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remain(dictionary)

remain(1) (iou)



remain noun. LME.
[Partly from Old French, from remaindre (see REMAIN verb); partly directly from the verb.]
I.
In pl. (occas. treated as sing.) & sing. The remaining parts or part; what remains after other members or parts have gone or been removed, used, or dealt with. LME.
Shakespeare Cymbeline I know your master's pleasure, and he mine; All the remain is, welcome. R. H. Froude The remains of an Ionic temple. J. N. Lockyer Coal is the remains of an ancient vegetation. B. Pym No cake, only the remains of a..stale loaf.
b. = REMAINDER noun 4. M16-L17.
A remaining or surviving thing, a relic; esp. (a) an author's (esp. unpublished) works left after death; (b) relics of antiquity, esp. ancient buildings; (c) (a part or parts of) a person's body after death. Now rare exc. in pl. (passing into sense 1). M16.
removal of remains: see REMOVAL 1c.
W. Golding Year by year life lays down another layer of remains. N. Calder The oldest human remains so far discovered. Times One possible Punic remain, a vase..believed till now to be Roman. L. Spalding They went to the Museum of Indian Remains.
II.
An instance of remaining, a stay. rare. LME-E17.
Shakespeare Macbeth A most miraculous work..Which often since my here-remain in England I have seen him do.