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Residuum definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RESID'UUM, n. [L.]
1. Residue; that which is left after any process of separation or purification.
2. In law, the part of an estate or of goods and chattels remaining after the payment of debts and legacies.

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural residua) Etymology: Latin Date: 1672 something residual: as a. residue a b. a residual product (as from the distillation of petroleum)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. residua) 1 Chem. a substance left after combustion or evaporation. 2 a remainder or residue. Etymology: L, neut. of residuus remaining f. residere: see RESIDE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Residuum Re*sid"u*um (-?m), n. [L. See Residue.] That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue. ``I think so,'' is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot demagogue. --L. Taylor.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Residue, remainder. 2. Surplus. 3. Rabble, dregs of society, scum of society.