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To disarm; to divest of armor. Holinshed.

Divested or deprived of the helm or helmet.

Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden.

To divest of the office or authority of a magistrate. [Obs.] Milton.

To divest of a mantle; to uncover. Nay, she said, but I will unmantle you. Sir W. Scott.

To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. [Obs.] A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them [the elements]. Sir P. Sidney.

To cause to cease to be pagan; to divest of pagan character. [R.] Cudworth.

To divest of the character, office, or authority of a pope.

To deprive of the character or authority of a prince; to divest of principality of sovereignty. [R.] Swift.

To divest of the rank or authority of queen. 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.

Want of skill; ignorance; unskillfulness. [Obs.] Sylvester.

To divest of solemnity.

To divest of the title or privilege of an esquire. Swift.

A divesting of substantiality.

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

To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar. Lamb.

To tame; to subdue. [Obs. & R.] Sylvester.

To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain. [R.] Fuller.

ent. -- Resulting use (Law), a use, which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and results or returns to him who raised it, after such expiration. -- Secondary, or Shifting, use, a use which, though executed, may change from one to another by circumstances. Blackstone. -- Statute of uses (Eng. Law),…