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A ,

(1962) E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xlvi. 352 "The hi-fi set and typewriter have already been stolen and only a worthless AM set remains. "

abackstays , [adv.]

(1694) Lond. Gaz. mmdcccclxxviii. 1 "Captain Teissere remained a back stays several hours."

A band .

(1966) C. R. &. T. S. Leeson Histol. ix. 163/1 "During contraction the A band remains constant in length but the H band and I band diminish. "

abate , [v. 1]

(1551) Recorde Pathway to Knowl. ii. Introd., "And if you abate euen portions from things that are equal, those partes that remain shall be equall also. "

abbey .

(1882) Daily News 27 April 4/7 "In the presence of a large and representative gathering the remains of the late Mr. Darwin were yesterday interred in Westminster Abbey."

Abdim .

(1930) G. L. Bates Handbk. Birds W. Afr. 109 "One year, in February, a large company of Abdims remained on my land for days. "

aberrance .

(1865) W. M. Rossetti Fine Art (1867) 276 "The two remaining contributions..are Japanese subjects, unsurpassed in delicate aberrances and intricate hap&dubh.hazards of colour. "

abeyance .

(1878) Tait &. Stewart Unseen Univ. vii. §.204. 203 "That the soul may remain veiled or in abeyance until the resurrection."

abigail .

(1864) Duke of Manchester Court &. Soc. Eliz. to Anne I. 81 "Her house remained full of dons and pages, ladies and abigails."

abort , [v.]

(1963) Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 118 "A specified point on the runway..used as a decision point for aborting. If trouble develops on the take-off roll before go-no-go, it is possible to abort and stop the aircraft on the remaining runway."

(1969) Daily Tel. 28 Apr. 14 "National Health surgeons on the whole remain disinclined to abort frivolously. "

above , [adv.] and [prep.]

(1793) Smeaton Edystone Lightho. §.253 "The weather..above-head had remained..much the same. "

absorb , [v.]

(C. 1860) Faraday Forces of Nat. iii. 78 "Whenever a solid body loses some of that force of attraction by means of which it remains solid, heat is absorbed. "

abstergify [v.]

(1612) Benvenuto Passenger's Dialogues, Ital. &. Eng. (Nares) "Specially, when wee would abstergifie, and that the huske remaine behind in the boyling of it."

abstract , [v.]

(? 1685) Boyle (J.) "Having dephlegmed spirit of salt, and gently abstracted the whole spirit, there remaineth in the retort a styptical substance. "

abstracted , [ppl. a.]

(1667) Milton P.L. ix. 463 "The Evil one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good. "

absurd , [a.] and [sb.]

(1962) Listener 13 Dec. 1027/1 "The theatre of the absurd, whose master remains Camus."

Acadian , [sb.] and [a.]

(1757) Mem. Principal Trans. Last War 12 "The French inhabitants (whom for Distinction-sake I shall call Acadians)..were by the treaty allowed their option either to retire..or to remain there. "

(1868) J. W. Dawson in Proc. Amer. Assoc. Advancement Sci. XVI. 118 "These rocks..having been ascertained to be Devonian, there still remained an immense thickness of underlying rocks of uncertain age... It is proposed to call this series, represented in New Brunswick by the St. John slates, the Acadian Series. "

accepting , [vbl. sb.]

(1962) Times 13 Sept. 11/5 "Rothschilds have remained..the only accepting house in the City to have avoided turning itself into a legal company."

accident , [sb.]

(1610) Gwillim Heraldry (1660) i. iii. 15 "I call those notes or marks, Accidents of Armes, that..may be annexed unto them, or taken from them, their substance still remaining."

accidentally , [adv.]

(1781) Gibbon Decl. &. Fall. III. 139 "The invasion of the Goths..contributed, at least accidentally, to extirpate the last remains of Paganism."

accomplish , [v.]

(1855) Prescott Philip II, I. ii. i. 154 "The work of the reformer was never accomplished so long as anything remained to reform."

accord , [v.]

(1817) Scott Waverley II. xix. 293 "Proceed as we accorded before dinner, if you wish to remain longer in my service."

account , [sb.]

(1711) Addison Spect. No. 25. &page.2 "As for the remaining Parts of the Pound, I keep no accompt of them. "

(1593) Shaks. Rich. II, i. i. 130 "My Soueraigne Liege was in my debt, Vpon remainder of a deere Accompt. "

(1652) Brome Joviall Crew i. 358 "The ballance of the several Accompts, Which shews you what remains in Cash. "

(1873) Aldrich Marj. Daw 150 "The hotel remains to-day pretty much the same as when Jonathan Bayley handed in his accounts in 1840."

accountant , [a.] and [sb.]

(1649) Selden Laws Eng. i. lxvii. 176 (1739) "The Guardian in Socage remaineth accomptant to the Heir, for all profits both of Land and Marriage."

accretion .

(1774) Bryant Mythol. I. 164 "This accretion will be in every age enlarged; till there will at last remain some few outlines only of the original occurrence. "

accurate , [a.]

(1738) Lond. &. Country Brewer iii. (1743) 242 "Such Drink always remains so, notwithstanding their most accurate Attempts to the contrary."

acervulus .

(1947) C. E. Skinner et al. Henrici's Molds, Yeasts, &. Actinomycetes (ed. 2) v. 96 "The third order, the Moniliales.., contains the remaining forms, whose conidiophores are produced neither in pycnidia nor upon acervuli, but are formed from superficial hyphae over the entire surface of the fungus colony. "

acoustic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1855) Owen Skel. &. Teeth 34 "The acoustic capsule remains in great part cartilaginous. "

acoustician .

(1879) A. J. Hipkins in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 54 "It is..agreed, even by acousticians, that the piano had best remain with thirteen keys in the octave. "

actio in distans .

(1846) W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. 852/1 "Repulsion..remains, as apparently an actio in distans,..inconceivable as a possibility [for inclusion among the primary qualities of body]. "

acyclovir .

(1981) Maclean's Mag. 2 Nov. 24 "The beauty of acyclovir is that it remains inactive in the body until it comes in contact with a herpes-induced enzyme. The enzyme then activates the drug. "

addible , [a.]

(1690) Locke Hum. Underst. ii. xvii. (1727) I. 88 "The clearest idea it can get of infinity, is the confused, incomprehensible remainder of endless, addible numbers, which affords no prospect of stop or boundary."

address , [v.]

(1620) Shelton Don Quixote I. iii. i. 116 "He arose, remaining bended in the midst of the way, like unto a Turkish Bow, without being able to address himself."

adenoid , [a.] and [sb. pl.]

(1873) Klein Handb. Physiol. Lab. iii. 45 "It remains to describe the so-called adenoid tissue. By this term is understood, a dense reticulum of branched cells, the processes of which are short but of great delicacy. "

adiaphoron , [a.] and [sb.]

(1553-87) Foxe A. &. M. (1596) 51/1 "The celebration of Easterdaie remained adiaphoron, as a thing indifferent in the church. "

Adivasi , [sb.] (and [a.] )

(1941) A. V. Thakkar Probl. Aborigines in India 2 "We can ill afford to allow such a huge population as that of the Adivasis to remain any longer illiterate, ignorant and labouring under..abject poverty. "

admotive , [a.]

(1879) Syd. Soc. Lex. "Admotive germination: That in which the episperm containing the end of the cotyledon more or less tumefied remains fixed laterally near the base of the cotyledon."

adnexa , [sb. pl.]

(1906) Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Jan. 12/1 "In lepra anaesthetica the eyes may remain unaffected if the nerves supplying the adnexa of the eye remain free. "

adobe .

(1821) Dewees Lett. from Texas (1852) 21 "The remainder of the buildings are adobes. "

adored , [ppl. a.]

(1713) Pope Winds. For. 301 "Old warriors whose ador'd remains In weeping vaults her hallow'd earth contains. "

adry , [adv.] and [pred.] [a.]

(1628) Digby Voy. to Medit. 94 "Att the ebbe shee [the ship] remained all adry. "

adsorb , [v.]

(1906) Bio-chem. Jrnl. I. 494 "In all my experiments with charcoal some trypsin has remained merely adsorbed, and therefore transferable to added casein and active. "

adulterate , [v.]

(1678) Marvell Growth of Pop. Wks. 1875 IV. 257 "That..the clergy should, by remaining unmarried, either frustrate human nature if they live chastly, or, if otherwise, adulterate it."

adumbration .

(1610) Guillim Heraldrie ii. iii. 42 "Adumbration, or Transparency, is a cleere exemption of the substance of the Charge, or thing borne, in such sort as that there remaineth nothing thereof to be discerned, but the naked and bare proportion of the outward lineaments thereof."

adust , [ppl. a.]

(1657) Physical Dict. "The blood is then said to be adust, when by reason of extraordinary heat the thinner parts are evaporated, and the thicker remain black and dreggy. "

Advent .

(1582) N. T. (Rheims) 1 Thess. iv. 15 "Vve vvhich liue, vvhich are remaining in the aduent [other versions coming] of our Lord. "

advisership .

(1868) Pall Mall G. 2 Dec. 8 "The Law Advisership to the Castle is the most important of the remaining appointments."

Aegean , [a.]

(1902) Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 55/2 "In certain localities, for instance, Cyprus, Crete, and most of the Aegean islands,..Mycenaean remains..form in fact a stratum to be expected on the site of almost every ancient Aegean settlement. "

Aepyornis .

(1959) Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 779/2 "There are also fossil remains of large, extinct, bird-like animals not found elsewhere, such as the Aepyronis, remnants of whose eggs are strewn over the beaches of the extreme south."

aerobically [adv.]

(1887) A. M. Brown Anim. Alkaloids 117 "Four-fifths of our tissues live aerobically; and..the remaining fifth part..lives anaerobically, that is, after the fashion of putrid ferment. "

aeroplane , [sb.]

(1907) Daily Mail 19 Feb. 7/7 "M. Santos Dumont..felt that for some years to come aeroplaning would remain a sport. "

Aertex .

(1984) Guardian Weekly 19 Aug. 20 "Until about 1943 my favourite garment remained a bright scarlet Aertex shirt, for reasons unconnected with revolutionary socialism."

affection , [sb.]

(1625) Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 225 "There remaineth yet one generall and common affection scattered throughout the whole Law..which we call an Action. "

affidavit .

(1808) Bentham Scotch Ref. 23 "The affidavit-maker (deponent) remaining subject to examination."

affluent , [a.] and [sb.]

(1853) Phillips Rivers of Yorksh. iii. 104 "The only remaining affluent of importance on its northern banks, viz. the river Hull. "

afforestation .

(1751) Chambers Cycl. s.v. Purlieu, "The greatest part of the new afforestations were still remaining. "

afforested , [ppl. a.]

(1679) Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1840) 154 "[They] had much land remaining in their own hands, afforrested for their recreation. "

Afghanistanism .

(1961) H. B. Jackson Mass Communications Dict. 6 "Afghanistanism, a criticism leveled against newspaper editors for avoiding community causes and issues and for advocating causes and issues far enough away to remain unchallenged by unoriented readers. "

after-

(1914) J. Collings Colon. Rur. Brit. I. vi. 113 "The remainder of the children whose after-school career was traced went into industrial or commercial occupations. "

(1680) W. Allen Peace &. Unity 64 "While they remain under this perswasion, they can no more lawfully receive an *after-baptizing. "

(1860) Mining Gloss. (ed. 2) 48 "*After-damp, destructive gas (carbonic acid) remaining in the workings after an explosion of fire-damp. "

(1909) Cent. Dict. Suppl., "*After-sound, a subjective sensation of sound which remains after the sound itself has ceased. "

after-game .

(1713) Addison Cato iii. vii, "Still there remains an after-game to play. "

againstness

(1951) Paterson &. Willett in Sociological Rev. XLIII. 90 "There remains a feeling that the group is an entity, for the members have all been affected similarly by the same outside power, and there is a diffused `againstness'. "

agammaglobulinaemia .

(1954) Lancet 2 Oct. 671/2 "Agammaglobulin&ae.mia. A syndrome has recently been described in America in which recurrent severe infections are associated with a virtual absence of &gamma.-globulin from the serum, the levels of the other plasma-protein fractions remaining within normal limits. "

agar-agar .

(1886) Crookshank Bacteriology 65 "Agar-agar has the advantage of remaining solid up to a temperature of about 45°.. "

age , [sb.]

(1889) W. S. Gilbert Gondoliers ii. 32 "As at home we've been remaining-We've not seen you both for ages. "

(1954) J. G. Peristiany in Instit. Prim. Soc. iv. 40 "The initiation rituals..provide him with an age-set; that is, with a group of age-mates who remain his social co-evals through life. "

ageing aging , [vbl. sb.]

(1879) G. Gladstone in Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 198 "The hot flue leads into the ageing-room, where the cloth remains suspended. "

agend

(1860) Maury Phys. Geog. Sea i. §.67 "Notwithstanding all that has been done.. there still remain many agenda."

aggrieved , [ppl. a.]

(1870) Bowen Logic ix. 293 "The Catholics had a right to feel aggrieved that these laws should be permitted to remain in the statute book."

aglare , [adv.] , prop. [phr.]

(1872) M. Collins Pr. Clarice II. xix. 223 "His sole remaining eye aglare with furious light. "

agonizing , [ppl. a.]

(1953) J. F. Dulles in N.Y. Times 15 Dec. 14/3 "If..the European Defence Community should not be effective; if France and Germany remain apart... That would compel an agonizing reappraisal of basic United States policy. "

agro- ,

(1983) Engin. News-Rec. 21 Apr. 24/2 "Its thrust during the remaining years of the 1980s will continue to be on agrobusiness and energy development. "

agrochemical , [sb.] (and [a.] )

(1970) Daily Tel. 28 Apr. 22/1 "While a rapid turn-round can be expected in agrochemicals, the position in the main fertiliser market remains uncertain. "

ailantine , [a.] and [sb.]

(1863) All Y. Round 11 July 467/1 "Ailanthine sericulture would remain in great measure unproductive."

air-line

(1930) R. Peele Compressed Air Plant (ed. 5) xv. 273 "Air lines are tested from time to time by allowing the air at full pressure to remain in the closed transmission circuit long enough to observe the gage pressure. "

Akan , [a.] and [sb.]

(1897) J. M. Sarbah Fanti Customary Laws 3 "The words `Akan' (Akanfu) arose probably from the way the Mfantsifu referred to those who remained at Takieman. The word Akan to our mind means a remnant. "

alarm-post .

(1844) Regul. &. Ord. Army 180 "Although a Regiment or a Division may remain for a single night only in a quarter, yet an Alarm-Post is invariably to be established."

Alencon .

(1865) F. B. Palliser Hist. Lace xiii. 171 "A few observations remain to be made respecting the dates of Alen&ccdil.on point. "

aleph .

(1920) A. S. Eddington Space, Time &. Gravitation iii. 59 "It reminds us of the mathematicians' transfinite number Aleph; you can subtract any number you like from it and it still remains the same. "

alien , [a.] and [sb.]

(1780) Burke Econ. Ref. Wks. 1842 I. 238 "A system of confusion remains, which is not only alien, but adverse to all economy. "

alight , [v. 1]

(1786) J. Jeffries Narr. 2 Aerial Voyages 16 "After alighting for a moment..M. Blanchard threw out the remaining part of our sand ballast. "

aligreek

(A. 1884) Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict. s.v. M&ae.ander, "As guillochis or m&eacu.andres are known in Italy as alla Greca, so the word grecque is likely to remain in France the technical name of the m&eacu.andre. "

alizarin .

(1876) Jrnl. Chem. Soc. ii. 234 "The contamination of the printed cotton with iron is thus prevented, and only the pure alumina lake, that is to say, the pure alizarin-red, remains upon the cotton. "

all , [a.] , [sb.] , and [adv.]

(1849) Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 557 "If he refuses to govern us at all, we are not bound to remain..without a government. "

(1928) J. T. MacCurdy Comm. Princ. Psychol. &. Physiol. 168 " Adrian..found that, in the isolated fibre, the strength of the impulse, once it was set up, remained constant and could not be increased by augmenting the strength of the stimulus. This is known as the all-or-none law of the nerve impulse. "

allodial alodial , [a.] and [sb.]

(1857) Sir F. Palgrave Norm. &. Eng. II. 264 "A patch of arable tilled by the remaining allodial rustics. "

alloeopathist .

(1849) Hahnemann's Organon Introd. 28 "However..he may affect to be a hom&oe.opathist, [he] is and will always remain a generalizing all&oe.opathist."

allograft , [sb.]

(1983) Nature 14 July 121/1 "The way in which the maternal immune system is regulated during pregnancy to allow the survival of the fetal allograft remains unsolved."

allometry .

