Part 3176

<h1>Discharge</h1> <Xpage=419>

<hw>Dis*charge"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; <as>as, the water pipe <ex>discharges</ex> freely</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not <b>discharge</b>. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Discharge</h1> <Xpage=419>

<hw>Dis*charge"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82charge</ets>. See <er>Discharge</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; <as>as, the <ex>discharge</ex> of a ship; <ex>discharge</ex> of a cargo.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; <as>as, a <ex>discharge</ex> of arrows, of artillery</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; <as>as, the <ex>discharge</ex> of a debtor</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.</def>

<blockquote>Indefatigable in the <b>discharge</b> of <b>business</b>. <i>Motley.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Nothing can absolve us from the <b>discharge</b> of those duties. <i>L'Estrange.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; <as>as, the <ex>discharge</ex> of a workman by his employer</as>.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Legal release from confinement; liberation; <as>as, the <ex>discharge</ex> of a prisoner</as>.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.</def>

<blockquote>Too secure of our <b>discharge</b> From penalty. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.</def>

<blockquote>Death, who sets all free, Hath paid his ransom now and full <b>discharge</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; <as>as, a rapid <ex>discharge</ex> of water from the pipe</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The hemorrhage being stopped, the next occurrence is a thin serous <b>discharge</b>. <i>S. Sharp.</i></blockquote>

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<cs><col>Charge and discharge</col>. <fld>(Equity Practice)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Charge</er>, <tt>n.</tt></cd> -- <col>Paralytic discharge</col> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld>, <cd>the increased secretion from a gland resulting from the cutting of all of its nerves.</cd></cs>

<h1>Discharger</h1> <Xpage=420>

<hw>Dis*char"ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.</def>

<h1>Dischevele</h1> <Xpage=420>

<hw>Dis*chev"ele</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Disheveled.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Dischurch</h1> <Xpage=420>

<hw>Dis*church"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To deprive of status as a church, or of membership in a church.</def>