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To cut; to separate and remove; to resolve or break up, as by medicines. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memory.

x, is a catalogue of books from which passages marked as against faith or morals must be removed before Catholics can read them. These catalogues are published with additions, from time to time, by the Congregation of the Index, composed of cardinals, theologians, etc., under the sanction of the pope. Hook. -- Index r…

Undoubtedly; unquestionably; in a manner to remove all doubt. Oracles indubitably clear and infallibly certain. Barrow.

y, scrambled in at a high window. Johnson. Curiosity in children nature has provided, to remove that ignorance they were born with; which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull. Locke.

l be the year of the corresponding cycle. The Julian period was proposed by Scaliger, to remove or avoid ambiguities in chronological dates, and was so named because composed of Julian years. -- Julian year, the year of 365 days, 6 hours, adopted in the Julian calendar, and in use until superseded by the Gregorian yea…

nd Osages. They formerly inhabited the region which is now the State of Kansas, but were removed to the Indian Territory.

w. A loud cry or some great knock. Holland. Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

a cam or the like for disconnecting something, as a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed. [Written also crang and kreng.]

and thus discovering whether it has been mixed with water or some of the cream has been removed.

To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.

Liberty granted by which restraint or illegality is removed; permission; allowance; license. David earnestly asked leave of me. 1 Sam. xx. 6. No friend has leave to bear away the dead. Dryden.

d, as a piece of wood, in a recess formed in a surface for the purpose. To let loose, to remove restraint from; to permit to wander at large. -- To let off (a) To discharge; to let fly, as an arrow; to fire the charge of, as a gun. (b) To release, as from an engagement or obligation. [Colloq.] To let out. (a) To allow…

One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.

A thread or wire used to remove tumors, etc.

ose short fibers from yarn or fabrics. Lint doctor (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder.

Dryden. There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance. Locke.

To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve. Canst thou . . . loose the bands of Orion Job. xxxviii. 31. Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me. Matt. xxi. 2.

To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of. Bacon.