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Webster 1913 Edition
Disembogue
Disˊem-bogue′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Disembogued
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Disemboguing
.] 1.
To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.
Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves,
And through nine channels
And through nine channels
disembogues
his waves. Addison.
2.
To eject; to cast forth.
[R.]
Swift.
Disˊem-bogue′
,Verb.
I.
To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents.
Volcanos bellow ere they
disembogue
. Young.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disembogue
DISEMBOGUE
,Verb.
T.
Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, and through nine channels disembogues his waves.
DISEMBOGUE
,Verb.
I.
1.
To flow out at the mouth, as a river; to discharge waters into the ocean, or into a lake. Innumerable rivers disembogue into the ocean.2.
To pass out of a gulf or bay.Definition 2024
disembogue
disembogue
English
Verb
disembogue (third-person singular simple present disembogues, present participle disemboguing, simple past and past participle disembogued)
- To come out into the open sea from a river etc.
- The ships disembogued from the harbour.
- 1612-1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, Act II, scene i, lines 36-38
- No, no, but you call careening of an old morphewed lady to make her disembogue again – there's roughcast phrase to your plastic.
- (of a river or waters) To pour out, to debouch; to flow out through a narrow opening into a larger space.
- 1828, Walter Hamilton, The East-India Gazetteer, 2nd ed., volume II, "Mooltan", page 240
- The river of Behut, near the pergunnah of Shoor, unites with the Chinaub, and then after running twenty-seven coss, they disembogue themselves into the river Sinde, near Ooch.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 99:
- ‘Oh piffle, Durfeys – it flows to the westward and disembogues along the Pepper Coast.’
- 1828, Walter Hamilton, The East-India Gazetteer, 2nd ed., volume II, "Mooltan", page 240
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Translations
to come out into the open sea from a river