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DISCHARGE,

1. To unload, as a ship to take out, as a cargo applied both to the ship and the loading. We say, to discharge a ship but more generally, to discharge a cargo or the lading of the ship.

2. To free from any load or burden to throw off or exonerate as, discharge of business.

3. To throw off a load or charge to let fly to shoot applied to fire-arms as, to dis-charge a pistol or a cannon or to discharge a ball or grape-shot.

4. To pay as, to discharge a debt, a bond, a note.

5. To send away, as a creditor by payment of what is due to him. He discharge his creditors.

6. To free from claim or demand to give an acquittance to, or a receipt in full, as to a debtor. The creditor discharged his debtor.

7. To free from an obligation as, to discharge a man from further duty or service to discharge a surety.

8. To clear from an accusation or crime to acquit to absolve to set free with of as, to discharge a man of all blame.

9. To throw off or out to let fly to give vent to as, to discharge a horrible oath to discharge fury or vengeance.

10. To perform or execute, as a duty or office considered as a charge. One man discharges the office of a sheriff another that of a priest. We are all bound to discharge the duties of piety, of benevolence and charity.

11. To divest of an office or employment to dismiss from service as, to discharge a steward or a servant to discharge a soldier or seaman to discharge a jury.

12. To dismiss to release to send away from any business or appointment.

Discharge your powers to their several counties.

13. To emit or send out as, an ulcer discharges pus a pipe discharges water.

14. To release to liberate from confinement as, to discharge a prisoner.

15. To put away to remove to clear from to destroy. In general, to throw off any load or incumbrance to free or clear.

DISCHARGE, To break up.

The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge.

DISCHARGE, n.

1. An unloading, as of a ship as the discharge of a cargo.

2. A throwing out vent emission applied to a fluid, a flowing or issuing out, or a throwing out as the discharge of water from a spring, or from a spout applied to fire-arms, an explosion as a discharge of cannon.

3. That which is thrown out matter emitted as a thin serous discharge a purulent discharge.

4. Dismission from office or service or the writing which evidences the dismission. The general, the soldier, obtains a discharge.

5. Release from obligation, debt or penalty or the writing which is evidence of it an acquittance as, the debtor has a discharge.

6. Absolution from a crime or accusation acquittance.

7. Ransom liberation price paid for deliverance.

8. Performance execution applied to an office, trust or duty. A good man is faithful in the discharge of his duties, public and private.

9. Liberation release from imprisonment or other confinement.

10. Exemption escape.

There is no discharge in that war. Ecclesiastes 8 .

11. Payment, as of a debt.