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To clear from blame. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Disembodied. [R.]

Converting forest land into cleared or arable land; removal of a forest. Sir W. Scott.

To disembowel. [R.] Spenser.

To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off. Shak.

To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

To rid of a burden; to free from a load borne or from something oppressive; to unload; to disencumber; to relieve. He did it to disburden a conscience. Feltham. My mediations . . . will, I hope, be more calm, being thus disburdened. Hammond.

To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. [R.] Holland.

pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury. The duty of collecting and disbursing his revenues. Macaulay. Disbursing officer, an officer in any department of the public service who is charged with the duty of paying out public money.

The act of disbursing or paying out. The disbursement of the public moneys. U. S. Statutes.

One who disburses money.

To disburden; to relieve of a load. [Archaic]

a circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

To uncage. [R.] Tennyson.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a disk; as, discal cells.

To pull off shoes or sandals from. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Deprived off shoes or sandals; unshod; discalced.

The act of pulling off the shoes or sandals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Unshod; barefooted; -- in distinction from calced. "The foundation of houses of discalced friars." Cardinal Manning's St. Teresa.

To drive from a camp. [Obs.] Holland.