Chapter Disconvenience to Discovert of D by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. To disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown).

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

Shak.

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Bacon.

We will discover ourselves unto them.

1 Sam. xiv. 8.

Discover not a secret to another.

Prov. xxv. 9.

3. To obtain for the first time sight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect.

Some to discover islands far away.

Shak.

4. To manifest without design; to show.

The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.

C. J. Smith.

5. To explore; to examine. [Obs.]

Syn. — To disclose; bring out; exhibit; show; manifest; reveal; communicate; impart; tell; espy; find; out; detect. — To Discover, Invent. We discover what existed before, but remained unknown; we invent by forming combinations which are either entirely new, or which attain their end by means unknown before. Columbus discovered America; Newton discovered the law of gravitation; Whitney invented the cotton gin; Galileo invented the telescope.

Discover
(Dis*cov"er), v. i. To discover or show one's self. [Obs.]

This done, they discover.

Decker.

Nor was this the first time that they discovered to be followers of this world.

Milton.

Discoverability
(Dis*cov`er*a*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being discoverable. [R.] Carlyle.

Discoverable
(Dis*cov"er*a*ble) a. Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

Discoverer
(Dis*cov"er*er) n.

1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.

The discoverers and searchers of the land.

Sir W. Raleigh.

2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.

Discoverment
(Dis*cov"er*ment), n. Discovery. [Obs.]

Discovert
(Dis*cov"ert) a. [Cf. F. découvert uncovered, OF. descovert. See Discover, Covert.] (Law) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; — applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

Discovert
(Dis*cov"ert), n. An uncovered place or part. [Obs.]

At discovert, uncovered. [Obs.] Chaucer.