(1940) G. R. de Beer Embryos &. Ancestors iv. 25 "The relative growth-rates of the allometric organ and of the body remain constant during long periods. "

allowance , [sb.]

(1528) Perkins Profit. Bk. v. §.326 (1642) 144 "If a man seised of three acres..enfeoffeth a stranger..of two of the three acres..and the wife is endowed of the third acre which remaineth as allowance of the other acres. "

alnage .

(1736) Carte Ormonde I. 141 "Alnage was to remain as already settled by law."

alternative , [a.] and [sb.]

(1814) Miss Austen Lady Susan xxxviii. (1879) 282 "It is impossible to submit to such an extremity while another alternative remains. "

(1836) J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. i. (1852) 19 "Yet law was never so repealed but that it still remained as the alternative. "

alum , [sb.]

(1875) Ure Dict. Arts I. 105 "[Alum] seems to have come to Europe in later times as alum of Rocca, the name of Edessa; but it is not impossible that this name was an Italian prefix, which has remained to this day under the name of Rock Alum, Allume di Rocca."

amalgamate , [v.]

(1802) T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) III. 489 "It remains to amalgamate the comptroller and auditor into one. "

ambassage embassage .

(1598) Hakluyt Voy. I. 150 "One deceased by the way,..and the other remained sick..so that ambassage took none effect. "

ambo .

(1753) Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., "In some churches remains of the Ambos are still seen. "

amid , [adv.] and [prep.]

(1812) Miss Austen Mansf. Pk. (1847) 71 "The carriage drove off amid the good wishes of the two remaining ladies. "

ammunitioned , [ppl. a.]

(1870) Daily News 17 Dec., "The remaining forty, well armed, ammunitioned, and in good condition, established themselves in two or three private houses."

amphibious , [a.]

(1941) New Statesman 15 Feb. 151/2 "There remains the possibility of `amphibious' warfare. "

amphidisc .

(1867) J. Hogg Microsc. ii. ii. 389 "Remains of the dead sponge, empty gemmule-cases with their amphidiscs. "

amphigouri .

(1869) N. &. Q. Ser. iv. III. 145 "The remaining verses..of the following amphigory."

ample , [a.]

(1860) Whyte-Melville Mkt. Harb. 60 "Mrs. Dove, an ample lady, with the remains of considerable beauty. "

amplification .

(1943) Gloss. Terms Telecomm. (B.S.I.) 32 "Amplification factor, the voltage factor of the anode and the control electrode, the anode current remaining unchanged. "

amusement .

(1771) Junius Lett. xlix. 257 "The remainder of the summer shall be dedicated to your amusement. "

anaerobe .

(1959) J. Clegg Freshwater Life (ed. 2) 68 "The decomposition of the organic remains by anaerobic bacteria results in the formation of sulphuretted hydrogen. "

anaesthetic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1955) Oxf. Jun. Encycl. XI. 4/2 "A patient to whom a general anaesthetic is administered loses consciousness, while a local anaesthetic affects only the area of operation, the patient remaining fully conscious. Cocaine..the most commonly used local anaesthetic, was introduced in 1879."

anapaest .

(1846) Grote Greece II. ii. vii. 572 "The scanty fragments remaining to us of his elegies and anap&ae.sts. "

anapnograph .

(1870) S. Gee Auscult. &. Percuss. ii. §.2 &page.1 "Whether the anapnograph will be more useful remains to be seen."

anathema .

(1608) Topsell Serpents 779 "Will not permit a [spider's] web-the very pattern, index, and anathema of supernaturall wisdome-to remain untouched. "

anatomist , [a.] and [sb.]

(1830) Lyell Princ. Geol. 3 "A comparative anatomist may derive some accession of knowledge from the bare inspection of the remains of an extinct quadruped. "

anatomy .

(1662) Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 496 "The anatomy of a man lying in the tombe abovesaid, onely the bones remaining. "

anchor , [sb. 1]

(1965) Guardian 20 Sept. 4/8 "`Panorama' will continue... Richard Dimbleby remains the anchor. "

(1877) Green Phys. Geol. iii. §.2. 109 "Anchor-ice forms sometimes..at the bottom of lakes and rivers while the rest of the water remains unfrozen. "

(1876) Davis Polaris Exp. viii. 219 "The tidal observations were made by..the *anchor-watch during the remaining nine hours. "

ancient , [a.] and [sb. 1]

(1846) Ellis Elgin Marbles I. 1 "The remains of antient art at Athens. "

(1958) Listener 23 Jan. 150/2 "The Ancient Monuments Department of the Ministry of Works has set out to preserve what remains."

and , [conj. 1] formerly [prep.]

(1846) Grote Greece (1869) I. i. 29 "And thus she remained a whole year. "

anethol .

(1863) Watts Dict. Chem. I. 297 "Oil of anise..appears to consist of two distinct oils, one of which solidifies at temperatures below 10°., while the other remains fluid at all temperatures. The former is generally known as anethol or anise-camphor. "

an-hungry [a.]

(1681) R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 123 "Many times we were forced to remain an hungry."

animalist .

(1837) P. Parley Sun, Moon, &. Stars liv. (ed. 2) 284 "Vegetablists say that it is a fungous plant..but the animalists agree in affirming it to be the altered remains of dead frogs."

animism .

(1864) Sat. Rev. 10 Dec. 726/1 "All spiritual belief came to be laughed at.. There was no more account of Stahl and `animism.' Nothing but sheer materialism remained."

anoci-association .

(1961) Brit. Med. Dict. 106/2 "Anoci-association... The patient is kept free from fear by management and narcotics, remains in ignorance of the time of the operation, and is anaesthetized in such a way that no adaptive response is excited. The field of operation is completely blocked by local anaesthetics so that traumatic impulses do not reach the brain [etc.]."

anthropocentric , [a.]

(1863) Draper Intell. Devel. Eur. iii. (1865) 42 "In the most ancient records remaining, the Hindu mind is dealing with anthropocentric conceptions..of the moral kind. "

anthropolite .

(1863) G. Kearley Links in Chain, "A veritable anthropolite, the petrified remains of one of the accursed race that was swept away by the flood."

anti-democrat

(1939) War Illustr. 9 Dec. 416/3 "Fascism remains anti-Communist, but it also remains obstinately anti-democratic."

antidoron .

(1957) Oxf. Dict. Chr. Ch. 1005/1 "Among the E. Orthodox..the so-called `antidoron'..i.e. what remains of the loaves from which the Eucharistic Bread is cut, is held to share in the liturgical offering, and is distributed as a consolation to those unable to receive Holy Communion."

Antiguan , [sb.] and [a.]

(1985) Washington Post 12 June a30/4 "A handful of Jamaicans, Barbadians or Antiguans, remnants of the U.S.-sponsored Caribbean Peace Force, are likely to remain on hand for a number of months to supervise Grenadian guards at the Richmond Hill prison."

anti-hero .

(1907) F. W. Chandler Lit. Roguery I. ii. 68 "A work of the Eulenspiegel type..its anti-heroes remain less roguish than Till. "

(1959) Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Nov. 670/4 "Ulysses was and remains the first great masterpiece of anti-heroic literature."

antinode .

(1882) J. D. Everett Vibratory Motion &. Sound v. 51 "Comparing together the four positions of the string..points A, C, and A1 remain permanently at rest, and the points B and D midway between them undergo the largest displacement... The points of permanent rest, A, C, and A1 are called nodes and the points of maximum displacement, B and D, antinodes. "

Antiochene , [a.] and [sb.]

(1939) P. Hughes Pop. Hist. Ch. ii. 36 "The Antiochenes, remaining obdurately aloof, were excommunicated too."

antiquarian , [a.] and [sb.]

(1872) Hardwick Trad. Lanc. 220 "A thoroughgoing antiquarian would call this a Druidical remain."

antique , [a.] and [sb.]

(1596) Spenser State Irel. 28 "A nation so antique, as that no monument remaines of her beginning. "

antiquity .

(1869) Rawlinson Anc. Hist. 2 "Antiquities, or the actual extant remains of ancient times."

any , [a.] and [pron.]

(1854) Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sc., Chem. 507 "Whilst any lead..remains to be removed."

ao dai .

(1977) Time 9 May 21/1 "A stroll along busy Tu Do Street [in Saigon]..remains one of the most fascinating city walks in the world, a gauntlet of boutiques, cafes and attractive women in ao dai."

apanage appanage .

(1862) Lond. Rev. 26 July 71 "The diplomatic service..must always remain the apanage of the wealthy."

apoinctee

(1682) Scarlett Exch. 20 "Substract the Provision and Courtagie, and the Remainder is the Apoinctee (the Neat Sum)."

appearance .

(1793) Smeaton Edystone L. §.253 "The weather..had remained to all appearance much the same. "

appetite , [sb.]

(1876) Mozley Univ. Serm. vii. 147 "We have those appetites so long as we remain in the flesh."

appliance .

(1561) T. N[orton] Calvin's Inst., "It remaineth that by applyance all the same [benefits] may come to us. "

archaeological [a.]

(1871) Tylor Prim. Culture I. 19 "Arch&ae.ological inference from the remains of pre-historic tribes."

archaeometry .

(1972) Nature 31 Mar. 225/1 "The magnetic charts now being prepared from these data may be used as an archaeometric standard with which to date other remains from this part of the world. "

archosaur .

(1962) New Scientist 5 July 34 "The remains of small archosaurs, probably representative of the primitive stock from which the dinosaurs originated. "

archway .

(1868) Q. Victoria Life in Highl. 22 "Part of the old castle and the archway remains."

arise , [v.]

(1779) J. Moore View Soc. II. liv. 49 "All the audience..immediately arise, and remain in a standing posture till their sovereign sit down. "

arm [sb. 2]

(1710) Lond. Gaz. mmmmdccviii/2 "The remaining 12,500 Arms not already contracted for. "

Armagnac .

(1910) Encycl. Brit. XI. 904/2 "The remainder [of the wine produced in the department of Gers] is chiefly manufactured into brandy, known by the name of Armagnac, second only to Cognac in reputation. "

arrear , [sb.]

(1676) Bates Immort. Soul, "There remains in another world a dreadful arrear of misery."

arrearage .

(1691) Blount Law Dict., "Arrearages, the Remain of an Accompt, or a Sum of Money remaining in the Hands of an Accomptant. It is sometimes used more generally for any Money unpaid at a due Time. "

arrearance

(1731) Bailey, "Arrearances, Arrears, are the remainders of any rents or monies unpaid at the due time."

arrentation .

(1306) Ord. Forest&ae., Act 34 Edw. I, v, "Quod haye et fossata facta medio tempore prosternantur et penitus commoveantur et adnichilentur, saluis arentacionibus nostris quas secundum assisam foreste volumus remanere. Transl. in Pulton: That the hedges and diches..shall be wholly cast downe, remoued, and avoided: saving our Arrentations which we will have remaine according to the assise of the Forest. "

arsinoitherium .

(1902) H. J. L. Beadnell Prel. Note Arsinoitherium Zitteli 3 "Discovery of Eocene mammalian and reptilian remains made last year by the Geological Survey of Egypt... The most important of these is a large, heavily built, ungulate, about the size of a rhinoceros, and for which the writer proposes the generic name Arsinoitherium, from Queen Arsinoe, after whom the Fayum was called in Ptolemic times. "

art , [sb.]

(1963) Times 17 May 18/4 "Official taste remains complacently becalmed at action-painting and art autre."

artefactual , [a.]

(1963) Kwang-chih Chang Archaeol. Anc. China 1 "The study of bygone cultures and civilizations by means of their artifactual remains has never ceased to be a part of the historical method. "

articulable , [a.]

(1897) W. James Let. 28 Apr. (1920) II. 58 "Life and mysticism exceed the articulable, and if there is a One..it must remain only mystically expressed. "

artist , [sb.] and [a.]

(1747) J. Spence (title) "Polymetis: an Enquiry concerning the agreement between the works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of the Ancient Artists. "

Aryanize , [v.]

(1935) L. L. Snyder From Bismarck to Hitler viii. 81 "Only in their outer forms will Japan and other `bearers of civilization' remain Asiatic; inwardly they will become Aryanized. "

as , [adv.] ( [conj.] , and [rel. pron.] )

(1663) Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872-5 II. 140 "If they had any thing as that remained on their part."

Ascot .

(1828) Sporting Mag. June 202/2 "Ascot still remains a pattern to all race courses throughout the kingdom. "

ashery .

(1884) L. F. &. R. L. Allen New Amer. Farm Bk. 62 "Spent lye of the asheries, is the liquid which remains after the combination of the lye and grease in manufacturing soap."

assemblage .

(1833) Ht. Martineau Fr. Wines &. Pol. i. 13 "Of the chesnut woods nothing remained but an assemblage of bare poles."

assumpting [vbl. sb.]

(1565) Calfhill Answ. Treat. Crosse (1846) 153 "The same divine nature, after the assumpting of flesh, to remain notwithstanding incircumscriptible."

astound , [ppl. a.]

(1600) Fairfax Tasso xix. lxv, "Vafrine..with griefe and care Remain'd astound. "

astral , [a.] (and [sb.] )

(1910) Encycl. Brit. VII. 714/2 "The remaining radiations at the two poles of the spindle are the `astral rays'."

astronaut .

(1957) P. Moore Sci. &. Fiction xvii. 171 "The astronauts taking off for the planet Hesikos remain standing upright. "

at , [prep.]

(1652) Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 425 "To remain at his judgement and award. "

atmosphere , [sb.]

(1923) H. G. Baynes tr. Jung's Psychol. Types v. 230 "The religion of the last two thousand years..has, thereby, created an atmosphere which remains wholly uninfluenced by any intellectual disavowal. "

atonal , [a.]

(1963) Listener 14 Feb. 313/3 "Luigi Dallapiccola, an atonalist who has remained faithful to his country's abiding concern for melody."

atoneside atoside [advb. phr.]

(1621) Molle Camerar. Liv. Lib. iii. xx. 217 "The third made that which remained to hang a tone-side."

atresia .

(1903) Nature 20 Aug. 384/2 "Other atresic follicles are reduced to fibrous tissue or remain cystic. "

atrophiated , [ppl. a.]

(1634) T. Johnson tr. Parey's Chirurg. xxix. (1678) 711 "Every part which hath not his motion remaineth languid and atrophiated. "

attest , [v.]

(1876) Green Short Hist. i. §.4 (1882) 37 "Forty-five works remained after his death to attest his prodigious industry."

attitude .

(1831) Carlyle Sart. Res. i. iv, "The remainder [of his sentences] are in quite angular attitudes, buttressed-up by props (of parentheses and dashes)."

attraction .

(1858) Sir J. Herschel Astron. §.564 "In so far as their orbits can remain unaltered by the attractions of the planets. "

aura .

(1732) Berkeley Alciphr. II. 35 "After which [i.e. the flying off of the volatile salt or spirit] the Oil remains dry and insipid, but without any sensible diminution of its weight, by the loss of that volatile essence of the soul, that &ae.thereal aura. "

Aurignac

(1875) Encycl. Brit. II. 336 "[The bones of] other extinct mammals, alongside of human remains and works of art, in the famous Aurignac caves of the Pyrenees. "

Aurignacian , [a.] and [sb.]

(1914) Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LXX. p. xcviii, "A bed was found, which yielded the incised drawings..as well as numerous mammalian remains and flint-implements; and this is regarded as of Aurignacian age. Immediately below the last-mentioned bed a deposit of sand..was penetrated..and this deposit, also referred to the Aurignacian, was found to contain an enormous number of bones. "

auscultate , [v.]

(1892) Stevenson &. Osbourne Wrecker xv. 233 "It was therefore necessary..to auscultate what remained [of the ship], like a doctor sounding for a lung disease. "

Austin , [a.] and [sb.]

(C. 1812) Oxoniana I. 5 "Some traces of this practice [disputationes in Augustinensibus] still remain in the University exercises, and the common phrase of scholars `doing Austins' has a direct allusion to it."

Australopithecus .

(1947) Lancet 14 June 837/1 "Later, more remains of the same type of creature were discovered..and these are now all regarded as representatives of a common sub-family, the Australopithecinae. "

auto- (1) ,

(1891) Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LX. 1151 "Autocatalysis... The presence of a salt of the acid, for instance the sodium salt, in the solution, retards the formation of the lactone very considerably, and the amount of free acid in the solution, as determined alkalimetrically, remains constant for days together. "

(1920) Flight XII. 1194/2 "Below 15°. the aerofoil remains at rest, but at high angles it auto-rotates, slowly at first, and then more quickly. "

autochthonous , [a.]

(1876) tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 189 "An autochthonous or primitive thrombus is one which remains confined in the part in which it first arose, especially in the heart."

avalanche , [sb.]

(1789) Coxe Trav. Switz. xxxviii. II. 3 "We crossed some snow, the remains of a last winter's Avalanche. "

avert , [v.]

