A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England
and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Golds...
