, a nation is disabled to carry on war by want of money; the loss of a ship may disable a man to prosecute commerce or to pay his debts.-4. To impair; to diminish; to impoverish. Shak I have disabled mine estate By showing something a more swelling port Than my faint means would grant continuance. 5. To deprive of legal qualifications or competent power; to incapacitate; to render incapable. An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood, and disables his children to inherit. Blackstone. 6. To pronounce incapable; hence, to detract from; to disparage; to undervalue. 'He disabled my judgment.' Shak.-SYN. To weaken, unfit, disqualify, incapacitate. Disablet (dis-a'bl), a. Wanting ability. Our disable and unactive force.' Daniell Disablement (dis-à'bl-ment), n. Deprivation or want of power; legal impediment; disability; weakness. Disablement to take any promotion.' Bacon. 'Disablement of the (judging) faculty.' South. Disabuse (dis-a-hüz), v.t. pret. & pp. disabused; ppr. disabusing. [Fr. désabuser, to disabuse. See ABUSE.] To free from mistake; to undeceive; to disentangle from fallacy or deception; to set right; as, it is our duty to disabuse ourselves of false notions and prejudices. If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse 42 themselves of artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. 7. Adams. Dr. Horne justly supposed that the admirers of Hume were more likely to be disabused of their error by the fear of derision, than by any force of argumentation. Knox. Disaccommodate (dis-ak-komʼmō-dāt), v. t. pret. & pp. disaccommodated; ppr. disaccommodating. [Prefix dis, priv., and accommodate.] To put to inconvenience. [Rare.] I hope this will not disaccommodate you. Bp. Warburton. Disaccommodation (dis'ak-kom-mō-dā"shon), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and accommodation.] State of being unfit, unsuited, or unprepared. Hale. Disaccord (dis-ak-kord'), v.i. [Prefix dis, neg., and accord.] To disagree; to refuse assent. But she did disaccord, Ne could her liking to his love apply. Spenser. Disaccordant (dis-ak-kord'ant), a. Not accordant; not agreeing. Disaccustom (dis-ak-kus'tum), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and accustom.] To destroy the force of habit in by disuse; to render unaccustomed; as, he has disaccustomed himself to exercise. Disacidify (dis-a-sid'i-fi), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and acidify.] To deprive of the quality of acidity; to free from acid; to neutralize the acid present in. Disacknowledge † (dis-ak-no'lej), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and acknowledge.] To deny; to disown. By words and oral expressions verbally to deny and disacknowledge it. South. Disacquaint (dis-ak-kwänt'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and acquaint.] To render unfamiliar or unacquainted; to estrange. Ye must now disacquaint and estrange yourselves from the sour old wine of Moses' law. Udull. Herrick. My sick heart with dismal smart Is disacquainted never. Disacquaintance (dis-ak-kwānt'ans), n. Neglect or disuse of familiarity or familiar knowledge. Conscience by a long neglect of, and disacquaintance with itself, contracts an inveterate rust or soil. South. Disadorn (dis-ad-orn'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and adorn.] To deprive of ornaments. Deform his beard and disadorn thy head. Congreve. Disadvance (dis-ad-vans'), v. t. or i Το check; to halt; to lower; to draw back. Forced him his shield to disadvance. Spenser. Disadvantage (dis-ad-van'tāj), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and advantage.] 1. Absence or deprivation of advantage; that which prevents success or renders it difficult; a state not favourable to successful operation; any unfavourable circumstance or state; as, the army commenced an attack on the enemy, notwithstanding the disadvantage of its position. I was under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. DISAGREE Disadventuret (dis-ad-ven'tür), n. [Prefix dis, in a bad sense, equivalent to mis, and adventure.] Misfortune. Such as esteem themselves most secure, even then fall soonest into disadventure. Sir W. Raleigh. Disadventuroust (dis-ad-ven'tūr-us), a Unprosperous. Spenser. Disadvise (dis-ad-viz'), v.t. [Prefix dis, and advise.] To advise against; to dissuade from; to deter by advice. [Rare.] it. I had a clear reason to disadvise the purchase of Boyle. Disaffect (dis-af-fekt), v.t. [Prefix dis, and affect.] 1. To alienate affection; to make less friendly to; to make less faithful to a person, party, or cause, or less zealous to support it; to make discontented or unfriendly; as, an attempt was made to disaffect the army 2. To lack affection or esteem for; to disdain; to dislike. Making plain that truth, which my charity per suades me the most part of them disaffect, only be cause it hath not been well represented to them. Chillingworth. 3. To throw into disorder. It disaffects the bowels, entangles and distorts the entrails. Hammond. 