(1540) Act 32 Hen. VIII, xxix, "Landes..shall..be descendable, remaine, auert, come, and be inheritable."

avouch , [v.]

(1540) Househ. Ord. Hen. VIII in Thynne's Animadv. Introd. 35 "The Clerkes-Comptrollers to goe with him to take the said Remaines to be advouched with him, what the expence shall rise to. Item..the Booke of Comptrollment..shall be put yearly into the Exchequer, to be advoucht to the Cofferers account."

ay aye , [adv.]

(1608) Shaks. Per. iii. i. 63 "Aye-remaining lamps. "

baba (2)

(1827) L. E. Ude French Cook 461 "The oven must be moderately hot, as the babas must remain a long time in. "

Babel .

(1703) Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 16 "What remains of this mighty Babel..is no more than twenty Foot high. "

background , [sb.]

(1849) Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 253 "Political friends thought it best..that he should remain in the background. "

backing , [vbl. sb.]

(1780) A. Young Tour in Ireland 195 "The remainder is called backings, and is spun into the coarsest stuff. "

back-stop

(1851) F. Starr 20 Yrs. of Trav.'s Life xiii. 143 "The remaining shaft..broke off short, and that which when we started was a gig, was now a back stop for horses' heels. "

baffle , [sb. 1]

(1843) Foster in Life &. Corr. (1846) II. 458, "I remained in a kind of baffle between that perfectly preserved image, and his actual appearance."

bag , [sb.]

(1529) Latimer Serm. (1844) 20 "Yet there may remain a bag of rusty malice, 20 years old, in thy neighbour's bosom. "

bagasse .

(1960) Times 8 Jan. 7 "Mauritius..solved the problems of a one-crop economy by burning `bagasse', the fibre that remains after sugar cane is crushed. "

baht .

(1963) Whitaker's Almanack 934/1 "The exchange rate for the Baht is not officially fixed, but has for some time remained in the neighbourhood of Baht 59 = &pstlg.1 sterling, with little fluctuation."

bail , [sb. 1]

(1642) Declar. Lords &. Comm. 22 Dec. 6 "To some common Goale, there to remaine without Bayle or Mainprize. "

bailiff .

(1873) Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xxi. 561 "In those towns in which there was no mayor, the presidency of the local courts remained with the bailiffs."

baked , [ppl. a.]

(1858) Birch Anc. Pottery Introd. 5 "Remains of baked earthenware. "

balance , [sb.]

(1622) Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 370 "Take all the remainders of the Accounts by Debitor and Creditor, which is the ballance of the Booke. "

(1828) Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 221 "The large balance of the ransom which still remained unpaid. "

(1875) Blackw. Mag. Apr. 443 "Balance, long familiar to American ears, is becoming so to ours. In an account of a ship on fire we read `Those saved remained the balance of the night watching the burning wreck.' "

(1958) M. E. Burton Lett. M. Wordsworth p. xxviii, "Mary often chooses to remain behind. She is the balance-wheel. "

balanced , [ppl. a.]

(1874) S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (Adv. Sci. ser.) iv. xx. 340 "The balanced rudder revolves about an axis so situated that about two-thirds the area of the rudder is on the aft, and the remaining one-third on the fore side of the axis. "

ball , [sb. 1]

(1710) Lond. Gaz. No. 4702/2 "The Powder, small Ball, and small Arms remaining in the Garrisons. "

(1857) Trollope Three Clerks I. ix. 183 "The ball is at your foot now, but it won't remain there. "

ballooning , [vbl. sb.]

(1893) A. S. Eccles Sciatica 3 "In the remaining nine cases there was more or less ballooning of the rectum."

ballpark

(1985) Aviation Week &. Space Technol. 23 Sept. 14/2 "A previously established gross takeoff weight target of 50,000 lb. remains in effect... `We're confident we're in the right ballpark now,' Russ said."

banking , [vbl. sb.]

(1853) Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxv. (1856) 321, "I observed one spot where the banking remained."

bannock .

(1860) All Y. Round No. 45. 440 "Barley bannocks and oat cake long remained the staff of life in villages in Scotland. "

bar , [v.]

(1822) T. Taylor Apuleius' Gold. Ass vi. 132 "Having barred the barking of the dog by..the remaining sop. "

bare , [a.] , [adv.] , [sb.]

(1755) Smollett Quix. (1803) I. 233 "Bare I was born, and bare I remain. "

barnacle , [sb. 1]

(1625) tr. Gonsalvio's Sp. Inquis. 145 "Clapped a Barnacle vpon his tongue, which remained there vntill the fire had consumed it. "

barretter .

(1940) Chambers's Techn. Dict. 77/2 "Barretter, an iron wire resistance mounted in a glass bulb containing hydrogen, and having a temperature coefficient so arranged that the variation of resistance produced ensures that the current in the circuit to which it is connected remains constant over a wide range of voltage. "

Barton (2) .

(1847) J. Prestwich in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. III. 357 "Having thus associated the London clay with the Barton beds..the organic remains..were taken as belonging to one and the same deposit. "

base , [sb. 1]

(1925) J. Joly Surface-Hist. Earth vii. 114 "The base-levelled remains of pre-Cambrian mountains or of the ancestral Rockies. "

based , [pa. pple.]

(1925) E. F. Norton Fight for Everest 1924 57 "No. 1 party was to..remain based there for the purpose of getting the next camp on to the North Col."

bashalic bashalick

(1682) Wheler Journ. Greece iii. 238 "It..remaineth yet a Bashalique, although of late governed by a Deputy. "

basket , [sb.]

(1908) Westm. Gaz. 26 Sept. 8/2 "Scotland trout-fishing remains open..and some nice baskets are being made. "

basketry .

(1957) Encycl. Brit. III. 180/2 "No satisfactory automatic basket-weaving machinery was perfected. True basketry, therefore, remains a handicraft."

bastarda .

(1934) A. F. Johnson Type Design 31 "The French `lettre bâ.tarde' then passed out of use..but in Germany the Bastarda has remained the national type. "

baston

(1562) Act 5 Eliz. xxiii. §.8 "The same Party..shall remain in the Prison..without Bail, Baston or Mainprize. "

(1671) F. Phillips Reg. Necess. 475 "Committed to the Tower of London, there to remain one year without bayle, baston or Mainprize."

bate , [sb. 2]

(1798) Ann. Reg. 35/2 "The bate or surplus of the chain remained suspended."

bathing , [vbl. sb.]

(1809) Ld. Malmesbury in G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 355 "Remaining a week for the purpose of bathing."

Bathurst burr .

(1904) S. Rudd Sandy's Selection 4 "The remaining hundred and fifty-six were under scrub, prickly-pear, wallaby-bush and Bathurst burr. "

Batrachia , [sb. pl.]

(1847) Carpenter Zool. §.514 "In the Proteid&ae., or perenni-branchiate Batrachia, the gills remain during the whole of life. "

batter , [v. 1]

(1578) Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 30 "So that the Florentines by this meanes should remaine battered. "

battery .

(1911) D. S. Hulfish Cycl. Motion-Pict. Work II. 137 "The remaining proportion of light may be supplied by lighting a partial battery of lamps. "

bay , [sb. 2]

(1913) R. McNab Old Whaling Days i. 6 "During the following month-November-the remaining bay whalers returned to Sydney. "

bean , [sb.]

(1818) Scott Hrt. Midl. xviii, "He shall hide himself in a bean-hool if he remains on Scottish ground without my finding him. "

beard , [sb.]

(1757) Burke Abridgm. Eng. Hist. Wks. X. 184 "The Britons..shaved the beard on the chin, that on the upper lip was suffered to remain. "

(A. 1700) Dryden (J.) "Some thin remains of chastity appeared Ev'n under Jove, but Jove without a beard. "

beast , [v.]

(1768) Acad. of Play 83 "He who looks at the cards that remain in the Stock is beasted. "

beat , [v. 1] [str.] &. [wk.]

(1784) King Voy. (1790) V. 1712 "We remained several days beating up, but in vain, to regain our former birth. "

bed , [sb.]

(1974) Observer 17 Feb. 15/4 "Bed and breakfast operations..allow investors to establish a gains tax loss yet effectively remain in the same shares on which losses have accumulated... Bed and breakfasting has become more and more popular over the years. "

(1899) Daily News 30 Sept. 6/1 "Night by night he remained at the office till the last, seeing the paper to bed (to use the old-fashioned phrase), and examining the first copies printed. "

Bedouin , [sb.] (and [a.] )

(1635) Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 71 "A few Christians remaining, called Bedwins. "

bee (1) .

(1816) J. Scott Vis. Paris 239 "The remains found in the tomb of Childeric, were chiefly gold bees, from which Buonaparte took the hint of covering his mantle..with representations of that insect."

bee (2) .

(C. 1860) H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 74 "Where it rests on the stem is the bed, and the remainder the beeseating. "

behind , [adv.] , [prep.] ( [sb.] )

(1630) Wadsworth Sp. Pilgr. vii. 71 "The remainder of the regiment..[was] giuen to Sir Iames Creeton, there being behind Captain Lucy..with diuerse other..Captaines."

behindhand , [adv.] (and [a.] )

(1853) Robertson Serm. Ser. ii. vii. 101 "Was there..something behindhand of Christ's sufferings remaining uncompleted?"

being , [vbl. sb.]

(1581) Fulke in Confer. iii. (1584) Y, "The proper substance of Christes body remaineth not, but a generall being thereof. "

belonging , [vbl. sb.]

(1879) Whitney Skr. Gram. 275 "There remain, as cases of doubtful belonging, etc."

bemire , [v.]

(1574) Hellowes Gueuara's Ep. (1577) 354 "If we sinke not to the bottome, at the leaste we remaine all bemyred. "

benefit , [sb.]

(1927) Carr-Saunders &. Jones Soc. Struct. Eng. &. Wales 150 "The applicant may at the discretion of the Ministry of Labour receive `extended' benefit for the remainder of the benefit year. "

bereft , [ppl. a.]

(1699) Pomfret Love triumph. over Reason 194 "Not quite bereft Of sense, tho' very small remains were left. "

Berliner .

(1859) L. Wraxall tr. Robert-Houdin's Mem. II. vi. 172 "The reception I obtained from the Berliner will ever remain one of my pleasantest reminiscences. "

beseech , [v.]

(1835) Beckford Recoll. 183, "I beseeched him..to remain quiet. "

bet , [sb.]

(1909) Cent. Dict. Suppl., "Bet, in faro, a card which is a case, that is, the only one of that denomination remaining in the box: so called because the player cannot be split."

Bevanism .

(1980) Economist 15 Nov. 115/3 "Note the word `Bevanite'. The left-right divisions of the Labour party remain."

beyond , [adv.] and [prep.]

(C. 1600) Shaks. Sonn. cxxii, "Which shall..remain Beyond all date, even to eternity. "

(1762) Hume Hist. Eng. (1826) V. xli. 228 "Those who should remain beyond that time..should be guilty of treason. "

bi- [pref. 2] ,

(1978) Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 1/7 "The remainder are weeklies, bi-weeklies and three provincial Sunday newspapers."

Bible .

(1827) Cunningham N.S. Wales II. xxx. 252 "None remained but the old fence, who continued Bible-reading to the end of the voyage. "

bibliographical [a.]

(1679) (title) "Baconiana, Or Certain Genuine Remains of Sr. Francis Bacon..in Arguments Civil and Moral, Natural,..and Bibliographical. "

bien , [adv.]

(1958) Listener 7 Aug. 209/2 "The pitiful, hasty funeral from which the local bien-pensants remain away. "

big , [a.]

(1947) R. de Toledano Frontiers of Jazz xiii. 137 "It remains the best big band jazz. "

(1935) M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer xxviii. 261 "Of the big-time news-hawks who had gathered in Keedora, only Matter remained. "

bilge , [sb.]

(1866) Daily Tel. 7 Nov., "We were only blown over on our other bilge, and remained fast."

bill , [sb. 3]

(1884) Gladstone in Standard 29 Feb. 2/7 "We knew..that the Bill must remain a Bill, and could never have become an Act of Parliament."

bill [v. 3]

(1728) Ramsay Wks. (1848) III. 137 "Poor Pousies..bill'd the judge, that he wad please To give them the remaining cheese."

bio- ,

(1955) Bull. Atomic Sci. May 200/2 "The only biomedical data which remains classified is in piecemeal or incomplete form and therefore inadequate for use by the medical profession. "

biogenesis .

(1959) New Scientist 27 Aug. 302/2 "The mode of biogenesis of cellulose still remains one of the major unsolved problems of carbohydrate chemistry."

biography , [sb.]

(1883) Halliwell-Phillipps Life Shaks. Pref. 8 "The scanty records of the poet's biography that yet remain."

biological , [a.] (and [sb.] )

(1942) J. S. Huxley Evolution v. 166 "Groups..remain separate in spite of the complete or almost complete absence of morphological differences. In many such cases (e.g. in `biological' or `physiological races'), the allocation of specific rank must be a mere matter of opinion and convenience. "

biologize [v.]

(1874) Carpenter Ment. Phys. (1876) 553 "The Mind of the Biologized `subject' seems to remain entirely dormant. "

biota .

(1957) Nature 4 May 892/2 "The need for planned observational work on the airborne biota still remains."

biotype .

(1906) W. Johannsen in Rep. Third Internat. Conference Genetics 98 "It remains quite uncertain whether the numbers..contain a multitude, or a few, or only one single `sort' of organism-`biotypes' as I have called them. "

bipunctual , [a.]

(1878) Amer. Jrnl. Math. I. 152 "As long as the direction of reference remains fixed, the only change that can be made in a system of bipunctual coordinates is an alteration in the position of the initials. "

birth , [sb. 1]

(1528) Tindale Doctr. Treat. (1848) 301 "By the reason of original sin, or *birth-poison, that remaineth in him. "

biscuit .

(1600) Shaks. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 39 "As drie as the remainder bisket After a voyage. "

bistable , [a.]

(1970) Nature 24 Oct. 319/2 "It is, however, possible to obtain bistable switching action in which the device remains indefinitely in the desired `on' or `off' state until specifically switched out of it."

bit , [sb. 1]

(1890) Field 6 Sept. 393 "At the top of the hill we cast off our leader, the remaining four go in their collars and up to their bits. "

(1962) Listener 1 Nov. 739/3 "North remained on the bit for so long [in Bridge bidding] that his partner's interest in a slam could not be awakened."

bite , [sb.]

(1882) Blades Caxton 130 "In `Speculum Vit&ae. Christi' we actually find `a bite,' half of the bottom line remaining unprinted."

bitter [sb. 3]

(1867) Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 103 "A ship is `brought up to a bitter' when the cable is allowed to run out to that stop..When a chain or rope is paid out to the bitter-end, no more remains to be let go."

bitumene .

(1873) Fownes Chem. 758 "Bitumene, a blackish liquid, remains in the retort at a dull red heat, and solidifies on cooling."

black [sb.]

(C. 1816) Yng. Woman's Comp. 196 "Let the blamange settle before you turn it into the forms, or the blacks will remain at the bottom. "

black house

(1911) W. C. Mackenzie in N. Munro Home Life of Highlanders 38 "In some of the outlying districts..there are phases of life that have apparently remained unaltered since the Middle Ages. They are typified by the `black houses', many of which are still to be found in the Long Island. "

black spot

(1936) Discovery Nov. 355/2 "The development of newer industries is vital to the recovery of our distressed areas, which remain the one black spot in the otherwise remarkable position of Great Britain. "

black water

(1977) P. Scott Staying On xv. 199 "He would spend his remaining years like a little dog at Lila's heels, panting after her all round India and perhaps beyond the black water."

blade , [sb.]

(1674) Petty Disc. bef. R. Soc. 59 "Suppose, that the Oars remain the same length, but that the Blade be doubled. "

blameful , [a.]

(1642) Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1738 I. 130 "Those who..blamefully permitted the old leven to remain."

blank , [sb.]

(1759) Franklin Ess. Wks. 1840 III. 525 "The remainder of that day was wasted..The next was a blank likewise. "

blank , [v.]

(1963) Guardian 7 Mar. 3/2 "Three-wheeled vehicles with the reverse gear `blanked off'..remain Group `A' vehicles..attracting a higher rate of duty."

blanket , [sb.]

(1920) Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 220/1 "Only one small tin of corned beef remained in his *blanket-pack. "

blast , [v.]

(1969) Times 17 May 8/1 "It only remains for three veteran space travellers..to blast off on Sunday."

blea , [sb.]

(1753) Chambers Cycl. Suppl. s.v., "While the blea remains yet soft..it may maintain a feeble vegetation. "

blender .

(1984) N.Y. Times 22 Jan. vi. 48/3 "Cut the remaining salmon into small cubes and put them in the container of a food processor or electric blender."

bloc .

