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Remove | Remove \Re*move"\, n. 1. The act of removing; a removal. [1913 Webster] This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship. --Milton. [1913 Webster] And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] 2. The transfer of one's business, or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move. [1913 Webster] It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire. --J. H. Newman. [1913 Webster] 3. The state of being removed. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else. [1913 Webster] 5. The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year. [1913 Webster] A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 6. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. --Swift. [1913 Webster] |
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