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The act of migrating.

Migration together. [R.] Woodward.

Emigration. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A body emigrants; emigrants collectively; as, the German emigration.

Relating to emigration.

An advocate or promoter of emigration.

ating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. The immigrations of the Arabians into Europe. T. Warton.

Reciprocal migration; interchange of dwelling place by migration. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Migration back to the place from which one came. Sir M. Hale.

The act of passing from one country to another; migration.

nce (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvâna) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.

Any of several acts forbidding the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States, originally from 1882 to 1892 by act of May 6, 1882, then from 1892 to 1902 by act May 5, 1892. By act of April 29, 1902, all existing legislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular poss…

or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.

It is remarkable for having a pouch on each side of the jaw, under the skin, and for its migrations.

to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded. Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration. The Century.

ody it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls. Sir T. Browne.

In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.

of birds "Birds of passage." Longfellow. -- Passage hawk, a hawk taken on its passage or migration. -- Passage money, money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water.

d pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations.

The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al (#), a. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phe*nol"o*gist (#), n.