\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.
Note: 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.
Note: 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.
3. The state of being removed. --Locke.
4. That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to
   make room for something else.
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.
         A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
                                               --Addison.
6. (Far.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe. --Swift.