\Em`i*gra"tion\, n. [L. emigratio: cf. F.
['e]migration.]
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.