4. To shun; as, to disaffect society. Disaffected (dis-af-fekt'ed), p. and a. [Prefix dis, priv., and affected.] 1. Having the affections alienated; indisposed to favour or support; unfriendly; discontented: usually applied to persons who are hostile to an existing government. By denying civil worship to the emperor's statues, which the custom then was to give, they were proceeded against as disaffected to the emperor. Stilling fleet. 2. Morbid; diseased. Hudibras. Disaffectedly (dis-af-fekt ́ed-li), adv. In a disaffected manner. Disaffectedness (dis-af-fekt'ed-nes), n. The quality of being disaffected. Disaffection (dis-af-fek'shon), n. 1. Alienation of affection, attachment, or good-will; want of affection; or more generally, positive enmity, dislike, or unfriendliness; disloyalty; as, the disaffection of people to their prince or government; the disaffection of allies; disaffection to religion.-2. In a physical sense, disorder; bad constitution. [Rare.] The disease took its origin merely from the disaffection of the part. Wiseman. SYN. Unfriendliness, ill-will, alienation, disloyalty, enmity, hostility. Disaffectionate (dis-af-fek'shon-at), a. [Prefix dis, priv., and affectionate.] Not well disposed; not friendly; disaffected. A beautiful but disaffectionate and disobedient wife. Hayley. Disaffirm (dis-af-férm'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and affirm.] 1. To deny; to contradict.-2. In law, to overthrow or annul, as a judicial decision, by a contrary judgment of a superior tribunal. Disaffirmance (dis-af-férm'ans), n. 1. De'A demonstranial; negation; refutation. tion in disaffirmance of anything that is affirmed.' Sir M. Hale.-2. In law, overthrow or annulment, by the decision of a superior tribunal; as, disaffirmance of judg ment. Disaffirmation (dis-af'fèrm-à"shon), n. Act of disaffirming; disaffirmance. Disafforest (dis-af-fo'rest), v. t. [Prefix dis, and afforest.] To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to strip of forest laws and their oppressive privileges. By Charter 9 Henry III., many forests were disafforested. Blackstone. Disaggregate (dis-ag'grē-gåt), v.t. [Prefix dis, and aggregate.] To separate an aggregate mass into its component parts. Disaggregation (dis-ag'gre-ga"shon), n. The act or operation of separating an aggregate Disagree (dis-a-gre), v.i. pret. & pp. disbody into its component parts. agreed; ppr. disagreeing. [Prefix dis, neg, and agree.] 1. To differ; to be not accordant or coincident; to be not the same; to be not exactly similar; as, two ideas disagree when they are not the same, or when they are not exactly alike; narratives of the same fact often disagree. The mind clearly and infallibly perceives all distinct ideas to disagree; that is, the one not to be the other. Locke. 2. To differ, as in opinion; as, the best judges sometimes disagree. Who shall decide when doctors disagree! Pope 3. To be unsuitable; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often dis DISAGREEABLE agrees with the stomach or the taste.4 Fo differ; to be in opposition; not to accord or harmonize. They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because It seems to agree with what they call reason. Atterbury. 5 To be in a state of discord; to quarrel. Inted thus, we will hereafter use Metalcrocession, and the gods, induc'd By our accord, shall disagree no more. Cowper. SYN To differ, vary, dissent. Disagreeable (dis-a-gré'a-bl), a. [Prefix dis, prix, and agreeable.] 1. Not agreeable; unsuitable, not conformable; not congruous. Se deinon had forced her to a conduct disagree at her sincerity. Broome. 2 Inpleasing: offensive to the mind or to the senses; repugnant; as, behaviour may be duagreeable to our minds; food may be disagreeable to the taste. That which is disagreeable to one is many times 3 + Not agreeing; discordant, discrepant, Disagreeableness (dis-a-grē'a-bl-nes), n. 1 The state or quality of being disagreeable; unsuitableness; contrariety. - 2. Unpleasantness, offensiveness to the mind or to the ses, as, the disagreeableness of another's manners, the disagreeableness of a taste, und, or smell. Disagreeably (dis-a-gré'a-bli), adv. Unsuitbly, unpleasantly; offensively. Disagreeancet (dis-a-gré-ans), n. Disagree ment There is no disagreeance where is faith in Jesus Christ, and consent of mind together in one accord. Udall Disagreement (dis-a-grè'ment), n. [Prefix dis, priv, and agreement ] 1. Want of agreement; difference, either in form or essence, dissimilitude; diversity, as, the disagreement of two ideas, of two pictures, of two stories or narrations. They carry plain and evident notes either of disagreement or affinity. Woodward. 2. Difference of opinion or sentiments. As touching their several opinions about the neemity of sacraments, in truth their disagreement is But great Hooker. 3 Unsuitableness; unfitness. From these different relations of different things there necessarily arises an agreement or disagreement of me things to others. Clarke. 