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ocess of freeing from water; also, the condition of a body from which the water has been removed.

Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: .

To strip or remove the wood from; as, to delignate ramie, in the preparation of ribbons of the fiber for further working.

ble of being dismounted; -- said of a form of rim, for an automobile wheel, which can be removed with its tire from the wheel.

To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals. Arbuthnot.

(Med.) A medicine which removes obstructions; an aperient.

Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.

That which removes oxygen; hence, a reducing agent; as, nascent hydrogen is a deoxidizer.

To remove the polish or glaze from.

To remove from a throne or other high station; to dethrone; to divest or deprive of office. A tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed. Prynne.

The act of deprecating; a praying against evil; prayer that an evil may be removed or prevented; strong expression of disapprobation. Humble deprecation. Milton.

Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic. Humble and deprecatory letters. Bacon.

To remove the queen from (a hive of bees).

A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation. No man living is a thousand descents removed from Adam himself. Hooker.

To deprive, or free from, silver; to remove silver from.

To remove darkness from. [Obs.] Ash.

To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.

To evict; to remove. [Obs.] Foxe.

f turkey. W. Irving. deviled egg a hard-boiled egg, sliced into halves and with the yolk removed and replaced with a paste, usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and/or spices such as paprika.

To empty out; to remove.