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the favorites, and think it nothing extraordinary that the queen should . . . resolve to discard them. Swift.

Rejection; dismissal. [R.] Hayter.

One of a sect of visionaries, who, professing to imitate the state of Adam, discarded the use of dress in their assemblies.

To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of frust. They have cashiered several of their followers. Addison. He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay.

One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. [R.] Burke.

To dismiss; to discard; to cashier. [Obs.] The state can not with safety casthim.

A coat card. See below. [Obs.] Here's a trick of discarded cards of us! We were ranked with coats as long as old master lived. Massinger. Coat armor. See under Armor. -- Coat of arms (Her.), a translation of the French cotte d'armes, a garment of light material worn over the armor in the 15th and 16th centuries. This…

The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

To discard. [Obs.] You have cast those by, decarded them. J. Fletcher.

To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.

A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.

A kind of discarder.

To shake off; to discard. [R.] To excuss the notation of a Geity out of their minds. Bp. Stillingfleet.

cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. Shak. To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.

surdities. Johnson. Many gross improprieties, however authorized by practice, ought to be discarded. Swift.

To play the jilt; to practice deception in love; to discard lovers capriciously. Congreve.

onsideration; as, the papers are laid before Congress. -- To lay by. (a) To save. (b) To discard. Let brave spirits . . . not be laid by. Bacon. -- To lay by the heels, to put in the stocks. Shak. -- To lay down. (a) To stake as a wager. (b) To yield; to relinquish; to surrender; as, to lay down one's life; to lay do…

e, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard. To throw overboard, to discard; to abandon, as a dependent or friend.

Privacy; retirement. [Archaic] "Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private." Shak.

Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship. -- To put away. (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce. -- To put back. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny. Coming from thee, I could not put him back. Shak.