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Webster 1913 Edition
Emigration
Emˊi-gra′tion
,Noun.
[L.
emigratio
: cf. F. émigration
.] 1.
The act of emigrating; removal from one country or state to another, for the purpose of residence, as from Europe to America, or, in America, from the Atlantic States to the Western.
2.
A body emigrants; emigrants collectively;
as, the German
. emigration
Webster 1828 Edition
Emigration
EMIGRA'TION
,Noun.
The removal of persons from house to house in the same town, state or kingdom is not called emigration, but simple removal.