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of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.

Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission.

To discharge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite. A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted. I. Taylor.

The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

A hole to admit or discharge air; specifically, a spot in the ice not frozen over.

A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

Of, from, in, or pertaining to, the belly or the intestines; as, alvine discharges; alvine concretions.

Retention or suppression of the menstrual discharge.

Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n.

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

ine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc. External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison.

rit which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment. Wharton.

bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged.

Any solid spherical, cylindrical, or conical projectile of lead or iron, to be discharged from a firearm; as, a cannon ball; a rifball; -- often used collectively; as, powder and ball. Spherical balls for the smaller firearms are commonly called bullets.

Being a bankrupt or in a condition of bankruptcy; unable to pay, or legally discharged from paying, one's debts; as, a bankrupt merchant.

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.