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To injure one's good name; to slander. [Obs.]

To take off a cloak from; to uncloak. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

s in the sense of to hatch. The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them. Bacon.

Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey. Cussans.

One who discloses.

The act of disclosing, uncovering, or revealing; bringing to light; exposure. He feels it [his secret] beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. D. Webster.

To clear from clouds. [Archaic] Fuller.

To divest of a clout. [R.]

A shutting off; exclusion. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

t is, the side or border) of anything; to be separated. [Obs.] As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.

Applied to a form of egg cleavage seen in osseous fishes, which occurs only in a small disk that separates from the rest of the egg.

A thrower of the discus.

One of the tree frogs.

A division of amphibians having suctorial disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Having sucking disks on the toes, as the tree frogs.

Incoherent. [R.]

shells which have the whorls in one plane, so as to form a disk, as the pearly nautilus. Discoid flower (Bot.), a compound flower, consisting of tubular florets only, as a tansy, lacking the rays which are seen in the daisy and sunflower.

Disk-shaped; discoid.

One of a species of coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about

or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.