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To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine. Copland.

the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in the vessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, as in severe diarrhea.

The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

To ret or rot by the process called dewretting.

To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting.

To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished. Letting the secret die within his own breast. Spectator. Great deeds can not die. Tennyson.

Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.

The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses. Transl. of Lavoisier. A disengagement from earthly trammels. Sir W. Jones.

Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.

Rejection; a setting aside as trivial, invalid, or unworthy of consideration.

thholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve. Setting them [factions] at distance, or at least distrust amongst themselves. Bacon. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.

r while above the horizon; hence, the arc described by the moon or a star from rising to setting. -- Diurnal circle, the apparent circle described by a celestial body in consequence of the earth's rotation. -- Diurnal motion of the earth, the motion of the earth upon its axis which is described in twentyfour hours.…

s. Balance dock, a kind of floating dock which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers. -- Dry dock, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having walls and floor, often of masonry and communicating with deep…

(Naut.), to ornament her by hoisting the national colors at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full, the signal flags and pennants are added. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting. "Our drift was south." Hakluyt.

A falling or letting fall in drops; a dripping; that which drips, or falls in drops. The light drip of the suspended oar. Byron.

A drift; a tool for setting bolts home.

The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling.

To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.

Without wetting the feet.