Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-EM-BOGUE'
DIS-EM-BOGUE', v.t. [disembog'; dis and the root of Fr. bouche, mouth. The French has emboucher and debouquer. Sp. boca, mouth, Port. id., It. bocca. See Voice.]
To pour out or discharge at the mouth, as a stream; to vent; to discharge into the ocean or a lake. Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves, / And through nine channels disembogues his waves. – Addison.
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