v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Removed p. pr. & vb. n. Removing. ] [ OF. removoir, remouvoir, L. removere, remotum; pref. re- re- + movere to move. See Move. ] 1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered the table to be removed. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease. “King Richard thus removed.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ See the Note under Remove, v. i. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To change place in any manner, or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position, or place to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I can not taint with fear. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The verb remove, in some of its application, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

a. 1. Changed in place. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Dismissed from office. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Distant in location; remote. “Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Re*mov"ed*ness n. Shak. [1913 Webster]

n. One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]