. A sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it becomes due. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + counsel: cf. OF. desconseiller. ] To dissuade. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Discounting. ] [ OF. desconter, descompter, to deduct, F. décompter to discount; pref. des- (L. dis-) + conter, compter. See Count, v. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Discount only unexceptionable paper. Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event). [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To leave out of account; to take no notice of. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of the three opinions (I discount Brown's). Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décompte. See Discount, v. t. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The rate of interest charged in discounting. [ 1913 Webster ]

At a discount, below par, or below the nominal value; hence, colloquially, out of favor; poorly esteemed; depreciated. --
Bank discount, a sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal (face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until it become due. --
Discount broker, one who makes a business of discounting commercial paper; a bill broker. --
Discount day, a particular day of the week when a bank discounts bills. --
True discount, the interest which, added to a principal, will equal the face of a note when it becomes due. The principal yielding this interest is the present value of the note. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discountenanced p. pr. & vb. n. Discountenancing ] [ Pref. dis- + countenance: cf. OF. descontenancer, F. décontenancer. ] 1. To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. [ 1913 Webster ]

How would one look from his majestic brow . . .
Discountenance her despised! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage. [ 1913 Webster ]

He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who discounts; a discount broker. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discouraged p. pr. & vb. n. Discouraging ] [ Pref. dis- + courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. décourager: pref. des- (L. dis-) + corage, F. courage. See Courage. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.

Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade; disfavor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of courage; cowardliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. descouragement, F. découragement. ] 1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. “Discouragements from vice.” Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who discourages. [ 1913 Webster ]

The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To discover. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That none might her discoure. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Discoursed p. pr. & vb. n. Discoursing. ] 1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. [ Obs. ] “Have sense or can discourse.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To relate something; to tell. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To treat of something in writing and formally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. discursus a running to and fro, discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See Course. ] 1. 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. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conversation; talk. [ 1913 Webster ]

In their discourses after supper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Dealing; transaction. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse
Betwixt Tigranes and our king, and how
We got the victory. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter or give forth; to speak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It will discourse most eloquent music. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To talk to; to confer with. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. [ 1913 Webster ]

In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Discursive. ] 1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory. [ 1913 Webster ]

The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason. [ R. ] Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. dis- + courteous: cf. OF. discortois. ] Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. dis- + courtesy: cf. OF. descourtoisie. ] Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want of courtesy. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. discus disk. See Disk. ] Disklike; discoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. everything which may be considered, explicitly or implicitly, in a particular theory or discussion. [ PJC ]