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▪ I. remover1|rɪˈmuːvə(r)|
[f. remove v. + -er1.]
1. One who, or that which, removes or takes away; spec. in modern use, a furniture-remover.
1594Southwell M. Magd. Funeral Teares 56 b, Where the thing remooued was remoouer of it selfe. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 367 If the desirer of our saluation, and the remoouer of all hinderances to it, do yet leaue sinne behind. 1624T. Scott Vox Regis 23 Which Court was the onely..discouerer and remoouer of all such mightie enormities. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 108 We must see them..engaged as the scavengers of the forest-wilds of the tropics; the removers of fallen trees. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. 264 Grey had discovered a benevolent remover of furniture.
†b. fig. A poison. Obs. rare—1.
1625–6Shirley Maid's Revenge iii. ii, Shar. A rat! give him his bane... Ans. Pray let me see a remover at twelve hours; I would be loth to kill the poor thing presently.
2. One who changes his place; a restless or stirring person. rare.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. cxvi, Loue is not loue Which alters when it alteration findes, Or bends with the remouer to remoue. 1607–12Bacon Ess., Fortune (Arb.) 378 An hastye Fortune maketh an Enterpriser, and Remover (The French hath it better Entreprenant, or Remuant).
†b. A hive from which the bees are made to remove. Obs. nonce-use.
1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 153 Having first placed these two stalls, the Remover (that is driven) and the Receiver, as near as may be to one another.
▪ II. † reˈmover2 Obs. rare.
[f. as prec. + -er4.]
1. The act of moving; movement. rare—1.
1663H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xxv. 95 At the first sight of him, he would have turned back out of the remover of conscience, and true repentance.
2. Law. (See quot. and remove v. 2 b.)
1744Jacob Law Dict., Remover is where a Suit or Cause is removed out of one Court into another. |