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▪ I. † reˈmainer1 Obs.
Also 5 remaner, 5–6 remayner, 7 remainor.
[a. ONF. remaneir, = OF. remanoir inf.: see remain v. and -er4.]
1. Law.
a. ? = remanet 2 a. rare—1.
1454Paston Lett. I. 294 Mastere Pownyngs hath day tille the next terme by a remayner.
b. = remainder n.1 1.
1473Rolls of Parlt. VI. 75/2 Nor to oure seid moost derest Wife, nor to her heires or assignes, in, to, or for the remaner..of the premisses. 1520Sir R. Elyot Will in Elyot's Gov. (1883) App. A, Notwithstanding the said entailles and remayners afore declared.
2. = remainder n. 4 a.
1542Recorde Gr. Artes (1575) 96 The Remayner is a sum left after a due Subtraction made. 1588J. Mellis Arith. S iij b, I haue herein alwaies driuen my remayners (or broken partes) into whole numbers. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vi. iii. 106 The Sun enters Gemini May 11; which Substract from 12, the Remainer is 1.
3. = remainder n.1 2 b.
1617MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., The remainor [of the money is] in the boxe. a1625Fletcher, etc. Fair Maid Inn iii. ii, The lesse remainer Is dowry large enough. 1644Nye Gunnery ii. (1647) 23 From which stick cut off its just length, the remainer you may use upon the base ring.
▪ II. reˈmainer2 rare.
[f. remain v. + -er1.]
One who remains or stays.
1565T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 16, I wil be a remainer in thy tabernacle for euer. 1637in Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 79 Ane daylie remainer fra the Kirk in tyme of dyvyne worschip. 1922Joyce Ulysses 688 How did the centripetal remainer afford egress to the centrifugal departer? |