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▪ I. disembogue, v.|dɪsɪmˈbəʊg|
Forms: 6 desemboque, 6–7 disem-, -imboque, 7 disem-, disim-, -boke, -boake, -boge, dissemboque, 7–8 disimbogue, dissembogue, 6– disembogue.
[In 6 disemboque, ad. Sp. desemboc-ar ‘to come out of the mouth of a river or hauen’ (Minsheu 1599): f. des-, dis- 4 + embocar ‘to runne as the sea into a creeke or narrow riuer’ (ibid.); f. en in + boca mouth: cf. F. emboucher, and see embogue.]
†1. intr. To come out of the mouth of a river, strait, etc. into the open sea. Obs.
1595T. Maynarde Drake's Voy. (Hakl. Soc.) 20 Sir Thomas Baskervile..talked with such as hee hearde intended to quite companie before they were disembogued. 1596Raleigh Discov. Gviana 18 He was inforced to desembogue at the mouth of the said Amazones. 1613Voy. Guiana in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 203 We disembogued through the broken islands on the north side of Anguilla. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. viii. (1821) 318 Neither could they disimboge from thence without an Easterly winde.
†b. trans. with the strait, etc. as object. Obs.
1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 117 Another channell, by which a man may disemboake the straite. Ibid. 128 We set sayle once againe, in hope to disemboke the straite; but..before we came to the mouth of it, the wind changed.
2. intr. Of a river, lake, etc.: To flow out at the mouth; to discharge or empty itself; to flow into.
1598Hakluyt Voy. I. 104 The riuer of Volga..issueth from the North part of Bulgaria..and..disimboqueth into a certain lake. 1661Evelyn Fumifugium Misc. Writ. (1805) ii. 233 As far as any fresh waters are found disemboguing into the Thames. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. xiv. 75 The Danube disembogues into the Euxine by seven mouths. 1871Browning Hervé Riel vi, 'Twixt the offing here and Grève where the river disembogues.
3. fig. and transf. To come forth as from a river's mouth, to emerge; to discharge itself as a river.
1619Fletcher M. Thomas iii. i, Those damn'd souls must disembogue again. 1670Moral State Eng. 134 With that one of the Company disembogueth. 1823De Quincey Lett. Educ. iii. (1860) 49 The presses of Europe are still disemboguing into the ocean of literature. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 222 Hungry as wolves, swift and sudden as a torrent from the mountains, they disembogued.
4. trans. Of a river, lake, etc.: To discharge or pour forth (its waters) at the mouth; refl. to discharge or empty itself.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. ii. 10 [The Tweed] passeth under Berwick..and so disembogeth it selfe into the Sea. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 64 The immense quantities of water that are disembogued into the Sea by all the Rivers. 1715–20Pope Iliad xvii. 311 Where some swoln river dissembogues his waves. 1829Southey Inscriptions xlv, Where wild Parana disembogues A sea-like stream. 1840De Quincey Essenes Wks. X. 272 A great river..disemboguing itself into main ocean.
b. fig. and transf. To discharge, pour forth; to empty by pouring forth the contents.
a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 13 She was..of a most Noble and Royall extract by Her Father..for on that side there was disimbogued into her veines..the very abstract of all the greatest houses in Christendome. 1687Dryden Hind & P. ii. 562 Whom, when their home-bred honesty is lost, We disembogue on some far Indian coast. 1765Falconer Demagogue 401 Methinks I hear the bellowing demagogue Dumb-sounding declamations disembogue. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. ii, Paris disembogues itself..to witness, with grim looks, the Séance Royale.
absol.1742Young Nt. Th. iii. 220 Volcano's bellow ere they disembogue.
†c. To dislodge by force, to drive out. Obs.
1625Fletcher & Shirley Nt. Walker v, If I get in adoors, not the power o' th' countrey..shall disembogue me. 1632Massinger Maid of Hon. ii. ii, Conduct me to The lady of the mansion, or my poniard Shall disembogue thy soul. Syl. O terrible! disembogue!
Hence disemˈbogued ppl. a., furnished with ready outlet.
1669Address hopeful Yng. Gentry Eng. 91 Wit..needs [not] to call a Deity down upon the stage, to make its way open and disembogued.
▪ II. † disemˈbogue, n. Obs.
[f. the vb.]
The place where a river disembogues; the mouth.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 18 [Tearmes for the Sea] Disimboage, a gulph, the froth of the sea. 1689G. Harvey Curing Dis. by Expect. xii. 79 Hammersmith-water..being too near the disimbogue of the Thames. |