DPage 295
- English Word Discerning Definition Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted.
- English Word Discerningly Definition In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely.
- English Word Discernment Definition The act of discerning.
- English Word Discernment Definition The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness; sagacity; insight; as, the errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment.
- English Word Discerp Definition To tear in pieces; to rend.
- English Word Discerp Definition To separate; to disunite.
- English Word Discerpibility Definition Alt. of Discerptibility
- English Word Discerpible Definition Alt. of Discerptible
- English Word Discerptibility Definition Capability or liableness to be discerped.
- English Word Discerptible Definition Capable of being discerped.
- English Word Discerption Definition The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.
- English Word Discerptive Definition Tending to separate or disunite parts.
- English Word Discession Definition Departure.
- English Word Discharge Definition To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
- English Word Discharge Definition To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar.
- English Word Discharge Definition To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
- English Word Discharge Definition To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- English Word Discharge Definition To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
- English Word Discharge Definition To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo.
- English Word Discharge Definition To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.