Discharge
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process; as, to discharge the color from a dyed fabric in order to form light figures on a dark ground.
(2): ( n.) The equalization of a difference of electric potential between two points. The character of the discharge is mostly determined by the nature of the medium through which it takes place, the amount of the difference of potential, and the form of the terminal conductors on which the difference exists. The discharge may be alternating, continuous, brush, connective, disruptive, glow, oscillatory, stratified, etc.
(3): ( v. t.) To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
(4): ( v. t.) Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner.
(5): ( v. t.) The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal.
(6): ( v. t.) 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.
(7): ( v. t.) A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe.
(8): ( v. t.) To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
(9): ( v. t.) To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
(10): ( 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.
(11): ( v. t.) To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear.
(12): ( v. t.) To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
(13): ( v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.
(14): ( v. t.) 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.
(15): ( v. t.) To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
(16): ( v. t.) Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
(17): ( v. t.) That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document.
(18): ( v. t.) Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer.
(19): ( v. t.) 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.
(20): ( v. t.) To prohibit; to forbid.
(21): ( 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.
(22): ( v. t.) The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo.
(23): ( v. t.) Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery.
(24): ( v. t.) Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor.
King James Dictionary [2]
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.
Holman Bible Dictionary [3]
Leviticus 15:2-25 Numbers 5:2 Leviticus 15:2-25 Leviticus 15:19 Leviticus 15:25