(1903) Ann. Reg. 1902 272 "The Government remained in the hands of the bloc; and the Radical-Socialist party was free to proceed with the enforcement of the law with regard to the Congregations. "

block , [sb.]

(1866) Bryant Death Slavery vii, "There shall the grim block remain, At which the slave was sold."

(1916) C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke 118 "To lose or do in the block, to become flustered; excited; angry; to lose confidence. To keep the block, to remain calm, dispassionate. "

blood , [sb.]

(1915) Jrnl. Exper. Med. XXII. 213 "When the *blood urea remains constant the rate times the square root of the concentration in the urine remains constant. "

bloom , [sb. 1]

(1888) Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 602/2 "The smell common to all wines (which remains in an empty wine cask after the bloom proper has gone)."

blotted , [ppl. a.]

(1751) Johnson Rambl. No. 169 &page.11 "The blotted manuscripts of Milton now remaining. "

boarship .

(1796) Southey Lett. Spain &. Port. (1799) 140 "His boarship remained unhurt, and was suffered to go to his den."

boat , [sb.]

(1769) Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) "*Boat-Keeper, one of the rowers, who remains..to take care of any boat. "

bocardo bokardo .

(1772) Wharton Newman's Verses, "Rare tidings for the wretch whose ling'ring score Remains unpaid, bocardo is no more. "

bodikin bodikie

(1668) Culpepper &. Cole Barthol. Anat. ii. vi. 106 "Small Boddikies or indivisible Particles of the Blood..If any reliques of the said Bodikies did remain. "

body , [sb.]

(1753) Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., "A man is said to be bound or held in Body and goods; that is, he is liable to remain in prison; in default of payment. "

Boghead boghead .

(1960) Gloss. Coal Terms (B.S.I.) 6 "Boghead coal, Torbanite, coal resembling cannel coal in physical appearance and properties, but distinguished microscopically by the presence of the remains of algae."

bold , [a.]

(1611) Shaks. Cymb. ii. iv. 2, "I would I were so sure To winne the King, as I am bold, her Honour Will remaine her's. "

Bonapartism .

(1815) T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 247 "Disgraced by an association in opposition with the remains of Bonaparteism. "

bond , [sb. 1]

(1979) Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 20 Sept. 7c/3 "O'Brien has remained free on bond during the appeals process."

bone , [sb.]

(1903) L. M. E. Solon Old Eng. Porcelain, 220 "This evergreen `bone china' has remained unaltered ever since the first pieces of it came out of Spode's oven. "

bonnet , [sb.]

(1877) Kinglake Crimea III. v. 364 "Three out of the four remaining angles of the octagon were furnished with small bonnettes and barbettes."

boodle (2) .

(1862) Kingsley in Macm. Mag. Dec. 96 "A good many people..have seen all the world, and yet remain little better than blokes and boodles after all."

book , [v.]

(1844) Dickens Mart. Chuz. li. 592 "The other [man], seating himself on the steps of the coach, remained in conversation with Slyme... `He's booked,' observed the man. `Through,' said Slyme. "

boor .

(1762) Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) III. App. iii. 633 "Some remains of the ancient slavery of the boors and peasants. "

boot-strap bootstrap , [sb.]

(1962) Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 42 "Bootstrap, 1. A form of program input in which simple preset computer operations are used to read in initial instructions which in turn cause further instructions to be read until the complete program is assembled. 2. The process of using parts of a compiler to construct the remainder of the same compiler. "

booty , [sb.]

(1831) Disraeli Yng. Duke (L.), "One thing remained to be lost-what he called his honour, which was already on the scent to play booty."

bo-peep .

(1658) Osborn Jas. I. (1673) 526 "Forced to..die in a Prison, or play at Bo-peep all the remainder of their days with their Creditors. "

bore , [v. 1]

(1780) Coxe Russ. Disc. 334 "All the worm-eaten roots are rejected; the remainder are bored through. "

borize , [v.]

(1884) W. M. Williams Borized Meats in Gentl. Mag., "The borized haunch remained perfectly untainted..The circulation of the borized blood might be continued."

borne , [a.]

(1850) Househ. Words 3 Aug. 434/1 "The Rockvilles remained high, proud, bigotted, and born&eacu.. "

Boskop .

(1926) Bantu Studies II. 219 "Comparison has been made mainly with the Boskopoid remains from Zitzikama reported upon..during the last two years, and with the descriptions of the original Boskop remains. "

Boswellize [v.]

(1855) Tait's Mag. XXII. 444/2 "We had rather the many-sided man should remain to us the mystery he is, than be Boswellised after the fashion which is now current. "

botch , [sb. 2]

(1829) J. Kenney Illust. Stranger ii. i. 24 "Some botch of an embalmer, who had not done justice to Your princely remains. "

bottine .

(1866) Illust. Lond. News 2 June 546 "The fashionable bottines have merely the toes of leather, the remainder of the boot being of some thin textile fabric. "

bottle , [sb. 2]

(1837) Southern Lit. Messenger III. 656 " They have yet founded no city to themselves..but are willing to remain the boot-cleaners and the *bottle-washers of the whites. "

bottom , [sb.]

(1878) Huxley Physiogr. 152 "The surface freezes while the *bottom-water remains several degrees warmer."

bottomry .

(1748) Anson Voy. i. i. 9 "The remaining [&pstlg.] 5000 they raised on bottomry bonds. "

bouffage

(1672) Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend ix. (1881) 134 "His inwards and flesh remaining could make no bouffage, but a light bit for the grave."

bounden , [ppl. a.]

(C. 1585) Faire Em i. 222, "I thank your highness, whose bounden I remain. "

bowing [sb.]

(1808-79) Jamieson Dict. s.v., "To tak a farm in a bowin, to take a lease of a farm in grass, with the life stock on it; this still remaining the property of the landholder, or person who lets it. Ayrs. "

box , [sb. 2]

(1881) Detroit Free Press 26 Sept. 1/5 "Weidman..will have to go into the box for the remaining four games. "

(1870) E. R. Lankester in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. XXVI. 499, "I have..spent a good deal of time in working at the nodules, which I propose to call `*Box-stones', since the name of `boxes' has been applied to those which exhibit the remains of a shell on being broken open by the phosphate-diggers of Suffolk. "

boxwood

(1880) Printing Times 15 May 116/1 "One or two remaining Abkhasian boxwood forests."

brace , [v. 1]

(1836) Thirlwall Greece II. xv. 306 "Nothing now remained but to brace every nerve for the battle. "

branch , [sb.]

(1655) Fuller Ch. Hist. viii. ii. §.6 "It was vain to strike at the branches, whilest the roote of all Hereticks doth remain. "

(1858) W. Ellis Visits Madagasc. ix. 242 "At the adjacent *branch station..we remained a week. "

breadness .

(1866) Church Times 28 Apr., "The idea that there is no substance, that is to say, no breadness of the Bread remaining. "

break , [v.]

(1580) Baret Alv. B 1200 "The workes be broken and remaine vnperfite for a time. "

(1904) A. J. Newton Boxing viii. 67 "So clinched, they remain..on the lookout for an opportunity to break away in the most favourable manner. "

breathing , [vbl. sb.]

(1946) Jane's Fighting Ships 1944-5 229/2 "The `Schnorkel', or breathing tube,..enabled submarines to remain submerged for much longer periods."

breck

(1662) Fuller Worthies iii. 38 "Monuments..remaining without breck or blemish to this day."

bridge , [sb. 1]

(1884) G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxi. 156 "As we got under the lee of the bridge the wind failed us and we remained motionless in the bridge-way."

briquetage .

(1960) Lincs. Archit. &. Arch&ae.ol. Soc. VIII. 70 "The word `briquetage'..can be used to include debris produced by so many different activities, from potting and salting to corndrying, and it can also include material which may be purely domestic, such as the remains of hearths and chimneys, or the clay walls of buildings which have been burnt."

brisk , [a.] and [sb.]

(1833) Ht. Martineau Br. Creek iii. 64 "A brisk traffic took place in the remaining articles."

brock [sb. 5]

(1770) Hasted in Phil. Trans. LXI. 164 "In the ancient forests of Kent..remain large old chesnut stubs or brocks."

brother [v.]

(A. 1648) Ld. Herbert Life (1826) 327 "There remains now but you and I to brother it."

brown , [a.]

(1836) Knickerbocker VIII. 390 "His poor remains..in one corner.. -a brown stone at his head and foot. "

brut , [sb.]

(1847) Yeowell Anc. Brit. Church Pref. 7 "The only other remains still extant of Ancient Welsh literature consist of Bruts, or Chronicles. "

buffoon , [sb.]

(1585) James I. Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 31 "We remaine With Iuglers, buffons, and that foolish seames. "

Bulgar , [sb.]

(1886) Encycl. Brit. XXI. 78/2 "The Bulgars, whose origin still remains doubtful. "

bunchiness

(1594) Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits iii. (1596) 25 "There will remaine..the forehead and the nape with a little bunchinesse. "

bundle , [sb.]

(1802) Med. &. Phys. Jrnl. VIII. 368 "The Mollusca..have all the remainder of the common bundle of nerves..contained in the same cavity with the other viscera. "

bunyip .

(1852) Mundy Antipodes (1858) ix. 215 "Bunyip became, and remains a Sydney synonyme for impostor, pretender, humbug, and the like. "

bur burr , [sb.]

(1725) Lond. Gaz. No. 6397/2 "Several Burs, Remains of the Farcy. "

burble [v. 1]

(1934) Punch 7 Mar. 280/2 "Lady Placidia was a confirmed burbler, and if at times she is in danger of exceeding her burbling allowance, she remains entirely lovable and amusing."

burgher , [sb.]

(1773) J. Smith Hist. Sk. Relief Ch. 41 "The Burgher clergy maintained that it [the Synod] remained in their society, while the Antiburghers endeavoured to prove that they carried it away with them to Mr. Gibb's manse. "

burglar , [v.]

(1909) Daily Chron. 31 Aug. 1/2 "`Raffles' remains a more endeared and far more possible character than the burglaring `Duke'. "

burglary (1) .

(1975) A. D. Hechtman in McKinney's Consolidated Laws N.Y. 35 "Burglary in the third degree is committed when a person knowingly enters or remains unlawfully in a building with intent to commit a crime therein. If such a building happens to be a dwelling, and the invasion occurs in the night time,..the intruder is..guilty of the more serious crime of burglary in the second degree [etc.]. "

burian

(1794) Stat. Acc. Scotl. XI. 528 (Westerkirk) "There is a great number of burians in this parish. These are all of a circular form, and are from 36 to 50 yards diameter. They are supposed by some to be remains of Pictish encampments. "

burr bur , [sb. 4]

(1611) Florio, "Bocchina..that stalke or necke of a bullet which in the casting remaines in the necke of the mould, called of our Gunners the bur of the bullet. "

burrow , [sb. 1]

(1879) Jefferies Wild Life in S.C. 38 "In heavy rain..they [rabbits] generally remain within their buries."

burrow-mail

(1424) Sc. Acts Jas. I (1597) §.8 "All the greate and smal customes, and burrow-mailles of the Realme, abide and remaine with the King till his living. "

business .

(1901) Merwin &. Webster Calumet `K' i. 15 "All that remained was to wait until the business agent made the next move. "

but , [prep.] , [conj.] , [adv.]

Mod. "There remains no more but to thank you for your courteous attention."

(1780) Madan Thelyph. I. 3 "It is not impossible but that the light of that great reformer had remained hidden under the bushel of monkery."

butchered , [ppl. a.]

(1837) W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. 191 "The remains of their butchered leader. "

butt , [sb. 3]

(1862) Ansted Channel Isl. ii. ix. (ed. 2) 238 "The creature when deprived of food, throwing off part after part, till nothing remains but a little spherical butt."

butter , [sb. 1]

(1672) Grew Phil. Hist. Plants §.51 "No Oyl which remained liquid; but instead of that a Butyr, almost of the Consistence and Colour of the Oyl of Mace. "

butterfly , [sb.]

(1882) in West. Morn. News 25 Nov. 5/6 "The ascending cage was hurled into the headgear, smashing the butterflies and breaking the engine rope, and had it not been for the remaining butterflies the cage must have fallen to the bottom."

button , [sb.]

(1888) C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta II. xv. 452, "I washed the wound..but a red button remained. "

bye , [sb.]

(1887) Golfing 92 "Bye. Any hole or holes that remain to be played after the match is finished, are played for singly; unless the sides agree to make another match of them. "

by-ground

(1611) Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xvi. 96 "Many remnants [of causeways] remaine, especially in pastures, or by-grounds out of the rode way."

by-law bye-law .

(1875) Stubbs Const. Hist. I. v. 91 "In the courts of the manor are transacted the other remaining portions of the old township jurisdiction; the enforcing of pains and penalties on the breakers of by-laws, etc."

byname by-name , [sb.]

(1655) Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. ii. §.52 "Some of these by-names..remained many years after to them, and theirs; amongst which Plantagenist was entailed on the Royal bloud of England. "

by-pass , [sb.]

(1955) Times 26 Aug. 4/5 "In a conventional jet engine all the air is compressed and then heated by the injection of burning fuel, expanded through the turbine, and finally ejected at high velocity. In a by-pass engine only a proportion of the air is compressed and heated; the remainder by-passes the combustion system and turbine and rejoins the heated gases in the jet pipe, to mix with them and lower their temperature before the whole mixture is ejected at a lower speed than that in the `simple' jet engine."

cabotin .

(1930) J. Agate Red Letter Nights (1944) 129 "There remain those impudences..which fell from Duse like sour benedictions, from Sarah with the cabotine's natural, slightly vulgar good nature. "

cachinnatory , [a.]

(1828) Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 188 "Shall our cachinnatory muscles remain rigid? "

cadre .

(1974) Ann. Rev. 1973 316 "The role of cadre schools as places of re-education, where officials could participate in physical labour and political study, remained important. "

Caen-stone

(1598) Stow Surv. 361 "Part of the ruines of the old Temple were seene to remaine builded of Cane stone. "

Caerphilly .

(1958) M. Dickens Man Overboard xv. 243 "His face remained the colour of Caerphilly cheese."

Caesarean Caesarian , [a.] and [sb.]

(1948) Parent's Mag. Apr. 93/1 "Hospitals generally let mothers recovering from a Caesarean remain longer than the ordinary five-day limit. "

cal .

(1875) Ure Dict. Arts III. 1039 "There remains a quantity of this mineral substance (gal). "

calcine , [v.]

(1799) G. Smith Laborat. I. 77 "A little nitre thrown into the crucible, which effectually calcines the remaining regulus of antimony. "

calico .

(1841-44) Emerson Ess. Prudence Wks. (Bohn) I. 99 "Calicoes [cannot] go out of fashion..in the few swift moments..the Yankee suffers..them to remain in his possession. "

caliphate .

(1614) Selden Titles Honor 93 "Whil'st the Chaliphat remained vndeuided. "

calix .

(1801) Med. Jrnl. V. 284 "Remaining in one of the calices or infundibula in the kidneys. "

callable , [a.]

(1959) Economist 18 Apr. 237/2 "With $450 million of the amount for hard loans remaining callable as backing for ordinary bond issues."

cambial , [a.]

(1882) Vines Sach's Bot. 130 "A middle layer of the cambial cells always remains capable of division."

camorra .

(1883) Chamb. Jrnl. 78 "The Camorrist remains the personification of power and heroism to the Neapolitan."

camp , [sb. 2]

(1828-40) Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 153 "The servants who remained in the *camp-huts. "

cancel , [v.]

(1798) Hutton Course Math. (1827) I. 161 "Here the 2 to carry cancels the &min. 2, and there remains the &min. 1 to set down."

cancellate , [a.]

(1835) Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 362 "Cancellate, when the parenchyma is wholly absent, and the veins alone remain, anastomosing and forming a kind of net-work. "

candle , [sb.]

(1727-51) Chambers Cycl. s.v., "There is also a kind of Excommunication by Inch of Candle; wherein, the time a lighted Candle continues burning, is allowed the sinner to come to repentance; but after which, he remains excommunicated to all intents and purposes."

canonical , [a.] (and [sb.] )

(1796) Monthly Rev. XIX. 545 "He..remained the canonical geographer of the antients. "

canteen .

(1796) Calvary Instruct. (1803) 216 "On a march, servants, led horses, and canteen horses remain with their squadrons. "

cap , [sb. 1]

(1662) Fuller Worthies iv. 50 "The best caps were formerly made at Monmouth, where the Cappers Chappel doth still remain. "

capable , [a.]

(1611) Tourneur Ath. Trag. v. i. Wks. 1878 I. 136 "If any roote of life remaines within 'em Capable of Phisicke, feare 'em not my Lord. "

capacity .

