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To remove a prop or props from; to deprive of support.

To loosen the reins of; to remove restraint from. Addison.

To remove from a roll or register, as a name. If I make not this cheat bring out another . . . let me be unrolled and my name put in the book of virtue! Shak.

To divest of scales; to remove scales from. [An eagle] purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance. Milton.

To break or remove the seal of; to open, as what is sealed; as, to unseal a letter. Unable to unseal his lips beyond the width of a quarter of an inch. Sir W. Scott.

To remove from, or as from, a shelf.

To remove or detach, as any part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller.

To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload.

To remove the shroud from; to uncover. P. Fletcher.

To open or remove the shutters of. T. Hughes.

To remove, as a planet, from its sphere or orb. Shak.

To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.

To remove, or take away, from a stack; to remove, as something constituting a stack.

To remove, as a mast, from its step.

To disarm of a sting; to remove the sting of. [R.] "Elegant dissertations on virtue and vice . . . will not unsting calamity." J. M. Mason.

To deprive of a stock; to remove the stock from; to loose from that which fixes, or holds fast.

To remove a tenant from. [R.] Coleridge.

To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone. Milton.

To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.

One who removes a veil.