4 A falling out; a quarrel; discord.-SYN. Difference, diversity, unlikeness, discrepsney, variance, dissent, misunderstanding, dissension, division, dispute, discord. Disalliege (dis-al-lēj ́), e.t. priv, and allegiance, influenced by liege.] To alienate from allegiance. [Prefix dis, And what greater dividing than by a pernicious and hoole peace to disalliege a whole feudary king tom from the ancient dominion of England? Milton. Disallow (dis-al-lou), v.t. [Prefix dis, neg., and allow ] 1. To refuse permission; not to permit, to refuse to sanction; not to grant, not to make or regard as lawful; not to authorize, to disapprove. They disallowed self-defence, second marriages, ani usury Bentley. 2. To testify dislike or disapprobation; to refuse assent. But of her father shall disallow her in the day that he beareth, not any of her vows or her bonds shall stand Num. xxx. 5. 3. Not to approve; not to receive; to reject; to disown. Thom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious. Pet. i 4. 4 Not to allow; to reject or strike out, as illegal, unnecessary, unauthorized, and the like, as, the auditor disallowed a number of items in the account. -SYN. To disapprove, prohibit censure, condemn, reject. Disallow (dis-al-lou' ́), v.i To refuse permission or assent; not to permit. Shak. [Prefix What flows if we disallow of this? Disallowable (dis-al-lou'a-bl), a. dis, neg, and allowable.] Not allowable; aole, not to be suffered. Disallowableness (dis-al-louʼa-bl-nes), n. The state of being disallowable. Disallowance (dis-al-lou'ans), n. DisapproEation; refusal to admit or permit; prohilation, rejection. od accepts of a thing suitable for him to receive. Erista give, where he does not declare his twin dira, mance of it. South, Disally (dis-al-li), e. t. [Prefix dis mis, in a bad sense] To join in, or as in, an unholy or illegal alliance. So loosely disallied their nuptials Milton, Sams. Agon. L. 1022. 43 Disanchort (dis-angk'ér), v. t. [Dis and anchor.] To force from its anchors, as a ship; to raise the anchor of; to free from the anchor. Disangelical (dis-an-jel'ik-al), a. [Prefix dis, neg., and angelical.] Not angelical. Disanimate (dis-an'i-māt), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and animate.] 1. To deprive of life. Cudworth.-2. To deprive of spirit or courage; to discourage; to dishearten; to deject. [Rare.] The presence of a king engenders love among his subjects, as it disanimates his enemies. Shak. Disanimation (dis-an'i-mã"shon), n. 1. Privation of life. Affections which depend on life, and depart upon disanimation.' Sir T. Browne.--2. The act of discouraging; depression of spirits. [Rare.] Disannex (dis-an-neks'), v. t. [Prefix dis, and annex.] To separate; to disunite. Disannul (dis-an-nul'), v.t. [Prefix dis, intens., and annul.] To make void; to annul; to deprive of force or authority; to cancel. Now trust me were it not against our laws, Against my crown, my oath, my dignity, Which princes, would they, may not disannul, My soul should sue as advocate for thee. Shak. Disannuller (dis-an-nul'èr), n. One who makes null. Beau. & Fl. Disannulment (dis-an-nul'ment), n. nulment. An Disanoint (dis-an-oint'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and anoint.] To render consecration of invalid; to deprive of the effects of being anointed. [Rare or obsolete.] After they have juggled and paltered with the world, banded and borne arms against their king, divested him, disanointed him, nay cursed him, all over in their pulpits. Milton. Disapparel (dis-ap-pa'rel), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and apparel.] To disrobe; to strip of raiment. Disappear (dis-ap-pēr'), v.i. [Dis and appear.] 1. To vanish from the sight; to recede from the view; to go away or out of sight; to cease to appear or to be perceived; to be no longer seen. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. Locke. The black earth yawns: the mortal disappears: 2. To cease, or seem to cease, to be or exist; as, the epidemic has disappeared. Disappearance (dis-ap-pèr'ans), n. Act of disappearing; removal from sight. DeDisappendency (dis-ap-pend'en-si), n. tachment from a former connection; separation. Burn. Disappoint (dis-ap-point), v. t. [Dis and appoint; properly, to unfix or unsettle.] 1. To defeat of expectation, wish, hope, desire, or intention; to frustrate; to balk; to hinder from the possession or enjoyment of that which was intended, desired, hoped, or expected; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, or expectations are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil. Without counsel purposes are disappointed. Prov. xv. 22. 2. To frustrate; to hinder of intended effect; to foil. The retiring foe SYN. To frustrate, balk, baffle, delude, foil, defeat. Disappointed (dis-ap-point'ed), p. and a. Defeated of expectation, hope, desire, or design; having suffered disappointment. Disappointed (dis-ap-point'ed), a. [Prefix dis, neg., and appointed.] Not or ill appointed or prepared; unprepared. Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd. Shak. Disappointment (dis-ap-point'ment), n. Defeat or failure of expectation, hope, wish, desire, or intention; miscarriage of design or plan. If we hope for things, of which we have not thoroughly considered the value, our disappointment will be greater than our pleasure in the fruition of them. Addison. Disappreciate (dis-ap-prē'shi-at), v.t. [Prefix dis, and appreciate.] To undervalue; not to appreciate. Disapprobation (dis-ap' pro-ba"shon), n. [Prefix dis, priv., and approbation.] The act of disapproving; disapproval; the act of the mind which condemns what is supposed to be wrong, whether the act is expressed or not; censure, expressed or unexpressed. DISARRANGE We have ever expressed the most unqualified dis approbation of all the steps. Burke. Disapprobatory (dis-ap'pro-ba-to-ri), a. Containing disapprobation; tending to disapprove. Disappropriate (dis-ap-pro'pri-át), a. [Dis and appropriate.] Not appropriated, or not possessing appropriated church property; a disappropriate church is one from which the appropriated parsonage, glebe, and tithes are severed. The appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, two ways Blackstone. Disappropriate (dis-ap-pro'pri-at), v. t. 1. To remove from individual possession or ownership. How much more law-like were it to assist nature in disappropriating that evil, which by continuing proper becomes destructive. Milton. 2. Specifically, to sever or separate, as an appropriation; to withdraw from an appropriate use. The appropriations of the several parsonages would have been, by the rules of the common law, disappropriated. Blackstone. 3. To deprive of appropriated property, as a church; to release from possession. Disappropriation (dis-ap-pro'pri-a"shon), n. 1. The act of withdrawing from its appropriate use. Specifically-2. The act of alienating church property from the purpose for which it was designed. Disapproval (dis-ap-prov'al), n. Disapprobation; dislike. "There being not a word let fall from them in disapproval of that opinion.' Glanvill. Disapprove (dis-ap-pröv′), v.t. pret. & pp. disapproved; ppr. disapproving. [Prefix dis, priv., and approve; Fr. désapprouver.] 1. To dislike; to condemn in opinion or judg ment; to censure as wrong; as, we often dis approve the conduct of others or public measures, whether we express an opinion or not. It is generally followed by of; as, to disapprove of behaviour.--2. To refuse official approbation to; to reject, as not approved of; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander-in-chief. Disapprove (dis-ap-prov'), v.i. To express or feel disapproval. There is no reason to believe that they ever dis approve where the thing objected to is the execution of some order unquestionably proceeding from the Emperor. Brougham. Disapprovingly (dis-ap-pröv'ing-li), adv. By disapprobation. Disard (dis-ärd'), n. [A. Sax. dysig, foolish.] A foolish fellow; a dizzard. Disarm (dis-ärm'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and arm.] 1. To deprive of arms; to take the arms or weapons from, usually by force or authority; as, he disarmed his foes; the prince gave orders to disarm his subjects: with of before the thing taken away; as, to disarm one of his weapons. Specifically2. To reduce to a peace footing, as an army or navy. 3. To deprive of means of attack or defence; to render innocuous or defenceless; as, to disarm a venomous serpent. Security disarms the best appointed army. Fuller. 4. To deprive of force, strength, means of annoyance, or power to terrify; to render harmless; to quell; as, to disarm rage or passion; religion disarms death of its ter rors. Disarm (dis-ärm'), v.i. To lay down arms: specifically, to reduce armaments to a peace footing; to dismiss or disband troops; as, the nations were then disarming. Disarmament (dis-arm'a-ment), n. Act of disarming; the reduction of military and naval forces from a war to a peace footing. Disarmature (dis-ärm'a-tür), n. The act of disarming; the act of divesting one's self or another of any equipment; divestiture. On the universities, which have illegally dropt philosophy and its training from their course of dis cipline, will lie the responsibility of this singular and dangerous disarmature. Sir W. Hamilton, Disarmed (dis-ärmd), p. and a. 1. Deprived of arms; stripped of the means of defence or annoyance; rendered harmless; subdued. 2. In her. a term applied to an animal or bird of prey without claws, teeth, or beak. Disarmer (dis-ärm'ér), n. One who disarms. Disarrange (dis-a-ranj), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and arrange.] To put out of order; to unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to derange. DISARRANGEMENT Disarrangement (dis-a-ranj'ment), n. The act of disturbing order or method; disorder. Disarray (dis-a-ra'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and array.] 