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At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment.

Marking distinction or separation; disjunctive. Discretive proposition (Logic & Gram.), one that expresses distinction, opposition, or variety, by means of discretive particles, as but, though, yet, etc.; as, travelers change their climate, but not their temper.

In a discretive manner.

See Disulphide.

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

Diuretic. [Obs.] Boyle.

The quality of being diuretical; diuretic property.

A doorpost. [Obs.] "As dead as a doretree." Piers Plowman.

See Drecche. [Obs.]

es on the back. They are generally white. Among the best known species are the American egret (Ardea, or Herodias, egretta); the great egret (A. alba); the little egret (A. garzetta), of Europe; and the American snowy egret (A. candidissima). A bunch of egrets killed for their plumage. G. W. Cable.

Same as Egret, n.,

Pertaining to an emporium; relating to merchandise. [Obs.] Johnson.

The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone.

A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. Hoblyn.

Relating to erethism.

Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.

Matters to be excreted.

To separate and throw off; to excrete urine. "The mucus thus excreted." Hooper.

A nonnitrogenous, crystalline body, present in small quantity in human fæces.

The act of excreting. To promote secretion and excretion. Pereira.