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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.

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

See Descant, n.

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

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.

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).