(A. 1672) Wood Life (1848) 23 "Being just..in capacity of spending the remainder of his dayes in ease and quietness, he died. "

capillitium .

(1871) Cooke Fungi (1874) 34 "The spinulose projections from the capillitium..are the remains of pedicels. "

(1875) Bennett &. Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 255 "The mass of slender filaments remains as a delicate Capillitium."

capsize , [v.]

(1805) A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. IV. 75 "The captain..expressed his surprise that the ship should remain so long on her beam-ends, in such a heavy sea, without capsizing. "

cap-stone .

(1879) Lubbock Addr. Pol. &. Educ. ix. 157 "A dolmen..of which only the capstone now remains."

capsulotomy .

(1969) S. Duke-Elder Syst. Ophthalmol. XI. i. iii. 272 "The subsequent capsulotomy which is required if the posterior capsule remains intact should be undertaken soon after the eye has become quiet."

caravel .

(1843) Prescott Mexico (1850) I. 221 "The vessel..in which Cortes himself went, was of a hundred tons' burden..the remainder were caravels and open brigantines. "

carbon , [sb.]

(1794) G. Adams Nat. &. Exp. Philos. I. xii. 496 "Their carbonne is supposed to be the remaining part of charcoal after it has been divested of earth and fixed salts. "

carbonated , [a.]

(1887) Pall Mall G. 16 Dec. 11/1 "To separate the carbonated lead from what remains of the metallic."

carcass carcase , [sb.]

(1637) Heywood Royal Ship 3 "In the very Apex and top thereof [Mt Ararat], there is still to be discerned a blacke Shadow, resembling a Darke Cloud..by the Natives..held, to be the still remaining carkasse of the Arke of Noah. "

career , [sb.]

(1936) Yale Rev. XXV. 288 "Other steps essential to a well-rounded career service remain to be taken... The prospect of permanent undersecretaryships for career men needs to be realized. "

care-taker

(1885) J. Chamberlain in Cobden Club Dinner, Special Rep. 11 "It is only upon those terms that what will be known in history as the `Stop-gap' Government can invite the toleration of its opponents... I see no reason why they should not remain as caretakers on the premises-(great laughter and cheering)-until the new tenants are ready in November for a prolonged..occupation. "

carnival .

(1739) Gray Let. to West 16 Nov., "This Carnival lasts only from Christmas to Lent; one half of the remaining part of the year is past in remembering the last, the other in expecting the future Carnival. "

carried , [ppl. a.]

(1844) Regul. &. Ord. Army 265 "Remain with their arms carried."

carrier .

(1955) Gaiger &. Davies Vet. Path. &. Bacteriol. (ed. 4) vii. 152 "Convalescent animals are often carriers... In some diseases..the carrier state may remain for years and the animal becomes a danger to other susceptible animals."

carrion , [sb.] (and [a.] )

(1860) Pusey Min. Proph. 454 "The carrion-remains should be entombed only in the bowels of vultures and dogs."

carry , [v.]

Mod. "The remaining clauses were carried unanimously."

(1833) Instr. &. Reg. Cavalry i. 60 "The men remain at `Carry Swords', till ordered to `Slope'. "

carvy .

(1820) Blackw. Mag. Oct. 14 (Jam.) "She had preserved, since the great tea-drinking..the remainder of the two ounces of carvey, bought for that memorable occasion."

case , [sb. 2]

(1953) tr. F. C. Gerretson's Hist. R. Dutch I. v. 226 "In order to sell the remaining supplies of Russian case oil, the cases had to be removed first."

cash , [sb. 1]

(1984) Financial Times 2 June i. 4 "Charges for cashpoint withdrawals and direct debits will remain at 20p."

(1911) A. E. Sprague Treat. Insurance Companies' Accounts iii. 26 "The cash value of bonuses surrendered when the policy itself remains in force. "

casse (2) .

(1883) J. Gardner Brewer, Distiller 226 "If the breakage, or casse, as it is termed, has not exceeded 7 or 8 per cent. by the time August is reached, he..lets the wine remain. "

cast , [sb.]

(1646) Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 149 "After the first cast, there remaine successive conceptions."

casting , [vbl. sb.]

(1874) Wood Nat. Hist. 282 "In the `castings' of this species have been found the remains of mice. "

Castor (6) .

(1828) E. T. Artis Durobrivae of Antoninus Pl. 48 "Fine red Ware in relief, collected in excavating the remains of a Roman Pottery in the parish of Castor. "

castrensian , [a.]

(1807) G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 125 "No castrensian remains. "

castrum .

(1850) C. R. Smith Antiq. Richborough 31 "The remains of the castrum at Richborough. "

cat , [sb. 1]

(1669) Worlidge Syst. Agric. ix. §.2 (1681) 177 "A Salt-Cat..which makes the Pigeons much affect the place: and such that casually come there, usually remain where they find such good entertainment."

catafalque , catafalco

(1834) Gentl. Mag. CIV. i. 104 "A rich catafalque was erected in the centre, in which the remains of the Marshal were deposited during the service."

catastrophist .

(1879) Spencer Data of Ethics iv. §.17 "For a generation after geologists had become uniformitarians in Geology, they remained catastrophists in Biology. "

catching , [vbl. sb.]

(1894) A. Robertson Nuggets 4 "He dashed into the catching pen, and seized the smaller of two sheep that remained. "

catoche .

(1707) Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 129 "The Pulse in the Catoche remain'd entire."

cattle , [sb.]

(1960) Farmer &. Stockbreeder 9 Feb. 98/1 "The three small cattle-yards which house the remaining 300 hogs."

caulinar [a.]

(1870) Bentley Bot. 171 "When they remain as little leaflets on each side of the base of the petiole, but quite distinct from it, they are called caulinary."

caution , [sb.]

(1876) Grant Burgh Sch. Scotl. ii. iii. 132 "To remain in ward until he find caution not to contravene the act of council."

cave , [sb. 1]

(1865) Lubbock Preh. Times 237 "The remains of the *cave-bear are abundant in Central Europe. "

cedent , [a.] and [sb.]

(1592) Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §.145 "The cedent remainis Rebelle and at the Horne. "

ceiling cieling , [vbl. sb.]

(1627) Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 13 "There remaines nothing..but onely seeling the Cabins. "

celt (2) .

(1878) W. H. Dall Later Preh. Man 8 "A skeleton interred in the earth, together with the remains of a small iron celt."

centre center , [sb.] and [a.]

(1868) Holme Lee B. Godfrey xxxvi. 195 "He..remained standing by the centre-table. "

centre center , [v.]

(1719) W. Wood Surv. Trade 144 "We have a Balance..to the value of 1,750,000l. which centers and remains among us."

centry [sb.]

(A. 1834) Coleridge Lit. Rem. I. 342 "Centries..put under the arches of a bridge, to remain no longer than until the latter are consolidated."

ceratodus .

(1899) Daily News 10 Apr. 8/2 "The ceratodus, a fish with lungs, which, though its fossil remains are scattered over the world, is now confined to two rivers in the south of Queensland, the Mary and the Burnett."

ceremony .

(1770) Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 161/2 "The vestals remained a considerable time at C&ae.re..and hence those rites were called Ceremonies. "

ceroso-

(1879) Watts Dict. Chem., 3rd Supp. 421 "The brown-red hexagonal [sulphur] salt remains also a ceroso-ceric salt according to the new atomic weight."

certify , [v.]

(1829) Southey in For. Rev. &. Cont. Misc. III. 49 "Those for whom the priests would certify might remain. "

cetacean , [a.] and [sb.]

(1851) D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. ii. 49 "The cetacean remains lay above the highest tide level."

ceteosaur .

(1872) Carpenter in Gd. Words 700 "In..[the great Oolitic formation] we have remains of gigantic Reptiles (such as the Cetiosaurus). "

chagrin , [sb.]

(A. 1744) Pope Letters (L.), "I grieve with the old, for so many additional inconveniences and chagrins, more than their small remain of life seemed destined to undergo. "

chain , [sb.]

(1802) Med. Jrn. VIII. 318 "These phenomena, however, only take place the moment the Galvanic chain is shut, or when it is suffered to remain shut..If the opposite action, occasioned at the moment the chain is separated, had entirely supplanted..the former."

chair , [sb. 1]

(1751) Chambers Cycl. s.v. Chain, "A gold chain..remains to the person after his being divested of that magistrature, as a mark that he has passed the Chair. "

chalk , [sb.]

(1880) Geikie Phys. Geog. iv. 191 "Chalk..is formed of the broken remains of minute forms of marine animal life."

chamber , [sb.]

(1711) Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 695 "There was remaining in the chamber of London of the charity mony gathered for them upwards of 2000&pstlg.. "

champion , [sb. 1]

(C. 1742) J. Love Cricket iii. 106 "The last two Champions even now are in, And but three Notches yet remain to win. "

chaos .

(1531) Elyot Gov. (1875) 3 "Take awaie Ordre frome all thinges, what shulde than remaine? Certes nothing finally, except some man wold imagine eftesoones, Chaos, whiche of some is expounded, a confuse mixture. "

(1647) Clarendon Hist. Reb. iii. (1843) 74/1 "The whole mass of their designs, as well what remained in Chaos as what was Formed. "

chapel , [sb.]

(1874) Baring-Gould Lives of Saints 395 "Upon these remains Benedict built two oratories..and..round these chapels rose the monastery. "

(1789) Wesley Will. 25 Feb. in Coke &. Moore (1792) 515, "I desire my Gowns, Cassocks, Sashes, and Bands, may remain at the Chapel for the use of the Clergymen attending there. "

chapelle ardente .

(1824) J. Mackintosh Jrnl. 28 Sept. in R. J. Mackintosh Life (1835) II. 415 "Went to see the `Chapelle Ardente' at St. Denis, where the king's remains lie in state. "

charcoal , [sb.]

(1863) Watts Dict. Chem. I. 759 "If the supply of air is limited, only the more volatile ingredients [of wood] burn away, and the greater part of the carbon remains behind. This is the principle of the process of *charcoal-burning. "

charge , [v.]

(1854) Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xxxv. 655 "The frigate charged with the mortal remains of Napoleon."

charger (2)

(1887) Pall Mall G. 14 Oct. 6/2 "As long as he remained a charger on the estate."

charity .

(1711) Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 695 "There was remaining..of the *charity money gathered..upwards of 2000&pstlg.. "

charterless [a.]

Mod. "The borough forfeited its charter, and still remains charterless."

chasmogamy .

(1906) J. R. A. Davis tr. Knuth's Handbk. Flower Pollination I. 55 "The otherwise normally opening chasmogamous flowers remain closed. "

chattel .

(1767) Blackstone Comm. II. 173 "That by this means a remainder may be limited of a chattel interest, after a particular estate for life created in the same. "

chatterbox

(1876) Hardy Hand of Ethelb. I. 41 "One of those hostile days..when chatterbox ladies remain miserably in their homes. "

check , [v. 1]

(1774-82) Barclay Dict. "Check vb...in Commerce, to compare the flourished or ornamented part of a draught or bank-bill with that which remains in the book from whence it was cut. "

cheese , [sb. 1]

(1835) N. P. Willis Pencillings II. xxiv. 283 "They remained in dirty white tunics reaching to the floor, and very full at the bottom, so that with the regular motion of their whirl the wind blew them out into a circle, like what the girls in our country call `making cheeses'."

cheeseling

(1787) W. Marshall Norfolk II. 224 "Supposing the cheeseling to be made in the morning, it now remains in the press, untouched, until the evening."

Chelleo- .

(1935) Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Feb. 84/2 "Human remains and objects belonging to a Chelleo-Acheulean complex were found."

Cherokee , [sb.] and [a.]

(1721) in N. Carolina Col. Rec. 422 "The remaining 3800 Indians are the Cherokees. "

chieftain .

(1772) Pennant Tours Scotl. (1774) 207 "The islands still remained governed by powerful chieftains. "

chin , [sb. 1]

(1579) Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 222/1 "Yet they remaine vnpunnished, yea they are holden vp by the chinne to harden them in their wickednesse. "

chip , [sb. 1]

(1874) Knight Dict. Mech. s.v., "The chip is loaded at the circular edge so as to float upright, about two thirds being immersed in water..The chip or log being thrown overboard catches in the water and remains about stationary there, while the cord unwinds as the vessel proceeds."

chip , [v. 1]

(1891) L. Hoffmann Cycl. Card &. Table Games 203 "Each person puts up an agreed amount by way of ante... To avoid dispute as to whose turn it may be, a pocket-knife, known as the `buck', is passed round, resting with the player whose turn it is to `chip' for the remainder. "

chirograph .

(1681) Lond. Gaz. No. 1633/4 "Notice, that whereas divers Fines that were lost or burnt in the late Fire in the Temple, remain uningrossed for want of bringing in the Chyrograps, or exemplifications thereof. "

chisel , [sb. 1]

(1908) Animal Managem. 241 "The `*chisel' head or sharp portion [of the frost nail] to remain above the [horse-]shoe. "

choir quire , [sb.]

(1879) Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. II. 29 "Here..we have still remaining the *choir-crypt. "

choose , [v.]

(1768) Goldsm. Good-n. Man iv. i, "He chuses to remain concealed. "

chopping , [vbl. sb. 2]

(1810) Southey Lett. in Life III. xvi. 275, "I have no hope from chopping and changing while the materials must remain the same."

Chordata , [sb. pl.]

(1906) Chamberlin &. Salisbury Geol. II. 484 "While perhaps they should remain under the broad mantle of the term Chordata, they must apparently be removed from the true vertebrates to a new class. "

Christmas , [sb.]

(1889) Cent. Dict., "Christmas fern, Aspidium acrostichoides, a fern having simply pinnate fronds of firm texture, which remain green through the winter. "

chromatid .

(1900) C. E. McClung in Kansas Univ. Q. A. IX. 78 "The term `chromosome' being..restricted to the units of the division figures, there remains no name for the parts composing these when they are compound, as in tetrads and diads... I should like, therefore, to propose the term `chromatid' for each of these. "

chromophil , [a.]

(1902) Delafield &. Prudden Path. Anat. &. Histol. (ed. 6) iii. xiv. 731 "With the use of the ordinary technique of Nissl, all of the cell body, excepting the chromophilic bodies, remains unstained and apparently structureless. "

chrysalid .

(1802-13) Bingley Anim. Biog. (ed. 4) I. 44 "In their chrysalid state they remain for some time..perfectly inanimate. "

chum , [sb. 2]

(1858) Rep. Maine Board Agric. 1857 II. 69 "The fish known as menhaden, and often called..`poggies', are..pressed..to extract an oil..; what remains after extracting the oil, is called `poggy chum'. "

church , [sb.]

(1954) Pei Dict. Linguistics 39 "Church Slavonic, the South Slavic language into which Kyrillos and Methodos translated the Gospels in the ninth century A.D.; it is extinct as a vernacular, but has remained the official language of the Slavic Greek Orthodox Church. (Also called Old Church Slavic and Old Bulgarian.)"

church-land

(1807) Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 84 "Enabling the widow of the last surviving tenant to the church&dubh.lands in possession, to hold over the estate so long as she remained unmarried."

churn-milk .

(1598) Hakluyt Voy. I. 97 "The churnmilke which remaineth of the butter. "

cicatrix .

(1826) Good Bk. Nat. (1834) I. 166 "The hilum or eye..is a cicatrix or umbilicus remaining after the separation of the umbilical cord from the pericarp. "

cinder , [sb.]

(1577) tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 236 "He would not haue so much as the very cinders to remaine of so wicked men. "

cindery , [sb.]

(1863) Sala Capt. Dangerous I. viii. 220, "I remained under charge of Ciceley of the Cindery."

cineritious , [a.]

(1803) G. S. Faber Cabiri II. 389 "No cineritious remains are visible..and..there are no marks of cremation in the cave. "

cippus .

(1860) B'ness Bunsen in Hare Life II. v. 271 "The inscription on the cippus placed over the remains of the two children."

circumduction .

(1656) tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 6 "The figure was made by the circumduction of a body whereof one end remained unmoved. "

circumpolar , [a.]

(1853) Sir J. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sc. iii. (1873) 133 "The comet remained long..visible as a circumpolar object. "

circumscriptive , [a.]

(1691) E. Taylor Behmen's Theos. Philos. xxii. 36 "That flesh (though now glorified) remains a Circumscriptive Creature. "

circus .

(1771) Smollett Humph. Cl. III. 30 Sept., "Nothing remains but a naked circus of loose sand. "

cirriform , [a.]

(1815) T. Forster Res. Atmosph. Phenom. i. §.5. 15 "Of the cloud..the other part remains cirriform. "

citadel .

(1839) Thirlwall Greece I. 363 "To collect all the remaining strength of Messenia in a mountain citadel. "

citation .