1. To undress; to divest of clothes. Half disarrayed as to her rest.' Tennyson.-2. To throw into disorder; to rout, as troops. Great Amythaon, who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton. Disarray (dis-a-ra'), v. i. To undress or strip one's self. Disarray (dis-a-rā'), n. 1. Disorder; confusion; loss or want of array or regular order. Disarray and shameful rout ensue. 2. Undress. Dryden. Disassociate (dis-as-so'shi-at), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and associate.] To disunite; to disconnect things associated. 'Our mind disassociating herself from the body.' Florio. Disaster (diz-as'ter), n. [Fr. désastre; It. disastro-dis, and L. astrum, Gr. astron, a star. A word of astrological origin. Compare the adj. disastrous with ill-starred; and see STAR. 1. An unfavourable aspect of a star or planet; an ill portent; a blast or stroke of an unfavourable planet. 'Disasters in the sun.' Shak.-2. Misfortune; mishap; calamity; any unfortunate event, especially a sudden misfortune; as, we met with many disasters on the road. Nor will it be less my duty faithfully to record disasters mingled with triumphs, and great national crimes and follies far more humiliating than any dis Macaulay. aster. -Misfortune, Calamity, Disaster. See under MISFORTUNE. SYN. Misfortune, mishap, calamity, mischance, misadventure, adversity, blow, infliction, catastrophe, reverse. Disaster (diz-as'tèr), v. t. 1. To blast by the stroke of an unlucky planet. Spenser 2. To injure; to afflict. Thomson.-3. To blemish; to disfigure. The holes where eyes should be which pitifully disaster the cheeks. Shak. Disasterly (diz-as'ter-li), adv. Disastrously. Drayton Disastrous (diz-as'trus), a. 1. Gloomy; dismal; threatening disaster. As when the sun Dryden. Unfor In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. 2. Unlucky; unfortunate; calamitous; occasioning loss or injury; as, the day was disastrous; the battle proved disastrous. Fly the pursuit of my disastrous love. Disastrously (diz-as'trus-li), adv. tunately; in a dismal manner. Disastrousness (diz-as'trus-nes), n. Unfortunateness; calamitousness. Disattach (dis-at-tach'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and attach.] To unfasten; to unloose; to sever; to break the connection of. Disattachment (dis-at-tachment), n. The act of unfixing, or state of being unfixed; disengagement; separation; detachment. Disauthorize (dis-a'thor-iz), v. t. (Prefix dis, priv., and authorize.] To deprive of credit or authority. [Rare] Disavaunce, v.t. [Fr.] To drive back. Chaucer. Disaventure, n. [Fr.] Misfortune. Chau cer. Disavouch (dis-a-vouch), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and arouch. See Vow.] To disavow. Disavow (dis-a-vou), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and arow. See Vow.] 1. To deny; to deny to be true, as a fact or charge respecting one's self; as, he was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the fact; he may disavow his name or signature. Opposed to own or acknowledge.-2. To disclaim or deny responsibility for; to disown; to reject. Kings may say. We cannot trust this ambassador's undertakings, because his senate may disavore him. Brougham. 3. To disprove; to prove the contrary of. Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom cf my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. Disavowal (dis-a-vou'al), n. Denial; dis- Disbord (dis-bord'), v.i. [Fr. déborder, to owning; rejection; repudiation. An earnest disavowal of fear often proceeds from fear. Richardson. Disavowance (dis-a-vou'ans), n. Disavowal. 'Denial and disavowance of this point.' South. Disavower (dis-a-vou'ėr), n. One who dis avows. De Disavowment + (dis-a-vou'ment), n. nial; a disowning. Disband (dis-band'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and band; Fr. débander.] 1. To dismiss from military service; to break up, as a band or body of men enlisted; as, to disband an army or a regiment; to disband troops.2. To scatter; to disperse. Some imagine that a quantity of water, sufficient to make such a deluge, was created upon that occa sion; and when the business was done, all disbanded again, and annihilated. Woodward. 3. To loosen; to unbind; to set free; to divorce; to dismiss; to discard. And therefore . . . she ought to be disbanded. Milton. 1. To retire from military service; to separate; to break up; as, the army, at the close of the war, disbands. Disband (dis-band'), v.i. Bacon. Our navy was upon the point of disbanding. 2. To separate; to dissolve connection. [Rare.] Human society may disband. Tillotson. 3. To be dissolved. When both rocks and all things shall disband. G. Herbert. Disbandment (dis-band'ment), n. The act of disbanding. Disbar (dis-bar'), v.t. pret. & pp. disbarred; ppr. disbarring. In law, to expel from the bar, as a barrister; as, the benchers of the four Inns of Court have the power of disbarring a barrister, subject to an appeal to the judges; in Scotland the Faculty of Advocates can disbar a member. Disbark (dis-bark'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and bark, a small ship; Fr. débarquer.] To land from a ship; to put on shore; to disembark. [Rare.] Disbark (dis-bark), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and bark.] To strip off the bark; to divest of bark. 