Debit

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.

II. Debit ·vt To charge with debt;

— the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.

III. Debit ·noun A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account;

— mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an Account.