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One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse. Gay.

A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent. -- n.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position. Paley.

To remove afar off; to withdraw. [Obs.] From worldly cares he did himself eloign. Spenser.

To remove. [Obs.] Howell.

To remove further off. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home. Forced to emigrate in a body to America. Macaulay. They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths. J. H. Newman.

amage to the mind or the body, or to both, ensues, unless the exciting cause be presently removed. I. Taylor.

To remove without cutting (as a tumor).

Counterpoise. The equipoise to the clergy being removed. Buckle.

To remove; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign. [Obs.] From worldly cares he did himself esloin. Spenser.

To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

." Bacon. Unarmed they might Have easily, as spirits evaded swift By quick contraction or remove. Milton.

To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] "The cause was evoked to Rome." Hume.

To remove the kernel form.

To dig out and remove, as earth. The material excavated was usually sand. E. L. Corthell. Excavating pump, a kind of dredging apparatus for excavating under water, in which silt and loose material mixed with water are drawn up by a pump. Knight.

To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.

To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.