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DISCOVER.—In AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘discover’ is used in some obsolete meanings. 1. To uncover, make to be seen, as Knox, Hist. p. 250, ‘who rashly discovering himself in the Trenches, was shot in the head.’ So Psa_29:9, ‘The voice of the Lord … discovereth the forests,’ and other passages. 2. To disclose, as Shakespeare, Merry Wives, II. ii. 190, ‘I shall discover a thing to you.’ So Pro_25:9, ‘discover not a secret to another,’ etc. 3. To descry, get sight of, as Act_21:3, ‘When we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand’; Act_27:39 ‘they discovered a certain creek.’