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A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.

An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.

A hard, painful, inflamed tumor, which, on suppuration, discharges pus, mixed with blood, and discloses a small fibrous mass of dead tissue, called the core. A blind boil, one that suppurates imperfectly, or fails to come to a head. -- Delhi boil (Med.), a peculiar affection of the skin, probably parasitic in origin,…

To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

beetle (Brachinus crepitans), so called because, when disturbed, it makes an explosive discharge of a pungent and acrid vapor from its anal glands. The name is applied to other related species, as the B. displosor, which can produce ten or twelve explosions successively. The common American species is B. fumans.…

(F., prop. good woman.) A female servant charged with the care of a young child.

One who keeps accounts; one who has the charge of keeping the books and accounts in an office.

one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.

ttends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge.

A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.

To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.]

An attendant at a theater who has charge of the boxes.

generally under a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout.

, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.

A man in charge of a brake or brakes.

Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.

h closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired.

and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged.