The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask conferred by the
enormity of their remotion.
De Quincey.
Re*mould" (r?-m?ld"), v. t. See Remold.
Re*mount" (r?-mount"), v. t. & i. To mount again.
Re*mount", n. The opportunity of, or things necessary for, remounting;
specifically, a fresh horse, with his equipments; as, to give one a
remount.
Re*mov"a*ble (r?-m??v"?-b'l), a. Admitting of being removed. Ayliffe.
-- Re*mov`a*bil"i*ty (-&?;-b&?;l"&?;-t&?;), n.
Re*mov"al (-al), n. The act of removing, or the state of being removed.
Re*move" (r?-m??v"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Removed (-m??vd"); 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.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark.
Deut. xix. 14.
When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally
ordered the table to be removed.
Goldsmith.
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.
3. To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many
postmasters.
See the Note under Remove, v. i.
Re*move" (r?-m??v"), 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.
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I can not taint with fear.
Shak.
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.
Re*move", n. 1. The act of removing; a removal.
This place should be at once both school and university, not
needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
Milton.
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Goldsmith.
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.
It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
J. H. Newman.