'Fir-trees unsquared and only disbarked. Boyle. Disbecome (dis-be-kum'), v.t. To misbecome. Massinger. Disbelief (dis-be-lef'), n. [Prefix dis, neg., and belief] 1. Refusal of credit or faith; denial of belief; unbelief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. 2. A system of error. Nugatory disbeliefs wound off and done with.' J. Taylor. [Rare.] Disbelieve (dis-bē-lēv ́), v.t. pret. & pp. disbelieved; ppr. disbelieving. [Prefix dis, neg., and believe.] Not to believe; to hold not to be true or not to exist; to refuse to credit; as, some men disbelieve the inspiration of the Scriptures and the immortality of the soul. Disbelieve (dis-bē-lēv^), v.i. Not to believe; to deny the truth of any position; to refuse to believe in anything; especially, to refuse belief in a divine revelation. As doubt attacked faith, unbelief has avenged faith by destroying doubt. Men cease to doubt when Card. Manning. they disbelieve outright. Disbeliever (dis-be-lēv'èr), n. One who refuses belief; one who denies a thing to be true or real; an unbeliever. An humble soul is frighted into sentiments, because a man of great name pronounces heresy upon the contrary sentiments, and casts the disbeliever out of the Church. Watts. Disbench (dis-bensh'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and bench.] 1. To drive from, or cause to leave, a bench or seat. [Rare.] Sir, I hope my words disbench'd you not. 2. In law, to deprive of the status and privileges of a bencher. Shak. Disbend (dis-bend'), r.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and bend. To unbend; to relax; hence, fig. to render unfit for efficient action. As liberty a courage doth impart, So bondage doth distend, else break, the heart. Stirling Disbind (dis-bind'), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and bind. To unbind; to loosen. Mede. Disblame (dis-blam'), r. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and blame] To exonerate from blame. Disbodied (dis-bo'did), a. [Prefix dis, priv., and body.] Disembodied. Disbodied souls." Glanvill Ford. disembark-de, and bord, a bank, border.] To disembark. Chapman. Disboscationt (dis-bos-kä'shon), n. The act of disafforesting; the act of converting woodland into arable land. Scott. Disbowel (dis-bou'el), v.t. pret. & pp disbowelled; ppr. disbowelling. [Prefix dis, and bowel.] To take out the intestines; to disembowel. Spenser. [Rare.] Disbranch (dis-bransh'), v. t. [Prefix dis, and branch.] To cut off or separate, as the branch of a tree. [Rare.] Disbud (dis-bud'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and bud.] To deprive of buds or shoots; to remove the buds of, as a tree, before they have had time to grow into young branches. This is done not only for the purpose of training, but also in order that there may be a greater supply of nourishment for the development of those buds which are allowed to remain. Disburden (dis-ber'den), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and burden. See BURDEN.] 1. To remove a burden from; to rid of a burden; to relieve of anything weighty, oppressive, or annoying; to disencumber; to unburden; to unload. He did it to disburden a conscience. Fellham. My meditations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Sidney. 2. To lay off or aside as oppressive or annoying; to get rid of; to relieve one's self 3. To discharge the fæces; to ease by stool. Swift. SYN. To unload, discharge, disencumber, lighten, disembarrass, free, relieve. Disburden (dis-ber'den), v.i. To ease the mind; to be relieved. Adam Thus to disburden sought with sad complaint. Milton. Disburgeon (dis-bėr'jon), r.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and burgeon.] To strip of buds or burgeons. Disburse (dis-bèrs'), rv.t. pret. & pp. disbursed; ppr. disbursing. [Prefix dis, and burse, Fr. bourse, a purse. See BURSE.] To pay out, as money; to spend or lay out; to expend. Disbursement (dis-bêrs'ment), n. [See DISBURSE.] 1. The act of paying out, as money from a public or private chest. 2. The money or sum paid out; expenditure; as, the annual disbursements exceed the income. Disburser (dis-bėrs'èr), n. One who pays out or disburses money. Disburthen (dis-ber'тHen), v.t. and i. To disburden (which see). Disc, Disk (disk), n. [L. discus. See DISH and DESK.] 1. A quoit; a circular piece of stone, iron, or copper, used by the ancients in games. Some whirl the disk, and some the jav'lin dart. 2. Any flat, circular plate or surface, as of a piece of metal, the face of the sun, moon, or a planet, as it appears projected in the heavens, the width of the aperture of a telescope glass, &c. So through the Plymouth woods John Alden went on his errand, Came to an open space and saw the disk of the Longfellow. ocean. 