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To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.

Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.

To rid; to free. [Obs.] I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge. Udall.

To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.

To discharge; to explode. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.

ause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.

To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine. -- n.

A charge for the use of a dock.

atherhood is out of doors. Locke. -- To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge one with a fault; to blame for. -- To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to. If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. Dryden.

sail down the sound. Down the country, toward the sea, or toward the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.

ess; undisguised; absolute; unmixed; as, downright atheism. The downright impossibilities charged upon it. South. Gloomy fancies which in her amounted to downright insanity. Prescott. -- Down"right`ly, adv. -- Down"right`ness, n.

A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

ess, etc. Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.

To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman.

The charge, or sum paid, for the use of a dray.

To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God. Ps. lxviii. 8.

es of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.

n elderly lady holding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family. Brande & C.