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To settle amicably; to adjust by agreement; to compromise; to discharge from obligation upon terms different from those which were stipulated; as, to compound a debt. I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife. Shak. To compound a felony, to accept of a consideration for forbearing to prosecute, such compounding bei…

One who contributes, or is liable to be called upon to contribute, as toward the discharge of a common indebtedness. Abbott.

Caused or accomplished by convection; as, a convective discharge of electricity. Faraday.

The noise produced bu a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.

athode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

A large pistol formerly used. [Obs.] The Spaniards discharged their dags, and hurt some. Foxe. A sort of pistol, called dag, was used about the same time as hand guns and harquebuts. Grose.

f the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.

A discharge or flowing of humors or fluid matter, as from the nose in catarrh; -- sometimes used synonymously with inflammation. Dunglison.

To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. For the discharge of his expenses, and defraying his cost, he allowed him . . . four times as much. Usher.

The discharge of excrement.

haser, the engagement of the factor being to pay the debt himself if it is not punctually discharged by the buyer when it becomes due.

An involuntary discharge of watery humors from the eyes; wateriness of the eyes. [Obs.] Bailey.

To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball. Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears. Sidney. An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward. Sir W. Scott.

To discharge. [Obs.] As soon as the party . . . before our justices shall be depeached. Hakluyt.

A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal. Diabetes mellitus Etym: [NL., sweet diabetes], that form of diabetes in which the urine contains sacchar…

A morbidly frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations from the intestines, without tenesmus; a purging or looseness of the bowels; a flux.

useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away. They blame the favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should . . . resolve to discard them. Swift.

To put out of place or service; to discharge; to displace. [Obs.] Bacon.

To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc. Rolling down, the steep Timavdisembogues his waves. Addison.

The act of disemboguing; discharge. Mease.