(1666) G. Harvey Morb. Angl. xxviii. (1672) 82 "There remains a citation of such others as indifferently may produce that malady in any other Countrey."

cityless , [a.]

(1610) Holland Camden's Brit. ii. Irel. 86 "In steed of a city it is altogether as one saith po&acu.lij a&lenis.&acu.polij that is A City Citylesse, or The remains of that which was a city."

civilianization .

(1956) Rep. Employment Nat. Service Men 15 "The word `civilianization'..may mean the increased use of civilians in establishments which must remain partly military. It may also mean handing over to civilian management whole operations and thereby dispensing with military personnel altogether."

Civil List

(1855) Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 558 "The expenses of the royal household are now entirely separated from the expenses of the civil government; but by a whimsical perversion, the name of Civil List has remained attached to..the revenue..appropriated to the expenses of the Royal Household."

cladogenesis .

(1959) New Statesman 7 Nov. 632/3 "Man is the only successful biological species which has remained as a single interbreeding group, not radiating out in `cladogenesis' into thousands of mutually infertile species."

Clapham .

(1965) Listener 1 Apr. 474/1 "The class character of our education will remain until..the scions of Lord Snow and the man on the Clapham omnibus attend the same comprehensive school."

clarence .

(1864) Social Sc. Rev. 403 "Four-wheeled Clarence Cabs, seated for four passengers within and one in addition to the driver without, have long remained without any material alteration."

clasp , [v.]

(1597) Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. §.22 (J.) "Sermons are the keys..and do open the scriptures; which being but read, remain, in comparison, still clasped. "

(1875) Darwin Insectiv. Pl. vi. 87 "After the tentacles have remained closely clasped over any object. "

classmate

(1875) Longfellow Morituri Salutamus 106 "And now my class-mates; ye remaining few That number not the half of those we knew. "

clause , [sb.]

(1700) Tyrell Hist. Eng. II. 837 "These Letters..remain upon Record in the Tower on the Clause Roll of this Year."

claustrophobia .

(1906) Westm. Gaz. 18 Apr. 2/1 "Others of us who have felt..an inexplicable horror of remaining within four walls..now know that we are sufferers from Claustrophobia. "

clay , [v.]

(1822) Imison Sc. &. Art II. 127 "Clay is put upon the tops of the conical pots in which the sugar has granulated, which allows water to percolate through, and thus drain off the last remains of the molasses. This is called claying the sugars. "

clear , [a.] , [adv.] , and [sb.]

(1774) Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 278 "Their remains continue still visible at the bottom of the water in a clear day. "

clear , [v.]

(1796) Stedman Surinam (1813) II. xxix. 407 "On the 18th the troops were finally cleared with, and paid their remaining arrears (cf. clearings)."

Clearing House clearing-house

(1904) J. Chamberlain Speech 19 Jan. (Oxf. Dict. Quots., ed. 2), "Provided that the City of London remains as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world. "

cloacal , [a.]

(1879) tr. Haeckel's Evol. Man II. xix. 146 "The brain of the Cloacal Animals has remained at a much lower stage of development."

cloister , [sb.]

(1756) Nugent Gr. Tour, Germany II. 98 "There are several cloysters remaining in this city, which are now secularized."

clone , [sb.]

(1929) Bibliographia Genetica V. 234 "In Bacillus coli communis...a biotype was also found having lower motility than the remainder of the clone from which it came. "

close , [a.] and [adv.]

(1597) Daniel Civ. Wares iii. xx, "That Richard should remain for evermore, close-prisoner. "

(1718) Freethinker No. 101. 327, "I shall endeavour at a close Translation of the Remainder. "

clothing , [vbl. sb.]

(1943) Times 4 Aug. 2/4 "All the coupons in the current 1942-43 clothing book would remain valid at least until the end of 1943. "

clotting , [vbl. sb.]

(1834) Brit. Husb. I. 314 "Any large lumps remaining..should be broken with mallets, or clotting-beetles."

cloud , [sb.]

(1862) Ruskin Munera P. (1880) 27 "The science of Political Economy would remain..the weighing of clouds, and the portioning out of shadows."

clouded , [ppl. a.]

(1641) Milton Ch. Discip. i. (1851) 29 "There be..some places in those Books that remain clouded. "

cloven , [ppl. a.]

(1610) Shaks. Temp. i. ii. 277 "She did confine thee..Into a clouen Pyne, within which rift Imprison'd, thou didst painefully remaine. "

club , [sb.]

(1886) Pall Mall G. 4 Oct. 6/1 "Clubland proper is still and will remain pretty much what it was in the days of Major Pendennis. "

club-man .

(1645) in Rushw. Hist. Coll. I. 52 "Two captains of the Club-men (as they were called) being a great number of the inhabitants of several parts of Wiltshire, and some counties adjacent, who gathered themselves together, alledging they did but stand on their own defence, to prevent Plundering; and that they would in that posture remain Neuters until the King and his Parliament should agree. "

clue [v.]

(1967) Listener 22 June 835/1 "The remaining lights are clued normally. "

clyssus clissus

(1826) Henry Elem. Chem. I. 540 "Nitrate of potassa is rapidly decomposed by charcoal at a high temperature..The products of this combustion..are carbonic acid and nitrogen gases. Part of the carbonic acid also remains attached to the residuary alkali, and may be obtained from it on adding a stronger acid. This residue was termed, by the old chemists, clyssus of nitre."

cnida .

(1887) Rolleston &. Jackson Forms Anim. Life 331 "The nematocysts are removed from the cells or cnidoblasts in which they were developed, and where they usually remain until discharged. "

co-adjust , [v.]

(1863) Huxley Man's Place Nat. iii. 125 "The lines of fracture which remain between the coadjusted pieces of the skull. "

coagulum .

(1813) J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 216 "Is the coagulum ever absorbed while the serum remains unabsorbed? "

coal , [sb.]

(1667) Primatt City &. C. Build. 26 "There doth yet remain great quantities of Coles in the Earth. "

(1801) T. Thomson Chem. II. 363 " When tannin is distilled..there comes over also some empyreumatic oil, and a voluminous coal remains behind. "

coalification .

(1911) Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. L. 62 "Adjacent rocks, containing plant remains, may have contributed to this coalification by means of circulating waters. "

coarctate , [a.]

(1882) Syd. Soc. Lex. s.v., "The retina is said to be coarctate when, owing to the accumulation of fluid between it and the choroid, it assumes the form of a funnel, extending from the entrance of the optic nerve to the margin, or to the remains of the lens."

(1816) Kirby &. Sp. Entomol. (1843) I. 53 "Pup&ae. which are not excluded from the skin of the larva, but remain concealed under it, and were hence called by Linn&eacu. coarctate pup&ae.. "

coast , [sb.]

(1594) Plat Diuerse New Sorts of Soyle 59 "The Coast-men..doo also bestow that which remaineth of the pilchardes upon their leane and hungrey grounds. "

coasting , [vbl. sb.]

(1836) Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. iv. 63 "The master of one of the canoes offered to remain on board as coasting pilot."

cob , [sb. 1]

(1599) Nashe Lenten Stuffe 59 "Not a scrap..but the cobs of the two herrings the fisherman had eaten remained of him. "

cockspur

(1710) London &. Wise Compl. Gard. (1719) 136 "The Cock spur, or dry dead parts of Branches that remain where a Branch was shorten'd above the next Eye or Shoot. "

coetaneous , [a.]

(1836) Landor Peric. &. Asp. Wks. 1846 II. 435 "Little of life is remaining, but my happiness will be coetaneous with it."

cog , [sb. 2]

(1951) S. Spender World within World iv. 201 "Franz was incapable of becoming a cog in a political machine, and he remained profoundly human. "

cognoscible , [a.]

(1648) H. G. tr. Balzac's Prince 176 "There remaines nothing..cognoscible in Germany, but the Sea and the Mountaines. "

coherence .

(1692) Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 226 "By a secret relation, and I know not what coh&ae.rence which still remains between their souls and others. "

coil , [sb. 3]

(1677) Lond. Gaz. No. 1174/1 "Remaining in the Consuls hands 18 Quoyles of Cordage and a Hauser. "

co-inheritor

(1636) Brathwait Lives Rom. Emperors 280 "Hee remained coinheritor with his brother Carolus of the Crowne of France. "

coistrel

Holinshed Hist. Scotl. (1586) II. 89 "Such coisterels and other as remained with the Scotish cariage, seeing the discomfiture of their aduersaries, ran foorth and pursued them into those marishes. "

coke , [sb. 1]

(1862) Chambers's Encycl. IV. 645/1 "There remains..a large residue of pitch, which is again distilled.., giving off an oil called coke-oil. "

colander cullender .

(1603) Holland Plutarch's Mor. 223 (R.) "Many men do let their fortunes run (as it were through a colander or strainer, wherein the worst stick and remaine in the way behind, whiles the better do passe and run out. "

collective , [a.] ( [sb.] )

(1949) Koestler Insight &. Outlook xiii. 192 "The `collective unconscious' as a kind of common pool or substratum with which all individuals remain somehow connected. "

collegially , [adv.]

(1637) Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. viii. 192 "Which power of Iurisdiction..remaineth..both in the Bishop, and in the Presbytery, in him personally, in it collegially. "

collenchyma .

(1866) Treas. Bot., "Collenchyma..usually absorbed, but remaining and assuming a definite form in some plants, as in orchids."

colloid , [a.] and [sb.]

(1861) T. Graham in Phil. Trans. (1862) 184 note, "Certain liquid colloid substances are capable of forming a jelly and yet still remain liquefiable by heat and soluble in water. Such is gelatine itself. "

collop (1) .

(1570) Levins Manip. 149/35 "A collip, cremium [Cremium, what remains dry in the pan after frying anything, rendering of suet or the like (Du Cange).]"

colluvies .

(1651) Biggs New Disp. 73 "The aforesaid Colluvies of the remaining humours. "

colocynth .

(1863-72) Watts Dict. Chem. s.v. Colocynthitin, "[When] the alcoholic extract of bitter apple..is treated with water, colocynthitin remains undissolved..It is soluble in ether."

co-logarithm

(1881) Wentworth Algebra xix. 266 "The remainder obtained by subtracting the logarithm of a number from 10 is called the cologarithm of the number, or arithmetical complement of the logarithm of the number."

colonialize , [v.]

(1864) Eliz. Murray E. Norman I. 190 "If you remain here, in a few years you will be colonialized."

colonist .

(1856) Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. viii. 243 "The Roman military colonists remained Roman alike on the Rhine and on the Euphrates. "

colony , [sb.]

(1600) Holland Livy 147 (R.) "When they had registered and placed the coloners, they remained still themselves in the same colonie. "

(1883) Seeley Expans. Eng. 38 "By a colony we understand a community which is not merely derivative, but which remains politically connected in a relation of dependence with the parent community."

colophony .

(1831) J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 194 "Colophony or Dry Resin..is the resinous part of the turpentine remaining in the still after the extraction of the essential oil by distillation. "

colour color , [sb. 1]

(1869) Tyndall Notes on Light 40 "Colour is due to the extinction of certain constituents of the white light within the body, the remaining constituents which return to the eye imparting to the body its colour. "

colt , [sb. 1]

(1607) Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 435 "If they [Asses] do not breed..before the casting of their Colts-teeth, they remain steril..all their life. "

columbaceous , [a.]

(1872) Nicholson Pal&ae.ont. ii. 263 "In the Miocene period occur the remains of Gallinaceous and Columbaceous birds."

columbarium .

(1923) Harmsworth Househ. Encycl. II. 993/3 "Columbarium. This word is used..for the building in which the urns containing the remains of cremated persons are placed. "

(1948) E. Waugh Loved One 15 "Would you require a niche in our columbarium or do you prefer to keep the remains at home? "

Comacine , [a.] and [sb.]

(1899) L. Scott Cathedral Builders 9 "Rome is..full of remains of what is now styled Comacine architecture. "

Combe-Capelle .

(1959) Chambers's Encycl. IX. 40/2 (heading) "The Combe Capelle Man. In 1909 Hauser..unearthed a skeleton in the rock-shelter of Combe Capelle..at the very base of a deposit containing Aurignacian implements... The remains are generally agreed to belong to the Cromagnon type,..though differing in some notable respects."

come , [v.]

(1915) C. G. Grey Tales Flying Services 35 "One of them [sc. seaplanes]..had just alighted astern, and was `taxying' along to pick up her own boom when somehow the last remaining bomb `came unput'-as one who was present said-and fell into the water. "

(1928) Daily Express 12 July 12/7 "Duncan remains a master of the art of `coming back'. "

commemorate , [v.]

(1875) Lyell Princ. Geol. I. i. xiv. 315 "The commemorating processes, by which organic remains become fossilized."

commemoration .

(1886) Morley Geo. Eliot Crit. Misc. III. 94 "If George Eliot had insisted that her works should remain the only commemoration of her life."

commissary .

(1832) tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. xvi. 345 "He had been named commissary general, with unlimited power over all that remained without the capital."

commit , [v.]

(1749) Smollett Regicide v. vii, "To the cold grave commit my pale remains! "

commodely [adv.]

(1749) H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) II. 267 "You found the whole garden..spread with tents which remained all night very commodely. "

common , [a.]

(1827) Hutton Course Math. I. 53 "The Common Measure of two or more numbers, is that..which will divide them all without remainder. "

common law

(1810) Bentham Packing (1821) 154 "The great body of the law, remaining..in the shapeless state, of common, alias unwritten, law. "

communicant , [sb.] and [a.]

(1557) Recorde Whetst. L iij b, "If the remainer, and the roote in the quotiente, bee nombers communicante, diuide them so. "

communicate , [v.]

(1850) Prescott Peru II. 298 "He..put in at one of the Azores, where he remained until he could communicate with home. "

commutator .

(1959) Which? Aug. 86/2 "Eleven machines had induction motors... The remaining 15 machines had commutator motors."

comparative , [a.] ( [sb.] ).

(1855) Owen Skel. &. Teeth 296 "The species restored by Cuvier from fossil remains..The great comparative anatomist called it anoplotherium. "

compart [sb.]

(A. 1694) J. Scott Pract. Disc. xxii. (T.), "And yet remain unseparable, as being comparts of the same substance. "

compassionate , [a.]

(1692) R. L'Estrange Josephus' Antiq. iv. viii. (1733) 94 "Let there be a compassionate Remainder left for those that have nothing to eat of their own."

compensation .

(1964) V. J. Chapman Coastal Veget. iii. 65 "Changes of temperature can affect both photosynthesis and respiration. The point at which these two processes exactly balance, and where oxygen content remains stable, is called the compensation point. "

(1956) J. N. Wood in D. L. Linton Sheffield 74 "The remaining six impounding reservoirs provide 16&rdot.4 m.g.d. compensation water which, by statute, is required to be delivered into the streams on which the supply reservoirs have been constructed."

complement , [sb.]

(1697) Dampier Voy. (1698) I. xi. 318 "They will sell 10 or 15 Tuns out of 100, and yet seemingly carry their complement [of Cloves] to Batavia; for they will pour water among the remaining part of their Cargo. "

(1708) Kersey, "Complement of the Courtin..the Remainder of the Courtin after its Flank is taken away. Complement of the Line of Defence, is the Remainder of the Line of Defence, after you have taken away the Angle of the Flank. "

compose , [v.]

(1878) Tennyson Q. Mary i. v. 37 "It then remains..to compose the event [Mary's marriage] In some such form as least may harm your Grace."

(1877) Lady Brassey Voy. Sunbeam xxi, "The children..composed themselves in the deck-house to sleep for the remainder of the night."

compound , [v.]

(1928) Observer 17 June 28/6 "Once in the line for home, Goose Kiss did not remain at the head of affairs, for he compounded rapidly."

compound , [sb. 1]

(1594) Blundevil Exerc. i. vii. (ed. 7) 25 "Such numbers as may be evenly divided by another number without leaving any remainder, are called Compounds."

compound , [sb. 2]

(1893) T. Cook Mission Tour 25 "The men sign articles to remain in these compounds for a certain period, usually six months, and are not allowed to leave for any cause until the time has expired. "

compression .

(1816) T. Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 280 "That nation is too high-minded..to remain quiet under its present compression. "

compromission

(1885) Athen&ae.um 28 Mar. 403/3 "Election..by compromission, wherein certain delegates or proctors, being chosen by the chapter, retired to nominate, the remainder of the chapter continuing in prayer and pledged to accept the nomination of the delegates."

conceivable , [a.]

(1646) Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxi. 157 "That he remained ignorant of this account it is not easily conceivable. "

concept , [sb.]

(1837-8) Sir W. Hamilton Logic viii. (1859) I. 134 "The concept horse..cannot, if it remain a concept, that is a universal attribution, be represented in imagination. "

concerted , [ppl. a.]

