Definition for RE-MOVE'

RE-MOVE', n.

  1. Change of place. – Chapman.
  2. Translation of one to the place of another. – Shak.
  3. State of being removed. – Locke.
  4. Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
  5. Departure; a going away. Waller.
  6. The act of changing place; removal. – Bacon.
  7. A step in any scale of gradation. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.
  8. Any indefinite distance; as, a small or great remove. – Rogers.
  9. The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet. – Swift.
  10. A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains. – Johnson.
  11. Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.] – Glanville.

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