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convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.

To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun. The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another. Boyle.

The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile. He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army. Clarendon.

A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.

ing of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun. Shunt dynamo (Elec.), a dynamo in which the field circuit is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current from the armature to maintain th…

A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency (as lightning) and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.

Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose. [Low]

Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations. Tooke.

rminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.

Pert. to or designating any form of spark tube the electric discharge within which is used in spectroscopic observations.

A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.

A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout. To put, shove, or pop, up the spout, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant]

That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

To make water; to discharge urine; -- said especially of horses and cattle. Hudibras.

Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally. -- n.

A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction.

nat.), small convoluted tubular glands which are situated in the subcutaneous tissues and discharge by minute orifices in the surface of the skin; the sweat glands.

enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties.

To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.