Verb

(obsolete) To drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.i:

For she was giuen all to fleshly lust, / And poured forth in sensuall delight, / That all regard of shame she had discust , / And meet respect of honour put to flight

* Rambler

a pomade of virtue to discuss pimples

* Sir H. Wotton

Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection.

To converse or debate concerning a particular topic.

Let's sit down and discuss this rationally.

I don't wish to discuss this further. Let's talk about something else.

(obsolete) To communicate, tell, or disclose (information, a message, etc.).

* , Merry Wives of Windsor , act 1, sc. 3:

Nym : I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.

* , Henry V , act 4, sc. 1:

Pistol : Discuss unto me; art thou officer? Or art thou base, common and popular?

To break to pieces; to shatter.

To deal with, in eating or drinking.

* Sir S. Baker

We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us.

To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety.

Verb

(explor)

(obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.

To examine or investigate something systematically.

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To travel somewhere in search of discovery.

(medicine) To examine diagnostically.

To (seek) experience first hand.

To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.

To wander without any particular aim or purpose.

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They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.