a. Pertaining to the time before the Passover, or before Easter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Roger Ascham, who was a great lover of archery. ] A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. -schaften /plu>. [ G. ] In Germany, any of various associations of university students formed (the original one at Jena in 1815) to support liberal ideas, or the organization formed by the affiliation of the local bodies. The organization was suppressed by the government in 1819, but was secretly revived, and is now openly maintained as a social organization, the restrictive laws having been repealed prior to 1849. -- Bur"schen*schaft`ler Bur"schen*schaf`ter n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. di- + paschal. ] Including two passovers. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discharged p. pr. & vb. n. Discharging. ] [ OE. deschargen, dischargen, OF. deschargier, F. décharger; 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. [ 1913 Webster ]

Discharged of business, void of strife. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Discharge the common sort
With pay and thanks. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grindal . . . was discharged the government of his see. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. [ 1913 Webster ]

They do discharge their shot of courtesy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. [ 1913 Webster ]

We say such an order was “discharged on appeal.” Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

The order for Daly's attendance was discharged. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large
As could their hundred offices discharge. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If he had
The present money to discharge the Jew. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. To prohibit; to forbid. [ Scot. Obs. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. (Textile Dyeing & Printing) 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décharge. See Discharge, v. t. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Indefatigable in the discharge of business. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nothing can absolve us from the discharge of those duties. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Too secure of our discharge
From penalty. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc., as a price of ransom, a legal document. [ 1913 Webster ]

Death, who sets all free,
Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hemorrhage being stopped, the next occurrence is a thin serous discharge. S. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Elec.) 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Charge and discharge. (Equity Practice) See under Charge, n. --
Paralytic discharge (Physiol.), the increased secretion from a gland resulting from the cutting of all of its nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Shallot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. eschara, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. eschare. See Scar. ] (Med.) A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. ] (Geol.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country, deposited by streams in meltwater channels under glaciers. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams. The spelling form esker is now the most commonly used, and the term is applied in geology to similar ridges created by glaciers anywhere in the world. Eskers vary in size and extent, but can be 100 feet high and up to 100 miles long. [ Written also eskar and esker. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

‖prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a grate, a pan of coals. ] (Zoöl.) A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; an eschar: cf. F. escharotique. ] (Med.) Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the last or final things. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; the furthest, last + -logy. ] The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Exchange. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ from the older spelling Kamtschatka for Kamchatka. ] (Ethnol.) An aboriginal tribe inhabiting the southern part of the Kamchatka peninsula; called also Kamchadals and Itelmen. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ } a. [ From Russ. kalyushka piece of wood (worn in the nether lip). ] Designating, or pertaining to, a linguistic stock of North American Indians comprising the Tlinkit tribes of the Alexander Archipelago of southeastern Alaska and adjacent coast lands. Their language bears some affinity to Mexican tongues. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OF. mareschal, F. maréchal. See Marshal. ] A military officer of high rank; a marshal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., lit., sea foam; meer sea + schaum foam; but it perh. is a corruption of the Tartaric name myrsen. Cf. Mere a lake, and Scum. ] 1. (Min.) A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tobacco pipe made of this mineral; a meerschaum pipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. meschance, OF. mescheance. ] Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To happen by mischance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unlucky. R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. [ 1913 Webster ]

They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To charge erroneously, as in an account. -- n. A mistake in charging. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; musk: cf. F. moscatelline. See Muscadel, Musk. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Adoxa (Adoxa moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also hollow root and musk crowfoot. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ AS. pascha, L. pascha, Gr. &unr_;, fr. Heb. pesach, fr. pāsach to pass over: cf. OF. pasque, F. pâque. Cf. Paschal, Paas, Paque. ] The passover; the feast of Easter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pasch egg. See Easter egg, under Easter. --
Pasch flower. See Pasque flower, under Pasque. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. paschalis: cf. F. pascal. See Pasch. ] Of or pertaining to the passover, or to Easter; as, a paschal lamb; paschal eggs. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Paschal candle (R. C. Ch.), a large wax candle, blessed and placed on the altar on Holy Saturday, or the day before Easter. --
Paschal flower. See Pasque flower, under Pasque. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Shade; shadow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ English words now beginning with sh, like shade, were formerly often spelled with a c between the s and h; as, schade; schame; schape; schort, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shah. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. dial. (Swiss), waste, impurity. ] A silk yarn or fabric made out of carded spun silk. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Yiddish, fr. NHeb. shadkhān, fr. shādakh to bring about a marriage, orig., to persuade. ] A person whose business is marriage brokage; a marriage broker, esp. among certain Jews. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OF. seneschal, LL. seniscalcus, of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. sineigs old, skalks, OHG. scalch, AS. scealc. Cf. Senior, Marshal. ] An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then marshaled feast
Served up in hall with sewers and seneschale. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Philip Augustus, by a famous ordinance in 1190, first established royal courts of justice, held by the officers called baitiffs, or seneschals, who acted as the king's lieutenants in his demains. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a seneschal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. tri- + paschal. ] Including three passovers. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. (Zool.) The chameck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Scot. See Weapon, and Show. ] An exhibition of arms. according to the rank of the individual, by all persons bearing arms; -- formerly made at certain seasons in each district. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Weltanschauungen /plu>. [ G. ] Lit., world view; a conception of the course of events in, and of the purpose of, the world as a whole, forming a philosophical view or apprehension of the universe; the general idea embodied in a cosmology. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]