Remain

Definition of Remain

Re`main´ Pronunciation: r?-m?n´

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Remained (-m?nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Remaining.]
	1.	To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. Gather up the fragments that remain. - John vi. 12. Of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. - 1 Cor. xv. 6. That . . . remains to be proved. - Locke.
	2.	To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. Remain a widow at thy father's house. - Gen. xxxviii. 11. Childless thou art; childless remain. - Milton.
v. t.	1.	To await; to be left to. The easier conquest now remains thee. - Milton.
n.	1.	State of remaining; stay. Which often, since my here remain in England, I 've seen him do. - Shak.
	2.	That which is left; relic; remainder; - chiefly in the plural. When this remain of horror has entirely subsided. - Burke.
	3.	That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. Old warriors whose adored remains In weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains! - Pope.
	4.	The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's

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