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To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heavi…

To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.

Removal from office or employment; discharge, either with honor or with disgrace.

To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.

To discharge; to explode. In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.

o cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.

To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.

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

to sail down the sound. Down the country, toward the sea, or toward the part where rivers discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.

bscess, etc. Drainage tube (Surg.), a tube introduced into a wound, etc., to draw off the discharges.

To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman.

To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops. The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God. Ps. lxviii. 8.

ities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops.

ctum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

Difficult or painful discharge of urine.

A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.

racterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

d his education. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge. H. Spenser.

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke.