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lings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith. Far from the duplicity wickedly charged on him, he acted his part with alacrity and resolution. Burke.

m, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

Difficult or painful discharge of urine.

rtaining to the earth or to, this world; earthly; terrestrial; carnal. [R.] "Their earthy charge." Milton. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy. 1 Cor. xv. 47, 48 (Rev. Ver. ) Earthy spirits black and envious are. Dryden.…

A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.

specially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Himself busy in charge of the household economies. Froude.

terized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

The office or charge of an editor; care and superintendence of a publication.

is education. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge. H. Spenser.

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke.

The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." Eustace. "The ejection of a word." Johnson.

Made of elder. [Obs.] He would discharge us as boys do eldern guns. Marston.

Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it.

The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.

To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.

ence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.

An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.

The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message. He sends the angels on embassies with his decrees. Jer. Taylor.

lerk of his employer's; embezzlement of public funds by the public officer having them in charge.