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.