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catter; to dissipate; to drive away; -- said especially of tumors. Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton. A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.

One who discusses; one who sifts or examines. Wood.

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

Pertaining to discussion.

Able or tending to discuss or disperse tumors or coagulated matter.

Not discussed. [Obs.] Donne.

coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated. Boyle.

Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation. "Religious agitations." Prescott.

To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.

the incus. See Incus. To be on the anvil, to be in a state of discussion, formation, or preparation, as when a scheme or measure is forming, but not matured. Swift.

To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued.

A process of reasoning, or a controversy made up of rational proofs; argumentation; discussion; disputation. The argument is about things, but names. Locke.

forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositions, not known or admitted as true, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that ha…

To argue or discuss. [Obs.] Wood.

I beg to inform you. -- To bag the question, to assume that which was to be proved in a discussion, instead of adducing the proof or sustaining the point by argument. -- To go a-begging, a figurative phrase to express the absence of demand for something which elsewhere brings a price; as, grapes are so plentiful the…

To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law. Jacob. To bolt to the bran, to examine thoroughly, so as to separate or discover everything important. Chaucer. This bolts the matter fairly to the bran. Harte. The report of the committee was examined and sifted and bolted to the bran. Burke.…

or recollection; as to call up the image of deceased friend. (b) To bring into action or discussion; to demand the consideration of; as, to call up a bill before a legislative body.

To examine by discussion; to debate. An opinion that we are likely soon to canvass. Sir W. Hamilton.

f a speech, usually the exordium, in which the orator sets forth the subject matter to be discussed.