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e value of the function, or an abrupt change in its law of variation, or the function may become imaginary.

iven rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due. -- Discount broker, one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker. -- Discount day, a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills. -- True discount, the interest which, added to…

To become discharged; to flow put; to find vent; to pour out contents. Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue. Young.

To release one's self; to become detached; to free one's self. From a friends's grave how soon we disengage! Young.

To become separated; to part.

Tending to disseminate, or to become disseminated. The effect of heresy is, like the plague, infectious and disseminative. Jer. Taylor.

To become unsheathed. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied. A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. Shak.

To become expanded or inflated; to swell. "His heart distends with pride." Milton.

To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible. [R.] The little embryo . . . first distinguishes into a little knot. Jer. Taylor.

To part; to fall asunder; to become separated. The joints of the body politic do separate and disunite. South.

To part into two branches; to become bifid; to fork.

shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, called the daughter ce…

o make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had been before unknown; as, to divulge a secret. Divulge not such a love as mine. Cowper.

g docks, floating docks, hydraulic docks, etc. -- Floating dock, a dock which is made to become buoyant, and, by floating, to lift a vessel out of water. -- Graving dock, a dock for holding a ship for graving or cleaning the bottom, etc. -- Hydraulic dock, a dock in which a vessel is raised clear of the water by hyd…

banquet, and innocent dodges, if we may be permitted to use an excellent phrase that has become vernacular since the appearance of the last dictionaries. Thackeray.

s which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.

To be dragged on the ground; to become wet or dirty by being dragged or trailed in the mud or wet grass. Hudibras.

To filter. Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh. Bacon.

To become contracted; to shrink. "To draw into less room." Bacon.