(1897) Marquis of Salisbury in Times 16 Feb. 8/1 "The concerted sympathy of the Powers remains complete. "

conch .

(1875) Circular No. 8, War Dept. 1 May 144 "The white Americans form a comparatively small proportion of the population of Key West, the remainder being Bahama negroes, Cuban refugees, and white natives of the Bahamas and their descendants, classified here under the general title of Conchs. "

conciliator .

(1878) Dowden Stud. Lit. 437 "He remained..a conciliator among conflicting parties. "

conclavist .

(1616) Brent tr. Sarpi's Hist. Counc. Trent (1676) 518 "The Pope, considering that the Conclavists of account remain at Rome. "

concreted , [ppl. a.]

(1646) Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 91 "In many concreted plants some parts remaine unpetrified. "

concupiscible , [a.]

(1594) Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xiv. (1596) 250 "Our first parents..lost this qualitie, and the irascible and concupiscible remained. "

concurrence .

(1656) tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 184 "Two strait lines, which are applied to one another..may be separated..in such manner, that their concurrence in one point will still remain. "

(1866) Lecky Ration. II. 380 "To reduce, by increased concurrence, the wages of the remainder. "

condense , [v.]

(1800) tr. Lagrange's Chem. I. 89 "Carbonic acid gas..is not condensed at that degree of pressure and of temperature of the atmosphere in which we live. It remains in the state of gas. "

condensing [ppl. a.]

(1824) R. Stuart Hist. Steam Engine, "The power of the condensing Engine is..known by ascertaining the temperature of the steam, which moves the piston, the area of the piston, and the temperature of the vapour which remains. "

conditioning , [vbl. sb.]

(1884) Manch. Exam. 21 Mar. 4/5 "A report from the Milan silk market states that the conditioning returns remain very high. "

condonation .

(1625) Bp. Mountagu App. C&ae.sar vi. 169 "The blot..of sin..remaining in the soule of man, in like manner as it did before condonation. "

confession .

(1861) Stanley East. Ch. iv. (1869) 149 "The Nicene Creed remained the one public confession. "

confider .

(1858) Miss Mulock Th. ab. Women 185 "We can keep a secret..while the confider remains our friend."

confirmation .

(1818) Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 87 "All leases made by tenants for life become absolutely void by their death; so that no..act, by the persons entitled to the remainder or reversion, will operate as a confirmation of them. "

conformational , [a.]

(1978) Nature 14 Sept. 160/2 "Taking into account the conformational flexibility about the phosphodiester bonds and the possible variations in the remaining torsion angles, the conformational features of regular helical polynucleotide were analysed. "

confound , [v.]

(1863) Lyell Antiq. Man 2 "The remains..may have subsequently been mingled..and confounded together in one and the same deposit."

confusedly , [adv.]

(1632) Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 89 "Yet remain'd shee..confusedly disquieted. "

congeal , [v.]

(1845) Darwin Voy. Nat. v. (1879) 88 " The ground at the depth of a few feet remains perpetually congealed. "

(1853) Lyell Princ. Geol. vi. (ed. 9) 80 "The carcass of a rhinoceros..taken from the sand in which it must have remained congealed for ages."

congenious [a.]

(1630) Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 364 "In the blood thus drop'd there remains a spirit of life congenius to that in the body. "

congregation .

(1559) National Covt. in Knox Hist. Ref. ii. 313 "Item the sayd Lords of the congregation and all the members therof shall remaine obedient subiects to our soueraigne Lord and Ladies authoritie. Item the said congregation nor none of them shall not trouble or molest a Church-man. "

congruent , [a.]

(1889) Chrystal Algebra, "If m be any positive integer whatever, which we call the modulus, two integers, M and N, which leave the same remainder when divided by m, are said to be congruent with respect to the modulus m."

coning , [vbl. sb.]

(1931) J. de la Cierva Wings of Tomorrow vii. 102, "I supposed that it was preferable to keep the blades from coning, so that they would remain in a horizontal position while in flight. "

conjecture , [v.]

(1718) Lady M. W. Montague Lett. II. xlix. 57, "I conjecture them to be the remains of that city. "

conjugate , [a.] and [sb.]

(1882) Everett Deschanel's Nat. Philos. §.758 "When this condition is fulfilled, the remaining pair of opposite branches are conjugate, that is to say, a battery in one produces no current in the other. "

(1882) Everett Deschanel's Nat. Philos. §.759 "When there is equality between the two products of opposite resistances..the current in either of the two remaining branches will be independent of the electro-motive force of the battery in the other; and these two branches are still said to be conjugate."

conjuncture .

(1605) Verstegan Dec. Intell. iv. (1636) 100 "This coniuncture to haue remained for some space after the great and generall deluge. "

connexion connection .

(1757) J. Wesley Jrnl. 1 Aug. II. 421, "I did not dare to remain in their connexion. "

(1769) J. Wesley Addr. Trav. Preachers, 4 Aug. Wks. 1872 XIII. 242 "Those who aim at anything but the glory of God..will not, cannot remain in the Connexion. "

(1789) J. Wesley Will, "Lastly, I give to each of those travelling Preachers who shall remain in the Connexion six months after my decease..the eight volumes of sermons. "

conqueror .

(1839) Thirlwall Greece VII. 367 "After the battle, it remained for the conquerors to divide the spoil. "

(1884) R. Holland Gloss. Chester 78 "Conquerors, a game played with horse-chestnuts threaded on a string... The chestnut which remains unhurt is then `conqueror of one'. "

conquest , [sb.]

(1874) Green Short Hist. v. 224 "His new conquest of Calais remained a part of the possessions of the English crown."

consecration .

(1659) Pearson Creed (1839) 232 "The bread and wine even after consecration leave not their own nature, but remain in their former substance, shape, and form. "

conservative , [a.] and [sb.]

(1845) Disraeli Speech 17 Mar., "For me there remains this at least-the opportunity of expressing thus publicly my belief that a Conservative Government is an Organized Hypocrisy. "

consideration .

(1652) Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 16 "It remains that [the Law]..of Dominion or Ownership bee taken into consideration. "

consign , [v.]

(1861) W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 221 "In practice, it is usual to consign money in a public bank, so that the party entitled to it receives it with bank interest for the time it has remained consigned. "

consisting , [ppl. a.]

(1626) Bacon Sylva §.31 "Flame doth not mingle with Flame..but only remaineth contiguous; As it commeth to passe betwixt Consisting Bodies. "

consolate , [ppl. a.]

(1818) T. L. Peacock Nightm. Abbey 4 "One morning..`he woke and found his lady dead', and remained a very consolate widower [With humorous reference to disconsolate]."

constant , [a.] ( [sb.] )

(1702) Pope Jan. &. May 41 "Tho' fortune change, his constant spouse remains. "

(1860) Tyndall Glac. i. i. 1 "This direction remained perfectly constant throughout the entire quarry."

(1753) Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., "The semi-diameter of a circle is a constant quantity; for while the absciss and semi-ordinates increase, it remains the same. "

(1940) Chambers's Techn. Dict. 191/2 "Constant-frequency oscillator, an oscillator in which special precautions are taken to ensure that the frequency remains constant. "

constituency .

(1831) Ann. Reg. 11 "The new constituency being thus formed, the remaining part of the ministerial plan regarded the actual election. "

constitution .

(1681) Nevile Plato Rediv. 139 "Sweden remains in point of Constitution and Property exactly as it did anciently. "

constitutionally , [adv.]

(1767) Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (ed. 4) II. x. 103 "His very senses, though remaining constitutionally the same, revolt. "

constitutive , [a.] and [sb.]

(1968) A. White et al. Princ. Biochem. (ed. 4) 683 "Constitutive enzymes remain at the same level regardless of the amount of potential inducer added to the cell culture. "

constraint , [sb.]

(1712) Pope 1st Ep. to Miss Blount 41 "Still in constraint your suff'ring sex remains, Or bound in formal, or in real chains. "

construction .

(1767) H. Walpole Narr. Rousseau 133 "He changed the construction of the last phrase, though the thought remained exactly the same. "

consume , [v. 1]

(1862) Merivale Rom. Emp. (1871) V. xlii. 138 "To consume the remains in the forum."

content , [a.] ( [sb. 4] )

(1654) Fuller Two Serm. 33 "Not content to carry downe the Remainder of the Captivitie into &Ae.gypt, but also they took Ieremiah the Prophet..along with them. "

contention .

(1666) J. Smith Old Age (1752) 13 "Two words [days and years] to express the contention of this state..viz. how long this state shall remain."

contentless [a. 2]

(1886) Mind XI. 429 "So far the Idea remains contentless."

contestant .

(1861) Times 8 Nov. (Defeat of Federal Army), "A little after six o'clock the remaining contestants withdrew down the precipitous river bank. "

continent , [a.]

(1706) Phillips (ed. Kersey), "Continent Cause of a Distemper, is that on which the Disease depends so immediately, that it continues so long as that remains, and ceases when the said Cause is remov'd. "

continent , [sb.]

(1873) C. Robinson N.S. Wales 79 "Sydney-once the capital of the Australian Continent..remains the metropolis of New South Wales."

contingency .

(1827) Jarman Powell's Devises II. 217 "Where an estate in remainder is limited in terms of contingency, on the happening of certain events. "

(1818) Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) II. v. 84 "All the princes of Hesse or Saxony had reciprocal contingencies of succession, or what our lawyers call cross-remainders, to each other's dominions. "

contingent , [a.] and [sb.]

(1691) T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 123 "Portions of Circles unto which the remaining strait part may be a contingent line. "

(1710) Lond. Gaz. No. 4735/4 "Then to Trustees to preserve the Contingent Remainders. "

(1767) Blackstone Comm. II. 169 "Contingent or executory remainders are where the estate in remainder is limited to take effect, either to a dubious and uncertain person, or upon a dubious and uncertain event; so that the particular estate may chance to be determined, and the remainder never take effect. "

(1844) Williams Real Prop. (1877) 263 " The general opinion appears to be in favour of the antiquity of contingent remainders."

(A. 1711) Ken Hymnarium Poet Wks. 1721 II. 31 "Decreed Contingents they remain, Not link'd in any fatal Chain. "

continuance .

(1754) Edwards Freed. Will ii. vi. 60 "Ideas..don't remain so for any sensible Continuance. "

continuative , [a.] and [sb.]

(1725) Watts Logic ii. ii. §.6 "[Among] the second sort of compound Propositions..may be added continuatives; as, Rome remains to this day; which includes, at least, two propositions, viz. Rome was, and Rome is."

contorniated contourniated [ppl. a.]

(1727-51) Chambers Cycl. s.v., "All we have remaining of these contourniated medals, seem to have been struck about the same time. "

contractural , [a.]

(1971) Jrnl. Bone &. Joint Surg. LIII-a. 992 "Even in contractural arachnodactyly the contractures may remain and even progress. "

contradeciduate , [a.]

(1897) Parker &. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. II. 562 "In the Mole and the Bandicoot not only is there no decidua thrown off, but the f&oe.tal placenta with the distal portion of the allantois does not pass out after the f&oe.tus, but remains, and is broken up or absorbed in the uterus. Such a condition has been termed contra-deciduate."

contrarious , [a.]

(1602) Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 396 "No leisure remained the King for his formall courting of so contrarious a Ladie. "

contrast , [sb.]

(1901) Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. i. 19 "The contrast disc, with an extra 30°. of white or black in its ring, is set up before its appropriate background. The contrast colour is matched upon the second mixer as before. Note that the same grey background must be retained for the second mixer, in order that the contrast relations may remain the same on both discs. "

contributory , [a.] and [sb.]

(1868) Rogers Pol. Econ. xii. (ed. 3) 165 "As the rent of land is that which remains over and above the cost of production, it is paid last, i.e. when all the other contributories are satisfied."

contrition .

(1684) tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vii. 251 "The shivering and great contrition of the bones, which remain here and there in the..flesh."

controversion .

(1684) R. H. Sch. Recreat. 53 "Controversion..in Wheeling is performed by the Front of the Squadron, so that whilst the Rank makes the Motion, the File remains. "

converse , [a. 2] and [sb. 3]

(1837-8) Sir W. Hamilton Logic I. 257 "The Quantity of the Proposition in Conversion remains always the same; that is, the absolute quantity of the Converse must be exactly equal to that of the Convertend. "

converter .

(1867) Morn. Star 20 Sept. 7 "The converters can thus be worked with liquid iron direct from the blast furnaces, the iron remaining perfectly liquid during the short time of transit. "

(1953) Rep. U.S.A.E.C. on Nucl. Power Reactor Technol. 80 "If the reactor is operating as a converter, the U235 remaining in the core must be decontaminated. "

conveyorize , [v.]

(1959) Times Rev. Industry Mar. 40/1 "Conveyorized production still remains batch production. "

cool , [v.]

(1964) A. W. Gouldner in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 209 "One of the con men remains behind `to cool the mark out', seeking to persuade him to accept his loss of face rather than go to the police. "

cop , [v. 3]

(1969) Win 15 May 9/1 "Isn't it a cop-out to secede from New York State but remain a part of the nation?"

coped , [ppl. a.]

(1611) Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xliv. 366 "His..bones as yet remaine..in a Chest of Grey-Marble, reared vpon foure small pillars, couered with a copped stone of the same. "

copepod , [a.] and [sb.]

(1877) Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vi. 358 "The fore part of the head has remained Copepodous. "

copper , [sb. 1]

(1964) Financial Times 3 Mar. 1/5 "Coppers improved and Kaffirs remained quietly firm."

copse , [sb.]

(1725) Bradley Fam. Dict. II. s.v. Woodcock, "They remain all the Day..under the Leaves and amongst Cops. "

copy , [sb.] ( [a.] )

(1776) Trial Nundocomar 45/1 "The copy I wrote remained with..Nundocomar; the original remained with Pudmohun Doss. "

copyist .

(1756) J. Warton Ess. Pope I. 9 (T.) "No original writer ever remained so unrivalled by succeeding copyists, as [Theocritus]. "

corbel , [sb.]

(1879) Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. II. 131 "The windows of the triforium gallery, with the corbel tabling over them, still remain."

core , [sb. 1]

(1670) Cotton Espernon iii. x. 525 "They would never again be so fully reconcil'd, that there would not still remain a Core in the bosom of the one or the other. "

(1862) Fairholt Up Nile 308 "The square columns..have been in some places literally chipped to pieces and a rude irregular core only remains. "

coresidual , [a.] and [sb.]

(1873) Salmon Higher Plane Curves v. (1879) 134 "If any conic be described through four fixed points on a cubic, the chord joining the two remaining intersections of the conic with the cubic will pass through a fixed point on the cubic...This point..is called the coresidual of the system of four points... Two points which are coresidual must coincide."

corn , [sb. 1]

(1849) J. Pritts Mirr. Border Life 460, "I remained in that situation till corn planting time. "

(1843) R. Carlton New Purchase ix. 64 "Nanny remained near the dutch oven to keep us supplied with red-hot pones or *corn-balls. "

corn-cob .

(1881) T. Hughes Rugby, Tennessee 58 "They remained peacefully among corn-cobs till the danger had passed."

corona .

(1563) Shute Archit. C j b, "Coronix..you shall deuid into .4. partes. geue one part vnto Cimatium vnder Corona..geue likwise .2 parte vnto Corona..&. the fourth part which remaineth, geue vnto Cymatium ouer Corona. "

corporal , [sb. 1]

(1637) Bk. Com. Prayer, Church Scot., "Communion Rubric, He that celebrates shall..cover with a fair linen cloth, or corporal, that which remaineth of the consecrated elements. "

corpse , [sb.]

(1858) Ramsay Remin. vi. (ed. 18) 182 "In Scotland the remains of the deceased person is called the `corp'. "

correctness .

(1695) Dryden Parall. Poetry &. Paint. Wks. XVII. 331 "There remains nothing but a dull correctness. "

correlate , [sb.]

(A. 1878) Lewes Stud. Psychol. (1879) 14 "We can classify subjective facts while remaining ignorant of their objective correlates."

corroboree , [sb.]

(1837) C. M. Goodridge Voy. S. Seas (1843) 126 "After this meal they began a kind of dance, all hands repeating the word corobory. We remained among them till towards daylight, during all which time they continued their revelry. "

Cortaillod .

(1884) Encycl. Brit. XVII. 362/1 "Interesting remains of ancient lake dwellings have been discovered at Estavayer and Cortaillod. "

cosmism .

(1874) Fiske Cosmic Philos. I. 184 "In the progress from Anthropomorphism to Cosmism the religious attitude remains unchanged from the beginning to the end."

costume , [sb.]

