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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Discharge \Dis*charge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Discharged}; p. pr & vb n. {Discharging}.] [OE. deschargen dischargen, OF deschargier F. d['e]charger; pref. des- (L. dis) + chargier, F. charger. See {Charge}.] 1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as to discharge a vessel. 2. 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. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. --Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. --H. Spencer. 3. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. Discharged of business, void of strife. --Dryden. In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. --L'Estrange. 4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks. --Shak. Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see --Milton. 5. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as to discharge a prisoner. 6. 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. 7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. --Shak. 8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. We say such an order was ``discharged on appeal.'' --Mozley & W. The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. --Macaulay. 9. To throw off the obligation of as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like hence to perform or execute, as an office, or part Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge. --Dryden. 10. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. --Shak. 11. To give forth; to emit or send out as a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to to utter; as to discharge a horrible oath. 12. To prohibit; to forbid. [Scot. Obs.] --Sir W. Scott. {Discharging arch} (Arch.), an arch over a door, window, or other opening, to distribute the pressure of the wall above. See Illust. of {Lintel}. {Discharging piece}, {Discharging strut} (Arch.), a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. {Discharging rod} (Elec.), a bent wire, with knobs at both ends and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See {Discharger}. Syn: See {Deliver}.
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