Verb

(head)

(disclose)

Verb

(disclos)

(obsolete) To open up, unfasten.

* Francis Bacon

The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the discloseth them.

To uncover, physically expose to view.

* Woodward

The shells being broken, the stone included in them is thereby disclosed and set at liberty.

* 1972 , Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things , McGraw-Hill 1972, p. 13:

Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside.

To expose to the knowledge of others; to make known, state openly, reveal.

* Alexander Pope

Her lively looks a sprightly mind disclose .

* Addison

If I disclose my passion, / Our friendship's at an end.

Verb

(head)

(discover)

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).

To expose, uncover.

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(chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.

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(archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.

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*Shakespeare

*:Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover / The several caskets to this noble prince.

*Francis Bacon

*:Prosperity doth best discover' vice; but adversity doth best ' discover virtue.

(obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).

*, Bk.V, ch.ix:

*:they seyde the same, and were aggreed that Sir Clegis, Sir Claryon, and Sir Clement the noble, that they sholde dyscover the woodys, bothe the dalys and the downys.

To find or learn something for the first time.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.}}

(obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.

*C. J. Smith

*:The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.

*1806 , Alexander Hunter, Culina Famulatrix Medicinæ , p.125:

*:The English Cooks keep all their Spices in separate boxes, but the French Cooks make a spicey mixture that does not discover a predominancy of any one of the spices over the others.