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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REMA'INDER, n.
1. Any thing left after the separation and removal of a part.
If these decoctions be repeated till the water comes off clear, the remainder yields no salt.
The last remainders of unhappy Troy.
2. Relics; remains; the corpse of a human being. [Not now used.]
3. That which is left after a part is past; as the remainder of the day or week; the remainder of the year; the remainder of life.
4. The sum that is left after subtraction or after any deduction.
5. In law, an estate limited to take effect and be enjoyed after another estate is determined. A grants land to B for twenty years; remainder to D in fee. If a man by deed or will limits his books or furniture to A for life, with remainder to B, this remainder is good.
A writ of formedon in remainder, is a writ which lies where a man gives lands to another for life or in tail, with remainder to a third person in tail or in fee, and he who has the particular estate dies without issue heritable, and a stranger intrudes upon him in remainder and keeps him out of possession; in this case, the remainder-man shall have his writ of formedon in the remainder.
REMA'INDER, a. Remaining; refuse; left; as the remainder biscuit; the remainder viands. Obs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance" [syn: remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest]
2: the part of the dividend that is left over when the dividend is not evenly divisible by the divisor
3: the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend [syn: remainder, difference]
4: a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold [syn: end, remainder, remnant, oddment] v
1: sell cheaply as remainders; "The publisher remaindered the books"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from remaindre, verb Date: 14th century 1. an interest or estate in property that follows and is dependent on the termination of a prior intervening possessory estate created at the same time by the same instrument 2. a. a remaining group, part, or trace b. (1) the number left after a subtraction (2) the final undivided part after division that is less or of lower degree than the divisor 3. a book sold at a reduced price by the publisher after sales have slowed II. adjective Date: 1567 leftover, remaining III. transitive verb (-dered; remaindering) Date: 1904 to dispose of as remainders

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a part remaining or left over. 2 remaining persons or things. 3 a number left after division or subtraction. 4 the copies of a book left unsold when demand has fallen. 5 Law an interest in an estate that becomes effective in possession only when a prior interest (devised at the same time) ends. --v.tr. dispose of (a remainder of books) at a reduced price. Etymology: ME (in sense 5) f. AF, = OF remaindre: see REMAIN

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Remainder Re*main"der, a. Remaining; left; left over; refuse. Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit After a voyage. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Remainder Re*main"der (r?-m?n"d?r), n. [OF. remaindre, inf. See Remain.] 1. Anything that remains, or is left, after the separation and removal of a part; residue; remnant. ``The last remainders of unhappy Troy.'' --Dryden. If these decoctions be repeated till the water comes off clear, the remainder yields no salt. --Arbuthnot. 2. (Math.) The quantity or sum that is left after subtraction, or after any deduction. 3. (Law) An estate in expectancy, generally in land, which becomes an estate in possession upon the determination of a particular prior estate, created at the same time, and by the same instrument; for example, if land be conveyed to A for life, and on his death to B, A's life interest is a particuar estate, and B's interest is a remainder, or estate in remainder. Syn: Balance; rest; residue; remnant; leavings.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

The remainder of a group are the things or people that still remain after the other things or people have gone or have been dealt with. He gulped down the remainder of his coffee... = rest QUANT: QUANT of def-n • Remainder is also a pronoun. Only 5.9 per cent of the area is now covered in trees. Most of the remainder is farmland... PRON

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

re-man'-der (yathar, "to be left," she'erith, "remnant"): In 2Sa 14:7 "residue" would have been clearer (compare Ps 76:10), but the changes of the Revised Version (British and American) in Le 6:16; 7:16,17 are pointless (contrast Ex 29:34).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Remnant, residue, rest, remains, leavings, relics, surplus.

Moby Thesaurus

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