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To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.

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  1. v. i. To remove from one country or State to another, for the purpose of residence; to migrate from home.
  2. a. Migratory; roving.
  3. v. leave one's country of residence for a new one
  4. 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. Migratory; roving. [Obs.]
  5. To remove from one country or State to another, for the purposeof 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 timeof the Goths. J. H. Newman.
  6. v:100 v. leave one's country of residence for a new one