discalced

[Lat. discalceatus =unshod: dis (neg.), and calceatus =shod.] Church History : 1426 *dis-cănt', v . & 8. [DESCANT.] dis-cănt, s. [Lat. dis = twice, and cantus = a song.] Music: A double-song; originally the melody or counterpoint sung with a plain-song; thence the upper voice or leading melody in a piece of part music; and thence the canto, cantus, or soprano the C'clef. (Grove.) voice, which was, as late as Mendel ohn, written in dis-ca-păç-i-tāte, v. t. [Pref. dis, and Eng. capacitate (q. v.).] To incapacitate; to make unfit or incapable. dis-card', v . t. & i. [Pref. dis , and Eng. card (q.v.); Sp. descartar ; O. Fr. escarter ; Fr. écarter: Ital. scart are to throw away cards from the hand.] [DECARD.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Lit.: In the same sense as II. "The elder hand is entitled to discard five cards." Field. 2. Figuratively : (1) To throw off or away; to get rid of. "I here discard my sickne ." Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, ii. 1. (2) To dismi from service, employment, or close intimacy; to disown, to cast off. "William, indeed, was not the man to discard an old friend."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xxiii. (3) To renounce, to disown, to reject. "Henry of Hoheneck I discard !" Long fellow: Golden Legend, iv. *(4) To free, to disencumber, to deprive. "I only discard myself of those things that are noxious to my body." -Gentleman Instructed , p. 293. II. Cards: To throw away from the hand certain cards which have been dealt to the player, but are not used or needed by him. In whist when a player is unable to follow suit, and does not trump, he throws away or discards one of another suit. B. Intransitive: Cards: To throw certain cards out of the hand. "We should discard from the best protected suit-viz., the small diamond. Reasons in full will be found in any book which treats of discarding from strength to the adverse trump lead." - Field. dis-card', s. [DISCARD, v.] Cards: 1. The act of discarding or throwing out of the hand such cards as are not nece ary. "After the discard , or if there is no discard , after the deal, the non-dealer leads any card he thinks fit."- Eng lish Encyclopædia. discern dis-çěl-1-ā-çě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. disceli (um) and Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.] Bot.: A family of operculate Acrocarpous Mo es, of gregarious habits, very dwarf and stemle , arising from a green prothallium spreading on the ground. ( Griffith & Henfrey .)