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To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting. [Obs.] Cockeram.

ted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.

To unload; to disburden; to discharge. [Obs.] All exonerate themselves into one common duct. Ray.

Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. -- n.

To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.] Then he another and another [shaft] did expel. Spenser. .

A discharge of saliva by spitting. [R.] E. Darwin.

The act of exuding; sweating; a discharge of humors, moisture, juice, or gum, as through pores or incisions; also, the substance exuded. Resins, a class of proximate principles, existing in almost all plants and appearing on the external surface of many of them in the form of exudations. Am. Cyc.

To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. Our forests exude turpentine in . . . abundance. Dr. T. Dwight.

o become unable to meet one's engagements; especially, to be unable to pay one's debts or discharge one's business obligation; to become bankrupt or insolvent.

To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower. Raymond.

A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharge corrupt matter; a pustule.

Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially:

The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were exposed to a heavy fire. Blue fire, Red fire, Green fire (Pyrotech.), compositions of various combustible substances, as sulphur, niter, lampblack, etc., the flames of which are colored by various metallic salts, as those of antimony, strontium, barium, etc. -- Fi…

A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula. Incomplete fistula (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.…

An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus. Dunglison.

To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.

Menstrual discharges. Lev. xv. 24. Animal flower (Zoöl.) See under Animal. -- Cut flowers, flowers cut from the stalk, as for making a bouquet. -- Flower bed, a plat in a garden for the cultivation of flowers. -- Flower beetle (Zoöl.), any beetle which feeds upon flowers, esp. any one of numerous small species of th…