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Disembogue

Disembogue \Dis`em*bogue"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembogued; p. pr. & vb. n. Disemboguing.] [Sp. desembocar; pref. des- (L. dis-) + embocar to put into the mouth, fr. en (L. in) + boca mouth, fr. L. bucca cheek. Cf. Debouch, Embogue.]

  1. To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into an ocean, a lake, etc.

    Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, And through nine channels disembogues his waves.
    --Addison.

  2. To eject; to cast forth. [R.]
    --Swift.

Disembogue

Disembogue \Dis`em*bogue"\, v. i. To become discharged; to flow out; to find vent; to pour out contents.

Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue.
--Young.

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disembogue

vb. 1 To come out into the open sea from a river etc. 2 (context of a river or waters English) To pour out, to debouch; to flow out through a narrow opening into a larger space.

Usage examples of "disembogue".

Skirting the shores of the bay, where the Mackenzie disembogues into the Arctic Ocean, they entered the mouth of the Little Peel River.

There lie, obscene, at every open door, Heaps from the hearth, and sweepings from the floor, And day by day the mingled masses grow, As sinks are disembogued and kennels flow.

This place he presumed would be somewhere about the Straits of Annian, at which point he supposed the Oregon disembogued itself.

The same Coltham coach stopped at the Lamb Inn, and the same group of idle loungers took an interest in its disemboguing of its contents.

A number of the men, also, under the command of some of the clerks, were sent to quarter themselves on the banks of the Wollamut (the Multnomah of Lewis and Clarke) , a fine river which disembogues itself into the Columbia, about sixty miles above Astoria.