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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Debouched

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Debouching

[F.

déboucher

; pref.

dé-

(L.

dis-

) +

boucher

to stop up, fr.

bouche

mouth, fr. L.

bucca

the cheek. Cf.

To march out from a wood, defile, or other confined spot, into open ground; to issue.

Battalions

debouching

on the plain.

Prescott.

Verb.

To issue or march out of a narrow place, or from defiles, as troops.

DEBRIS, n. debree'. Fragments; rubbish; ruins; applied particularly to the fragments of rocks.

DEBT, n. det. [L. debitum, contracted.]