Part 329

How softly on the Spanish shore she plays, Disclosing rock, and slope, and forest brown!

Byron.

Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose.

Pope.

4. To make known, as that which has been kept secret or hidden; to reveal; to expose; as, events have disclosed his designs.

If I disclose my passion, Our friendship 's an end.

Addison.

Syn. -- To uncover; open; unveil; discover; reveal; divulge; tell; utter.

Dis*close", n. Disclosure. [Obs.] Shak. Young.

Dis*closed" (?), p. a. (Her.) Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.

Dis*clos"er (?), n. One who discloses.

Dis*clo"sure (?; 135), n. [See Disclose, v. t., and cf. Closure.] 1. The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure.

He feels it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure.

D. Webster.

2. That which is disclosed or revealed.

Were the disclosures of 1695 forgotten?

Macaulay.

Dis*cloud" (?), v. t. To clear from clouds. [Archaic] Fuller.

Dis*clout" (?), v. t. To divest of a clout. [R.]

Dis*clu"sion (?), n. [L. disclusio, fr. discludere, disclusum, to separate. See Disclose.] A shutting off; exclusion. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Dis*coast" (?), v. i. [Pref. dis- + coast: cf. It. discostare.] To depart; to quit the coast (that is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated. [Obs.]

As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie.

G. Fletcher.

To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech.

Barrow.

Dis`co*blas"tic (?), a. [Gr. &?; disk + &?; to grow.] (Biol.) Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.

||Dis*cob"o*lus (?), n.; pl. Discoboli (#). [L., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; a discu + &?; to throw.] (Fine Arts) (a) A thrower of the discus. (b) A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it.

The Discobolus of Myron was a famous statue of antiquity, and several copies or imitations of it have been preserved.