Definition of discharge

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Discharge (v. i.) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely..

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Shot :: Shot (n.) A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive..
Gunlock :: Gunlock (n.) The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock..
Bloody Flux :: Bloody flux () The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood..
Void :: Void (a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) A number of coated jars (Leyden jars) so connected that they may be charged and discharged simultaneously.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery..
Empty :: Empty (v. i.) To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean..
Embogue :: Embogue (v. i.) To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into the sea or another river..
Quittance :: Quittance (v. t.) Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.
Volley :: Volley (v. i.) To be thrown out, or discharged, at once; to be discharged in a volley, or as if in a volley; to make a volley or volleys..
Crepitus :: Crepitus (n.) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.
Balistraria :: Balistraria (n.) A narrow opening, often cruciform, through which arrows might be discharged..
Exonerate :: Exonerate (v. t.) To unload; to disburden; to discharge.
Reship :: Reship (v. i.) To engage one's self again for service on board of a vessel after having been discharged.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) 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..
Dejection :: Dejection (n.) The discharge of excrement.
Sanies :: Sanies (n.) A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds..
Impetus :: Impetus (n.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.
Pip :: Pip (n.) A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a scale on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them..
Decidua :: Decidua (n.) The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it..
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