3. In bot. (a) the name given to the markings on the woody fibre of certain trees, as the conifers, as seen in a longitudinal section of the wood. These discs sometimes appear a as simple discs, and sometimes with smaller circles in the centre. They are formed by concavities on the outside of the walls of contiguous tubes, closely applied to each other so as to form lenticular cavities between the vessels, like two watch-glasses in apposition. In the centre of the depres sion there is a canal, often funnel-shaped, Disc-bearing Wood-cells and the part of the tube corresponding to it being thus thinner than the surrounding texture gives the aspect of the smaller circle in the centre. When this smaller circle appears in the centre of the discs the woody tissue is said to be glandular or punctated. Figs. a a show the discs. When a thin section is of the Pine. one formed by a more or less thick fleshy substance spread out upon the inner wall of the calyx, as in the cherry and almond. Discal (disk'al), a. Pertaining to or resembling a disc. Discalceate † (dis-kal'sē-āt), v.t. [L. discalccatus, unshod-dis, priv., and calceus, a shoe] To pull or strip off shoes or sandals from Cockeram. Discalceation (dis-kal-se-a'shon), n. The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. The custom of discalceation, or putting off their shoes at reals, is conceived to have been done, as by that means keeping their beds clean. Sir T. Browne. Discamp (dis kamp), v.t. To force from a camp Holland Discander dis-kand′èr), v.i. To squander. See DICANDY Discandy (dis kan'di), vi. [Prefix dis, and candy! To melt; to dissolve. [Obsolete and American j Discard (dis-kärd'), v.t. [Prefix dis, priv., and card. The Sp. descartar is to throw cards out of one's hands at certain games; hence, to put away, to reject.] 1. To throw out of the hand, applied to such cards as are not played in the course of the game.--2. To dismiss from service or employment, or from society, to cast off. They blame the favourites, and think it nothing extranndary that the queen should... resolve to dard them Swift. 3 To thrust away; to reject; as, to discard prejudices. A man duvards the follies of boyhood. F. Taylor. SYN To dismiss, reject, cast off, discharge, cashier Discard (di-kard'), r.i. In card-playing, to throw out of the hand such cards as are not to be played in the course of the game. The players take up their cards, and either proceed to pay the n or to discard. Eng. Ency. Discard (dis-kard), n. In card-playing, (a) the act of throwing out of the hand such cants as are unnecessary in the game. After the durard, or, if there is no discard, after the deal, the non-deaier leads any card he deems fit. Eng. Ency (b) The card or cards thrown out of the hand. The dinnerdat be placed face downwards on the ta' at art from the stock and from the adversary's ... and Cavendish. Discardure (dis-kard'ür), n. Dismissal; rejection. In what shane does it constitute a plea for the discardure id ant Hayter. Discarnate (dis-kār′nāt), a... [L. dis, priv., and our carnis, flesh.] Stripped of flesh. *A load of broken and discarnate bones.' Gawisile 45 Discase (dis-kas), v. t. [Prefix dis, priv., and case.] To take off a covering from; to strip; to undress. Discase thee instantly, and change garments with this gentleman. Shak Disc-coupling (disk'ku-pl-ing), n. In mach. a kind of permanent coupling consisting of two discs keyed on the connected ends of the two shafts. In one of the discs are two recesses, into which two corresponding pro Disc-coupling. jections on the other disc are received, and thus the two discs become locked together. This kind of coupling wants rigidity, and must be supported by a journal on each side, but it possesses the double advantage of being easily adjusted and disconnected. Disceptationt (dis-sep-ta'shon), n. [L. disceptatio, from discepto, to settle a dispute, to dispute-dis, and capto, to catch at, from capio, to take.] Controversy. The proposition is such as ought not to be admitted in any science or any disceptation. Barrow. Disceptator+ (dis'sep-tat-ér), n. [L. See DISCEPTATION.] A disputant. The inquisitive disceptators of this age would, at the persuasion of illiterate persons, turn their ergo into amen to the evangelical philosopher. Cowley. Discern (diz-zérn), v.t. [L. discerno-dis, and cerno, to separate or distinguish, Gr. krino, to distinguish; to judge; Skr. kri, to separate, to know.] 1. To distinguish: to see the difference between two or more things; to discriminate; as, to discern the blossombuds from the leaf-buds of plants. Discern thou what is thine. Gen. xxxi. 32. Discern (diz-zěrn'), v.i. 1. To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood. To discern between a subject and a rebel.' Locke.-2.† To have judicial cognizance. It discerneth of forces, frauds, crimes various, of stellionate, &c. Bacon. Discernable, a. Same as Discernible. Discernancet (dis-sêrn'ans), n. Discern ment. Discerner (diz-zêrn'èr), n. 1. One who sees, discovers, or distinguishes; an observer. 