Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered.
Discontinuation (n.) Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
Discontinued (imp. & p. p.) of Discontinue
Discontinuing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discontinue
Discontinue (v. t.) To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
Discontinue (v. i.) To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
Discontinue (v. i.) To be separated or severed; to part.
Discontinuee (n.) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.
Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.
Discontinuity (n.) Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.
Discontinuor (n.) One who deprives another of the possession of an estate by discontinuance. See Discontinuance, 2.
Discontinuous (a.) Not continuous; interrupted; broken off.
Discontinuous (a.) Exhibiting a dissolution of continuity; gaping.
Disconvenience (n.) Unsuitableness; incongruity.
Disconvenient (a.) Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.
Discophora (n. pl.) A division of acalephs or jellyfishes, including most of the large disklike species.
Discord (v. i.) Want of concord or agreement; absence of unity or harmony in sentiment or action; variance leading to contention and strife; disagreement; -- applied to persons or to things, and to thoughts, feelings, or purposes.
Discord (v. i.) Union of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord.
Discord (n.) To disagree; to be discordant; to jar; to clash; not to suit.
Discordable (a.) That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant.
Discordance (n.) Alt. of Discordancy
Discordancy (n.) State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency.
Discordant (n.) Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
Discordant (n.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
Discordant (n.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.
Discordful (a.) Full of discord; contentious.
Discordous (a.) Full of discord.
Discorporate (a.) Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate.
Discorrespondent (a.) Incongruous.
Discost (v. i.) Same as Discoast.
Discounsel (v. t.) To dissuade.
Discounted (imp. & p. p.) of Discount
Discounting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discount
Discount (v.) To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
Discount (v.) To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
Discount (v.) To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
Discount (v.) To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
Discount (v. i.) To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
Discount (v. t.) A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.
Discount (v. t.) A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
Discount (v. t.) The rate of interest charged in discounting.
Discountable (a.) Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.
Discountenanced (imp. & p. p.) of Discountenance
Discountenancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discountenance
Discountenance (v. t.) To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
Discountenance (v. t.) To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage.
Discountenance (n.) Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
Discountenancer (n.) One who discountenances; one who disfavors.
Discounter (n.) One who discounts; a discount broker.
Discouraged (imp. & p. p.) of Discourage
Discouraging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discourage
Discourage (v. t.) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
Discourage (v. t.) To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
Discourage (n.) Lack of courage; cowardliness.
Discourageable (a.) Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
Discouragement (n.) The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.
Discouragement (n.) That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement.
Discourager (n.) One who discourages.
Discouraging (a.) Causing or indicating discouragement.
Discoure (v. t.) To discover.
Discourse (n.) The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
Discourse (n.) Conversation; talk.
Discourse (n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Discourse (n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
Discourse (n.) Dealing; transaction.
Discoursed (imp. & p. p.) of Discourse
Discoursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discourse
Discourse (v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
Discourse (v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
Discourse (v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
Discourse (v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
Discourse (v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
Discourse (v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
Discourse (v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
Discourser (n.) One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.
Discourser (n.) The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
Discoursive (a.) Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive.
Discoursive (a.) Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
Discoursive (a.) Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man.
Discoursive (n.) The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason.
Discourteous (a.) Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.
Discourtesy (n.) Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
Discourtship (n.) Want of courtesy.
Discous (a.) Disklike; discoid.
Discovenant (v. t.) To dissolve covenant with.
Discovered (imp. & p. p.) of Discover
Discovering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Discover
Discover (v. t.) To uncover.
Discover (v. t.) To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).
Discover (v. t.) To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.
Discover (v. t.) To manifest without design; to show.
Discover (v. t.) To explore; to examine.
Discover (v. i.) To discover or show one's self.
Discoverability (n.) The quality of being discoverable.
Discoverable (a.) Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
Discoverer (n.) One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
Discoverer (n.) A scout; an explorer.
Discoverment (n.) Discovery.
Discovert (a.) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.
Discovert (n.) An uncovered place or part.