discharging

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISCHARGING, participle passive Unlading; letting fly; shooting; throwing out; emiting; dismissing from service; paying; releasing from debt, obligation or claim; acquitting; liberating; performing; executing.
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