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Definition of Disgorging
1. disgorge [v] - See also: disgorge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disgorging
Literary usage of Disgorging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Origin, Nature, and Varieties of Wine: Being a Complete by John Louis William Thudichum, August Dupré (1872)
"CLEARING OF THE BOTTLES OF YEAST, OR disgorging. When the fermentation is finished,
and the breakage has nearly ceased, the stacks of bottles are rummaged. ..."
2. Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1868)
"I found a good deal of enjoyment, too, in the busy scene around me; for several
vessels were disgorging themselves (what an unseemly figure is ..."
3. The Debates of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Maryland by Maryland, Wm Blair Lord, Maryland Constitutional Convention, Henry Martin Parkhurst (1864)
"In regard to disgorging, the gentleman said he spent the money at the sanitary
f;iir, because his neighbors were down on him like a thousand of brick. ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"... it attached itself by means of the forward pair to the head of the disgorging
ant. Very often, when the fasting ant had ended its meal and was retiring, ..."
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