Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RE-MOVE, v.i.

1. To change place in any manner.
2. To go from one place to another. – Prior.
3. To change the place of residence; as, to remove from New York to Philadelphia. [Note. The verb remove, in most of its applications, is synonymous with move, but not in all. Thus we do not apply remove to a mere change of posture, without a change of place or the seat of a thing. A man moves his head when he turns it, or his finger when he bends it, but he does not remove it. Remove usually or always denotes a change of place in a body, but we never apply it to a regular continued course or motion. We never say, the wind or water or a ship removes at a certain rate by the hour; but we say, a ship was removed from one place in a harbor to another. Move is a generic term, including the sense of remove, which is more generally applied to a change from one station or permanent position, stand or seat, to another station.]