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decharge 120 decommettre
decharge, f., unloading; discharge; release, exoneration;
lumber room; (art., sm. a.) discharge
(of a gun, of a rifle), volley; (steam) discharge,
exhaust; (cons.) safety arch, brace; (law)
defense;
h , (law) for the defense, in favor of the prisoner;
arccau en , (cons.) relieving arch;
en , (cons.) relieving;
generale, (art., sm. a.) salvo, volley;
juridique, (law) receipt; recognition of ac-
quittal of obligations;
mur en , (cons.) relieving wall;
piece de , lumber room;
soupape de , (steam, etc.) eduction valve;
temoinb, , (law} witness for the defense;
tuyau de , delivery pipe;
vo-ute en , relieving arch.
decharge, a., unstressed, unloaded (of keys,
shafts, etc.).
decliargement, m., unloading, discharging, tilting;
(art., sm. a.) unloading of a piece; (art.)
unloading of a shell, of a shrapnel;
entrer en , to break bulk.
dechargeoir, m., (art.) sort of shell extractor (canon
a balles).
decharger, v. a., to unload, empty, tilt; to put
down, lay down (a load); to relieve, release,
exonerate, discharge, acquit; (art., sm. a.) to
shoot, fire; to draw a load, to unload; (mil.
min.) to remove the charge from a mine.
decliasser, v. a-., to drive out a nail, bolt, etc.
dechaussement, m., blowing up, undermining
(of foundations); baring (of a foundation);
(art.) to expose, lay bare (a foundation) by
artillery fire.
dechausser, v. a., to lay bare, to bare; to undermine
(as, a foundation); (man.) to take the
foot out of the stirrup; (art.) to undermine,
lay bare, by artillery fire;
tin pilotis, to blow up a pile.
decheance, f., forfeiture of a right,
statute of limitation.
a franchise,
dechemisement, m.,
bullet).
(sm. a.) stripping (of a
dechet, m., waste, loss; wear and tear; (fond.)
waste of metal in casting;
d'abatage, waste or loss in slaughtering
cattle;
de colon, cotton waste, cop;
de distribution, (mil.) the necessary
in making issues;
de feu, (met.) waste in the furnace.
waste
dechevfetrer, v. a., (harn.) to unhalter.
decheviller, v. a., to unpeg, unpin, remove a
pin, etc.
dechiffrement, m., deciphering (of a cryptogram,
etc.).
dechiffrer, v. a., to decipher (a cryptogram, a
cipher dispatch, etc.).
dechiquete, a., (top.) indented (as a coast line).
dechirer, v. a., to rend, tear, break up; to rip
off;
de la toile,
firing.
(mil. slang) to execute platoon
dfichirure, f., rent, tear.
dechouer, v. a., to get a grounded boat afloat.
decigramme, m., decigram, tenth of a gram.
decilitre, m., deciliter, tenth of a liter.
decimation, f., (mil.) decimation.
decimer, v. a., (mil.) to decimate.
decimetre, m., decimeter, tenth of a meter.
decintrement, m., (cons.) removal of the center
of an arch.
decintrer, v. a., to remove, strike, the centering
of an arch.
decislf, a., decisive;
combat , (mil.) decisive attack (generally on
flank).
decision, f.. decision (as of war department, of
the chief of the state, etc.); ( Fr. art., cav.) publication
of details, punishment list, etc. (the
rapport of the infantry), by the c. o. of a regiment
to his officers and to batteries and troops.
declanche, f., (mach.) disengaging gear, tripgear.
deehmcliemeiit, m., (mach., etc.) tripping, tripgear;
release, releasing-gear; operation of tripping,
of releasing, of throwing out of geo,r.
declancher, v. a., (mach., etc.) to trip, release,
throw out of gear, disengage a catch.
declaration, f., declaration, statement;
de guerre, (mil.) declaration of war;
de quittance, (adm.) memorandum or ctat
de solde that the sum mentioned has been
paid to its rightful owner.
de versement au tresor, (adm.) statement
(not a receipt) that a sum due to state by a
conseil d' administration or by a military person
has been paid.
declarer, v. a. r., to declare, certify; to find (guilty
or not guilty); to break out, set in;
la guerre, (mil.) to declare war.
declassement, m., (adm.) passage or transfer
of a person, of an article, from one class to
another; (fort.) abandonment of forts, etc.,
for military purposes;
d'une bouchehfeu, (art.) rejection of a piece
as too defective for regular service, accompanied
by retention for drill, target practice.
declasser, v. a., (adm.) to pass, transfer, a person,
an article, from one class to another; (fort.)
to abandon a fort, a work, for military purposes;
(art.) to put "out of system;"
une bouche & feu, (art.) to reject a piece on
account of minor defects, unfitting at for
regular service, but not for target practice,
etc.
declencher, v. a., to unlatch.
decile, m., trigger; click (of a pile driver); catch,
pawl; (mach.) trip, trip-gear; disengaging
lever; (sm. a.) hair-trigger;
a double detente, (sm. a.) hair-trigger.
de'clinaisoii, f., declination (of the needle); (inst.)
declination of an instrument.
declinatoire, m., (inst.) declinator, orienting
compass; (law) exception to the jurisdiction,
request of defendant to be sent before a different
jurisdiction;
3' incompetence, (law) formal or official statement
of lack of jurisdiction.
decliner, v. a., (inst.) to declinate, set on a given
point or bearing.
declinquer, v. a., to unclinch.
d6cliqueter, v. a., to let fall a pawl.
declisser, v. a., (r. r.) ro remove a fishplate.
declive, a., (top.) sloping.
declivite, f., (top.) slope, declivity.
dedouer, v. a., to draw nails.
decoflrage, m., (mil. min.) unsheathing (act
of).
decoffrer, v. a., (mil. min.) to unsheathe.
decoiflage, m., (art.) uncapping of a fuse, removal
of a fuse cap.
decoiffer, v. a., (art.) to remove the cap from a
fuse.
decoincer, v. a., to unwedge, remove, knock out
decollage, (art., sm. a.) starting of a cartridge
case from its seat, primary extraction.
decollement, m., ungluing, impasting; (carp.)
tenoning; (met. and in gen.) separation of adjacent
parts (e. g., so as to form a crack in a
casting, etc.); (art., sm. a.) primary extraction,
starting of cartridge case, of an obturator, from
its seat.
dccoller, v. a. r., to unglue, unpaste; to behead;
to come apart; (art., sm. a.) to start (a cartridge,
an obturator, from its seat).
decolletage, m., (mach.) screw cutting.
decollete r, v. a., (mach.) to turn, cut, screws;
machine & screw , machine;
tour b, screw lathe.
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decoltnarisation, f., scraping off, removal, of a
layer of coal-tar (as from a gun).
decolthariser, v. a., to scrape off, remove, a layer
of coal-tar (as from a gun).
decombres, f. pi., rubbish, chips.
deconimaiider, v. a., (mil. etc.) to countermand
an order.
decommettre, v. a., (cord.) to unlay a rope.