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To free from a charm; to disenchant.

Arborescent or dendritic agate.

That can be detached.

Capable of subdividing spontaneously.

Including two passovers. Carpenter.

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

Freed from restraint; unrestrained. [Archaic] E. A. Poe.

To free from enchantment; to deliver from the power of charms or spells; to free from fascination or delusion. Haste to thy work; a noble stroke or two Ends all the charms, and disenchants the grove. Dryden.

One who, or that which, disenchants.

The act of disenchanting, or state of being disenchanted. Shelton.

To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

To load with a double charge, as of gunpowder.

An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.

A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.

A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair. Addison.

To chafe; to enrage; to heat. [Obs.] Shak.

Heating; burning. [Obs.] The wicked enchaufing or ardure of this sin [lust]. Chaucer.

To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.

The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.