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To melt; to dissolve; to thaw. [Obs.]

See Descant, n.

To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate. [R.]

To cast off as useless or as no longer of service; to dismiss from employment, confidence, or favor; to discharge; to turn away. They blame the favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should . . . resolve to discard them. Swift.

Rejection; dismissal. [R.] Hayter.

Stripped of flesh. [Obs.] "Discarnate bones." Glanvill.

To strip; to undress. Shak.

To yield or give up; to depart. [Obs.] I dare not discede from my copy a tittle. Fuller.

To debate; to discuss. [R.] One dissertates, he is candid; Two must discept, -- has distinguished. R. Browning.

Controversy; disputation; discussion. [Archaic] Verbose janglings and endless disceptations. Strype.

One who arbitrates or decides. [R.] Cowley.

To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. Boyle. A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern from a right stone. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Discernment. [Obs.]

One who, or that which, discerns, distinguishes, perceives, or judges; as, a discerner of truth, of right and wrong. A great observer and discerner of men's natures. Clarendon.

Capable of being discerned by the eye or the understanding; as, a star is discernible by the eye; the identity of difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding. The effect of the privations and sufferings . . . was discernible to the last in his temper and deportment. Macaulay.

The quality of being discernible.

In a manner to be discerned; perceptibly; visibly. Hammond.

Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. Macaulay.

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth.

The act of discerning.