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ies are those of inspection, and embrace everything relative to organization, recruiting, discharge, administration, accountability for money and property, instruction, police, and discipline.

ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.

fluence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. Cowper.

A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum. Holland.

A discharge of flux, as of blood. Matt. ix. 20.

A discharge of official duty involving frequent change of residence; the custom or practice of discharging official duty in this way; also, a body of persons who thus discharge official duty.

The recoil of a musket or other firearm, when discharged.

oin; to cause to grow together. Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge. Wiseman.

let loose, to remove restraint from; to permit to wander at large. -- To let off (a) To discharge; to let fly, as an arrow; to fire the charge of, as a gun. (b) To release, as from an engagement or obligation. [Colloq.] To let out. (a) To allow to go forth; as, to let out a prisoner. (b) To extend or loosen, as the f…

A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

more than sufficient; abundant; bountiful; ample; profuse; as, a liberal gift; a liberal discharge of matter or of water. His wealth doth warrant a liberal dower. Shak.

A diarrhea, in which the food is discharged imperfectly digested, or with but little change. Dunglison.

A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another, sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere constitutes thunder.

sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness). Abbott.

ebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the assets may be applied toward their discharge.

The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.

ification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.

A letting go; discharge. B. Jonson. To give a loose, to give freedom. Vent all its griefs, and give a loose to sorrow. Addison.

To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of. Bacon.

orpuscles. It is absorbed from the various tissues and organs of the body, and is finally discharged by the thoracic and right lymphatic ducts into the great veins near the heart.