Part 3199

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To explore; to examine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<syn>Syn. -- To disclose; bring out; exhibit; show; manifest; reveal; communicate; impart; tell; espy; find; out; detect. -- To <er>Discover</er>, <er>Invent</er>. We <i>discover</i> what existed before, but remained unknown; we <i>invent</i> by forming combinations which are either entirely new, or which attain their end by means unknown before. Columbus <i>discovered</i> America; Newton <i>discovered</i> the law of gravitation; Whitney <i>invented</i> the cotton gin; Galileo <i>invented</i> the telescope.</syn>

<h1>Discover</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cov"er</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To discover or show one's self.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>This done, they <b>discover</b>. <i>Decke<?/.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Nor was this the first time that they <b>discovered</b> to be followers of this world. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Discoverability</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cov`er*a*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being discoverable.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Carlyle.</i>

<h1>Discoverable</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cov"er*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; <as>as, many minute animals are <ex>discoverable</ex> only by the help of the microscope; truths <ex>discoverable</ex> by human industry.</as></def>

<h1>Discoverer</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cov"er*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>discoverers</b> and searchers of the land. <i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A scout; an explorer.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Discoverment</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cov"er*ment</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Discovery.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Discovert</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cov"ert</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82couvert</ets> uncovered, OF. <ets>descovert</ets>. See <er>Discover</er>, <er>Covert</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.</def>

<h1>Discovert</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cov"ert</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An uncovered place or part.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<cs><col>At discovert</col>, <cd>uncovered. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Discoverture</h1> <Xpage=422>

<hw>Dis*cov"er*ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>coverture</ets>: cf. OF. <ets>descoverture</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Discovery.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.</def>