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an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.

f countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott.

One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon.

One who discounts; a discount broker. Burke.

o the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it becomes due.

nt abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

he use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced. --Bab"ist, n.

Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins. [India]

One who negotiates the discount of bills.

An unlawful bargain; traffic in which money is exported as discount. [Obs.] Bacon.

To discount. See Discount. Hudibras.

To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.

withhold or withdraw favor from; to regard with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance. Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey. Swift.

note, bond, or other mercantile paper, without any addition for interest or reduction for discount. McElrath.

4, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.

Equality of condition or circumstances. At par, at the original price; neither at a discount nor at a premium. -- Above par, at a premium. -- Below par, at a discount. -- On a par, on a level; in the same condition, circumstances, position, rank, etc.; as, their pretensions are on a par; his ability is on a par with…

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties. Blount. Rebated cross, a cross which has the extremities of the arms bent back at right angles, as in the fylfot.