Search the Dictionary

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. Knight.

A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.

To discharge ordure or dung upon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

order Araceæ. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will boycott you. John Swinton.

To be resplendent. Macaulay. To blaze away, to discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. [Colloq.]

An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus.

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.

A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core. A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. -- Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin,…

To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

of beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is B. fumans.…

To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.]

ier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.

hich closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

on and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged.

A discharge of or from all the guns on one side of a ship, at the same time.

enjoy a brush across the country. Cornhill Mag. Electrical brush, a form of the electric discharge characterized by a brushlike appearance of luminous rays diverging from an electrified body.