move periodically or seasonally; " birds migrate in the Winter"; " The worker migrate to where the crops need harvesting"

move from one country or region to another and settle there; " Many Germans migrated to South America in the mid- 19th century"; " This tribe transmigrated many times over the centuries"

To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.

To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; - said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.

To move from one country to another for permanent residence; to go regularly from one climate or region to another at certain times of year, as many birds.

To wander, to pass from one part to another in an organ or in the body, said of certain diseases or symptoms.

To remove for residence from one country to another.

Migration.

To remove to another place or country.

To remove from one country to another.

To remove from one country to another, with a view to residence in it.

To remove from one country to settle or reside in another.

Large flocks of them annually migrate to England from Northern Europe. – A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

During July and August glow- worms seem to migrate to warmer quarters in sheltered banks and holes, nor is their light visible to the eye after June is out, save on very warm evenings, and then only in a lesser degree. – A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs

I do not at all desire to migrate out of my own class, and I have never been able to sympathise with people who did. – At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson

Did not my own consciousness migrate or seem, at least, to transfer itself into this brilliant life history, as I traced its glowing record? – A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

They have no regular places of worship on the prairies, and the inhabitants are therefore subject to the incursions of itinerant preachers, who migrate annually, in swarms, from the more thickly settled districts. – A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by S. A. Ferrall

It almost appeared as if many of the plants of the Taimur country had attempted to migrate hence farther to the north, but meeting the sea, had stood still, unable to go farther and unwilling to turn. – The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by A.E. Nordenskieold

Whether " the black class" would, or would not migrate I am much more pleased to have you say what you do on this point, though it be at the expense of your consistency, than to have you say, as you do in another part of your speech, that abolition " would end in the extermination or subjugation of the one race or the other." – The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus by American Anti-Slavery Society

They heard how, in the hospitals under the hedges, things were in a bad way- how one patient was down with a broken wing, with no hope of getting well in time to migrate and of others incurable, and resigned. – The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy by Mabel Henriette Spielmann

We had always intended to go down to Srinagar about the 15th, but, finding that the Residency party meant to move on that day, we arranged to migrate a day earlier in order to avoid the pony and coolie famine which a Residential progress entails on the ordinary traveller. – A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

They go- migrate and for the same reason, in an equal term of time, they are liable to be forced to migrate again. – Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

Rats and squirrels often migrate in great numbers. – The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon

We must do our best to persuade them to migrate to Kapaa'a. – White Fire by John Oxenham

They migrate for a variety of reasons. – The Human Side of Animals by Royal Dixon

The hens do not here migrate in winter, but a whole flight of them has been seen in the autumn on the Winchester road, evidently on their way; and once, after an early severe frost, about a hundred were found dead in a haystack near Basingstoke. – John Keble's Parishes by Charlotte M Yonge

I went in at once, purchased it, and took it home in triumph; it would be noiseless, and would reduce the local average of cats without scandal,- one or two examples,- and feline fashion would soon migrate to a more secluded spot. – Stories By English Authors: London by Various

No doubt it is even then unintelligible how the perception of a present thing should make me know it as it is in itself, since its qualities cannot migrate over into my faculty of representation; but, even granting this possibility, such a perception would not occur a priori, i. – Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Harold Arthur Prichard

Migrate To remove from one place to another; to change residence. – The American Woman's Home by Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

From whence, then, do our ring- ousels migrate so regularly every September, and make their appearance again, as if in their return, every April? – The-Natural-History-of-Selborne by White, Gilbert

They've taken her up, and they ask her everywhere; but they couldn't tell you why they do it, any more than birds could tell you why they migrate – The Inner Shrine by Basil King

If we really believe that we migrate out of life into an atmosphere of mild piety, and lose all our individuality at once, then, of course, the less said the better. – Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson