disclosure (disklozur)

[ An unseasonable disclosure of flashes of wit may sometimes do a man no other service than to direct his ad versaries how they may do him a mischief. Boyle, Occasional Reflections, § 3. IMG:content-2756.png:[blocks in formation] disclandert (dis-klan'der), v. t. [ dis- To divest of a clout or covering. klanderen, desclandren , disc laund ren , later de- slaunder (Palsgrave), slander; from the noun.] To slander; speak abusively of. Though must he buy his vainer hope with price, Disclout his crownes, and thank him for advice. Discobolus.-Vatican Museum, Rome. the discus; one engaged in the exercise of throwing the discus; specifically [ cap.], a famous ancient statue by Myron (fifth century B. C.), representing a man in the act of throwing a discus. Compare, for example, the other well-known type of a discobolus , who, as seen in two statues in Rome, stands with one foot drawn back in the act of beginning to collect his impulse for the throw. A. S. Murray, Greek Sculpture, L. 233, [