2. One who knows and judges; one who has the power of distinguishing. He was a great observer and discerner of men's natures and humours. Clarendon. a 3. That which distinguishes or separates; that which enables us to understand. The word of God is quick and powerful discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Heb. iv. 12. Discernible (diz-zérn'i-bl), a. That may be seen distinctly; discoverable by the eye or the understanding; distinguishable; as, the star is discernible by the eye; the identity or difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding. Too many traces of the bad habits the soldiers had contracted were discernible till the close of the war. Macaulay. SYN. Perceptible, perceivable, noticeable, distinguishable, apparent, visible, evident, manifest. Discernibleness (diz-zèrn'i-bl-nes), n. Visibleness. DISCHARGE Discernibly (diz-zérn’i-bli), adv. In a manner to be discerned, seen, or discovered; visibly. Discerning (diz-zérn'ing), p. and a. 1. Distinguishing; seeing; discovering; knowing; judging.-2. Having power to discern; capable of seeing, discriminating, knowing, and judging; sharp-sighted; penetrating; acute; as, a discerning man or mind. This hath been maintained not only by warm enthusiasts, but by cooler and more discerning heads. Bp. Atterbury. Discerning (diz-zérn'ing), n. The act or power of discerning; discernment. With Discerningly (diz-zèrn'ing-li), adv. discernment; acutely; with judgment; skilfully. Discernment (diz-zèrn'ment), n. 1. The act of discerning.-2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another, as truth from falsehood, virtue from vice; acuteness of judgment; power of perceiving differences of things or ideas, and their relations and tendencies; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment. The third operation of the mind is discernment, which expresses simply the separation of our ideas. F. D. Morell. SYN. Judgment, acuteness, discrimination, acumen, clear-sightedness, penetration, sagacity. Discerpt (dis-sérp'), v.t. [L. discerpo, to pluck-dis, asunder, and carpo, to pluck.] 1. To tear in pieces; to rend. This (sedition) divides, yea, and discerps a city. Dr. Griffith. 2. To separate; to select; to disjoin. Warburton. Discerpibility, Discerptibility (dis-serp'ibil'i-ti, dis-serp'ti-bil'i-ti), n. Capability or liableness to be torn asunder or disunited. Discerpible, Discerptible (dis-serp'i-bl, dis-serp'ti-bl), a. [L. discerpo, to pluckdis, asunder, and carpo, to seize, to tear.] That may be torn asunder; separable; capable of being disunited by violence. Discerption (dis-serp'shon), n. The act of pulling to pieces or of separating the parts. Discerptive (dis-serp'tiv), a. Capable of separating or dividing. N. B. Rev. Discessiont (dis-ses'shon), n. [L. discessio, a separation, departure-dis, asunder, and cedo, cessum, to go.] Departure. Discharge (dis-charj'), v. t. pret. & pp. discharged; ppr. discharging. [Prefix dis, and charge. Fr. décharger, to discharge.] 1. To unload, as a ship; to take out, as a cargo: applied both to the ship and the loading. We say, to discharge a ship; but more generally, to discharge a cargo or the lading of the ship. 2. To free from any load or burden; to throw off or exonerate; as, discharged of business. 3. In arch. to relieve a beam or any other piece of timber too much loaded by an incumbent weight of building, in which case the weight is said to be discharged; to distribute or relieve the pressure of.-4. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to make the charge of to fly off; to fire off; as, to discharge a bow, a catapult, a pistol. The galleys also did oftentimes out of their prows discharge their great pieces against the city. Knolles. 5. To let fly; to shoot; to emit, or send out; to give vent to; as, to discharge a ball or grape-shot; a pipe discharges water; an ulcer discharges blood; to discharge fury or vengeance: applied also to an electrical jar, battery, &c., charged with electricity, to signify the removing of the charge. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. Shak. 6. To deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to pay; as, to discharge a debt, a bond, a note. I will discharge my bond. Shak. 7. To satisfy, as a person to whom anything is due; to pay one's debt to; as, he discharged his creditors.-8. To free from claim or demand; to give an acquittance, or a receipt in full to, as to a debtor; as, the creditor discharged his debtor. 9. To free from an obligation, duty, or labour; to relieve; as, to discharge a man from further duty or service; to discharge a surety. It is when Milton escapes from the shackles of the dialogue, when he is discharged from the labour of uniting two incongruous styles, when he is at liberty to indulge his choral raptures without reserve, that he rises even above himself. Macaulay. 10. To clear from an accusation or crime; to |