Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-MOVE'
RE-MOVE', n.
- Change of place. – Chapman.
- Translation of one to the place of another. – Shak.
- State of being removed. – Locke.
- Act of moving a man in chess or other game.
- Departure; a going away. Waller.
- The act of changing place; removal. – Bacon.
- A step in any scale of gradation. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.
- Any indefinite distance; as, a small or great remove. – Rogers.
- The act of putting a horse's shoes on different feet. – Swift.
- A dish to be changed while the rest of the course remains. – Johnson.
- Susceptibility of being removed. [Not in use.] – Glanville.
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