(1949) A. Huxley Ape &. Essence 127 "Crumbling remains of slacks and sweaters, of Nylons and costume jewellery and brassieres. "

couch , [sb. 1]

(1875) Ure Dict. Arts III. 187 s.v. Malting, "After remaining in the couch twenty-four hours..the couch is broken, that is, the planks composing the front of it are removed."

(1849) Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. X. i. 178 "The gleans [of hemp] are lifted on to the ground, and form a couch..If suffered to remain longer in the couch it heats and rots."

countercycle

(1944) M. A. Copeland in Amer. Econ. Rev. XXXIV. 332 "A substantial task of providing a `countercycle' through compensatory public expenditure programs will remain. "

counterstock

(1708) J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. ii. xiii. (1743) 123 "The Tally being cloven asunder..one Part thereof, called the Stock, is delivered to the Party that pays the money, and the other part, called Counter&dubh.stock, or Counterfoil remains with them."

countervalue [v.]

(1656) H. Phillips Purch. Patt. B vj b, "The Rent remaining will counter-value the Ground-Rent."

court , [sb. 1]

(1933) R. Tuve Seasons &. Months iv. 170 "The chariot of Phebus the sun..remained as mere learned decoration in Scottish court-of-love poems. "

courtly , [a.]

(1737) Pope Hor. Epist. ii. i. 215 "In our own [days] (excuse some Courtly stains) No whiter page than Addison remains. "

cove , [sb. 1]

(1936) Proc. Prehist. Soc. II. 25 "At Avebury and at Arbor Low there are remains of more complex structures, sometimes known as coves. "

covenant , [sb.]

(1638) Dk. Hamilton in H. Papers (Camden) 11 "If you uill not be content to admitt the Couenant to remaine, call a generall assemblie uher ye may expeckt the Bishopes to be limited. "

covenant , [v.]

(1849) Grote Hist. Greece ii. lxii. (1862) V. 374 "Nothing is covenanted as to any remainder. "

cover , [v. 1]

(1921) C. D. Daly Amer. Football iv. 67 "The remainder of the backfield all move over to cover more securely the ground vacated by the opposite end when he goes through. "

co-versed , [a.]

(1706) Phillips (ed. Kersey), "Co-versed Sine (in Geom.) is the remaining part of the Diameter of a Circle after the Versed Sine is taken from it. "

covin , [sb.]

(1818) Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 412 "From the collusion and covin between the tenant for years and the remote remainder-man."

cow , [sb. 1]

(1854) Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. ii. 412 "The remaining 40 [acres] in *cowlease ground, home crofts, paddock and homestead. "

cower , [v.]

(1848) Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 550 "She remained with her child, cowering for shelter from the storm under the tower of Lambeth Church. "

cow-house

(1760-72) tr. Juan &. Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) I. 235 "I was obliged to remain in a cow-house on that mountain. "

Cox [sb. 2]

(1960) Farmer &. Stockbreeder 12 Jan. 17/1 "Cox's remain a good sale at firm values. "

coy , [a.]

(1984) Financial Times 21 Mar. 6/3 "Mr Pietrzak remains coy about prospective partners, although Japanese companies have been involved in talks as well as Fiat. "

cracker .

(A. 1659) Osborn Observ. Turks (1673) 344 "The Tongues being at the best but the Crackers of Knowledge: the Kernel remaining useless..till picked and dressed by Employment and Experience. "

cracker-barrel

(1958) New Statesman 22 Feb. 244/3 "The late Harold Ross..was always careful to keep the New Yorker `a family magazine'... It's always kept close to the cracker-barrel, and remains a bastion of the commonsense American virtues. "

cradle , [sb.]

(1845) Ecclesiologist IV. 282 "The *cradle roof of the chancel still remains; some of the bosses are very good. "

craft , [sb. 1]

(1850) J. Struthers Autobiog. Poet. Wks. I. 38 "The remaining five were all regularly bred crafts. "

Craniata Craniota [sb. pl.]

(1881) Athen&ae.um 15 Jan. 98/2 "We should have liked to have seen a marked distinction made between..the lampreys and the remainder of the Craniota."

crank , [sb. 2]

(1924) G. B. Stern Tents of Israel vii. 97 "Danny remained at his crank school in Hampstead. "

crap , [sb. 1]

(1877) E. Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss., "Craps, Scraps, scraps of pig's fat which remain after the lard has been extracted by boiling. People eat them with mustard, vinegar, and pepper."

crapula

(A. 1687) Cotton Poems, Night Quatrains (1689) 248 "The drunkard..when he wakes..shall find A cropala remains behind. "

crashing [ppl. a.]

(1884) Athen&ae.um 8 Mar. 307/1 "Remaining unmoved amid a crashing universe, and so forth."

crassament

(1657) Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 592 "The crassament that remains..is called Powder of Mercury. "

cratchen

(1884) Chesh. Gloss., "Cratcherns or Cratchings, (1) the dried up bits that remain after the rendering of lard, used for making cratchern cakes; (2) graves, from a chandler's refuse fat. "

(1887) S. Chesh. Gloss., "Cratchin, (1) one of the bits of flesh remaining after the `rendering down' of lard."

cratling

(1881) Oxfordsh. Gloss. (Suppl.), "Crutlins, the remains of the leaf after the lard is extracted, sometimes called scratchins (Islip cruklins)."

creation .

(1928) Camb. Univ. Cal. 102 "The new Statutes have abolished the practice by which (i) Bachelors in Arts, Law, [etc.]..remained `Bachelors designate' until the last week-day of December... (ii) Masters and Doctors only attained the full degree by `Creation'."

creative , [a.]

(1930) Monotype Recorder, XXIX. 39 "The remainder..fail to see the vital necessity for advertising and establishing a creative sales policy. "

creatress .

(1892) Pall Mall G. 15 Sept. 6/11 "And yet, as happens so often in the case of dramatic successes, the palm remains with Mdme. Doche, the creatress of the part."

crepe .

(1915) Chemists' Windows 27 "Crê.pe paper or plain stiff materials have enough `body' to remain in pleat. "

crept , [ppl. a.]

(1867) W. W. Smyth Coal &. Coal-mining 132 "The workings are closely filled with rubbish, and there remain the isolated crept pillars, only accessible by fresh and dangerous workings."

crepuscular , [a.]

(1668) Phil. Trans. III. 730 "And perhaps I might have lost the Crepuscular remains of my Sight. "

crew , [sb. 1]

(1699) Dampier Voy. II. ii. 88, "I was yet a Stranger to this work, therefore remained with 3 of the old Crew to cut more Logwood. "

crinoid , [a.] ( [sb.] )

(1849) Dana Geol. ix. (1850) 494 "The rarity of Crinoidal remains. "

cripplingly , [adv.]

(1955) Times 1 July 16/3 "The standard rate of income tax..remains at a cripplingly high level."

crispen , [v.]

(1977) Washington Post 6 May d13 "Hatched lines remain distinct rather than coalescing into dark forms. The fact that they are held distinct by the paper allows Rembrandt to crispen and clarify the lines of the image. "

crispy , [a.]

(1611) Cotgr., "Bressaudes, the crispie mammocks that remaine of tried hogs grese. "

crock , [sb. 5]

(1828) Craven Dial. I. 93 "Crockes, two crooked timbers, of a natural bend, forming a Gothic arch. They generally rest in large blocks of stone. Many roofs of this construction are still remaining in ancient farm-houses and barns. "

crock [v. 4]

(1906) Daily Tel. 23 Aug. 9/7 "He limped out to bat, after remaining in obscurity as a crocked player for half a day. "

croft , [sb. 1]

(1851) 2nd Rep. Relief of Destit. Highlands 1850, 42 "The crofting system was first introduced, by the arable part of the small farms previously held in common being divided among the joint tenants in separate crofts, the pasture remaining in common. "

crook , [sb.] and [a.]

(1929) C. C. Martindale Risen Sun 173 "When sport goes crook, what can remain wholesome? "

crop , [sb.]

(1956) J. K. S. St. Joseph in R. L. S. Bruce-Mitford Recent Archaeol. Excavations in Brit. 275 "In spring and early summer, differences in colour, density or luxuriance of growth commonly develop in response to hidden differences in the soil. These `crop-marks', as they are termed, reveal to an observer, often in the finest detail, buried remains of which no trace can be seen on the surface. "

crop , [v.]

(1921) Discovery Feb. 48/1 "The pest..remains in existence until potatoes are again cropped in the field."

crossing , [vbl. sb.]

(1891) Daily News 5 Nov. 3/3 "May Rose, whose jockey..for boring and crossing, was suspended for the remainder of the meeting."

cross-road

(1875) W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 27 "Near the cross-roads are the remains of a cairn."

crow , [sb. 1]

(1862) Cornh. Mag. VI. 648 (Farmer) "Occasionally they [women] assist at a burglary-remaining outside and keeping watch; they are then called crows."

crowdie crowdy .

(1820) Glenfergus II. 275 (Jam.) "Then came..the remains of a cog of crowdy, that is, of half butter, half cheese."

crown , [v. 1]

(1861) Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 183 "Corolla with two ears..which remain and crown the fruit. "

crucible , [sb.]

(1605) Timme Quersit. ii. iii. 113 "Salt-peter remaineth liquid and fusible in a red hote crucible. "

cruising [vbl. sb.]

(1927) G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 45/2 "Cruising radius is calculated with two points of view-one, the vessel's capacity in miles without refueling; the other, her capacity to remain at sea expressed in days running at normal speed. "

crumb , [sb.]

(1829) G. R. Gleig Chelsea Pensioners (1840) 207 "A few crums which remained in our havresacks. "

crunch [sb.] (and [a.] )

(1985) C. McCullough Creed for Third Millennium v. 135 "The real crunch had become the length of time the ground remained unfrozen, but in future years it was likely to become the amount of rain. "

crux .

(1888) Law Times LXXXIV. 293/2 "There remained the point, which was the crux of the case, whether the defendant was under any duty towards the plaintiff. "

crypto- ,

(1882) Syd. Soc. Lex., "Cryptorchidism, the condition of a Cryptorchis. Cryptorchis, term for one whose testicles have not descended into the scrotum, but remain in the abdomen. "

(1888) Contemp. Rev. Apr. 544 "The large number of Christians who professed Islam, but remained *crypto-Christians. "

(1957) Encycl. Brit. XXI. 231/2 "Portuguese crypto-Jews, that is, descendants of Jews whom the Inquisition had compelled to embrace Christianity but who remained Jews at heart. "

crystal , [sb.] and [a.]

(1647) Cowley Mistress, Coldness iii, "Though Heat dissolve the Ice again, The Chrystal solid does remain. "

(1885) Mrs. H. Ward tr. Amiel's Jrnl. 255 "The glacier throws off the stones and fragments fallen into its crevasses that it may remain pure crystal."

cuirassed [ppl. a.]

(1854) H. Miller Footpr. Creat. iii. (1874) 23 "Remains of a large cuirassed fish."

culling , [vbl. sb. 1]

(1663) Flagellum, or O. Cromwell (1672) 70 "The House being thus purged, as they called it..the remaining Juncto of his Culling..passed an Ordinance for Tryal of the King. "

(1780) Brodhead in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) II. 449 "The remaining Continentals are the cullings of our troops, and I cannot promise anything clever from them. "

cultivate , [v.]

(1871) R. W. Dale Commandm. ix. 231 "A rose, however you cultivate it, remains a rose."

cumulative , [a.]

(1876) W. Begbie Bk. Med. Inform. &. Advice App. 251 "Digitalis is what is called a cumulative medicine: its effects are sometimes not immediately produced; but each successive dose remaining in the system, these may be seen even after the medicine is discontinued."

cup , [sb.]

(1867) J. Y. Simpson Arch. Sculpt. 7 "In the centres of the remaining six series of circles there are no *cup-markings. "

cure , [v. 1]

(1887) West Shore Mag. (Brit. Columbia) 451 "The bunch grass cures on the roots, as it stands, and remains as hay until..the spring."

curioso .

(1806) Surr Winter in Lond. I. 216 "[The books] remained stationary on the shelves, except to the curiosi."

curious , [a.]

(1708) J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. iii. ii. (1743) 158 "There are several Specimens yet remaining in the Cabinets of the Curious. "

(1682) Burnet Rights Princes iv. 135 "The curiousest Remains of former Ages that are extant. "

(1931) D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xv. 167 " `I formed the opinion..that Mr. Gowan had..not departed from Kirkcudbright on the Monday evening..but that he had remained concealed in his own house.'.. `Curiouser and curiouser,' said Wimsey. "

curl , [sb.]

(1965) J. B. Marion Princ. Vector Anal. ii. 83 "A paddlewheel placed in a fluid will remain stationary..where curl v = o. A field which everywhere has a vanishing curl is called an irrotational field. "

curtal , [sb.] and [a.]

(1669) Address Yng. Gentry Eng. 80 "There remains nothing of it but the shade of a great name, the empty curtail of its faint eccho. "

curtsy curtsey , [sb.]

(1700) Dryden Fables, Wife of Bath's T. 228 "One only hag remained And drop'd an awkward court'sie to the Knight. "

curvature .

(1875) Bennett &. Dyer Sachs' Bot. 707 "The permanent curvature which remains..or the Curvature of Concussion, is the result of a lengthening of the convex and a simultaneous contraction of the concave side."

curvity

(1616) Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent (1676) 166 "The whole nature of man..remained crooked; not by the curvity of Adam, but by his own. "

custom , [sb.]

(1766) C. Leadbetter Royal Gauger (ed. 6) ii. ix. 333 "The Commissioners of the Customs are to pay into the Exchequer the remaining Part of the Produce of such Seizure made by the Officers of the Customs. "

cut , [v.]

(1815) Scott Guy M. ii, "The apprizer..cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property. "

(1963) A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 157 "The great mines in Victoria..began to cut out..but the miners often remained in the district."

cuticularization

(1875) Bennett &. Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 209 "The cuticularisation of the outer layers never advances far inwards, the cuticle generally remaining thin. "

cutting , [vbl. sb.]

(1966) Rep. Comm. Inquiry Univ. Oxf. I. 56 "There is a cutting edge to our recommendation that Oxford should..remain of medium size. "

cyanicide .

(1904) Julian &. Smart Cyaniding xxviii. 202 "The principal cyanicide remaining in the Rand concentrates is the basic ferric sulphate. "

cycloid [a.]

(1847) Ansted Anc. World iv. 62 "The remaining two groups [of Fishes] are called respectively Ctenoid..and Cycloid..from the shape and structure of the scale. "

cylinder , [sb.]

(1706) Phillips (ed. Kersey), "Charged Cylinder..that part which receives the Charge of Powder and Shot..Vacant Cylinder, that part of the Hollow which remains empty, when the Gun is Charg'd. "

cymatium .

(1563) Shute Archit. C j b, "Coronix..you shall deuid into .4. partes. geue one part vnto Cimatium vnder Corona..the fourth part which remaineth, geue vnto Cymatium ouer Corona. "

Cyrillic , [a.]

(1842) Penny Cycl. XXII. 104/2 "The use of the Cyrillic letters..remained in full vigour among those [Slavonians] who belonged to the Eastern Church. "

cytokinin .

(1968) New Scientist 5 Sept. 503/1 "The cytokinins..are necessary for leaves to remain green and healthy. "

dais .

(A. 1774) Fergusson Farmer's Ingle (1845) 38 "In its auld lerroch yet the deas remains, Where the guidman aft streeks him at his ease. "

Daphne .

(1862) Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xxi. (ed. 2) 497 "Daphnes flourish marvellously and remain in flower a long time."

dark , [a.]

(1841) Specif. Claudet's Patent No. 9193. 3 "[Red light] allows the operator to see how to perform the work without being obliged..to remain in a *dark room. "

darn [sb. 1]

(1879) Miss Bird Rocky Mount. I. 245 "One pair of stockings, such a mass of darns that hardly a trace of the original wool remains."

dash-board

(1925) W. Deeping Sorrell &. Son v. §.1 "Sorrell remained by the car. He liked the colour of it, and the compact brightness of the dash-board. "

daughter .

(1882) Vines Sach's Bot. 139 "One of the two daughter-cells (the Apical Cell) remains..similar to the mother-cell. "

daunt , [v.]

(1610) Holland Camden's Brit. (1637) 256 "Being now daunted by time, there remaineth an heape of rammell and rubbish, witnessing the ruines thereof."

dead letter

(1703) in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1838) 3rd Ser. VII. 62 "The other penny is lost in dead letters (remaining in the several Post Offices). "

dead lock dead-lock [sb.]

(1931) Buck &. Anthony Bring 'em back Alive 297 "For several seconds we remained deadlocked, the animal making a perfect bedlam of the mess-room with his cries of rage. "

deadly , [a.]

(1622) Donne Serm. i. 5 "He that comes alive out of that field [a duel] comes a dead man, because he comes a deadly sinner, and he that remains dead in the field is gone to an everlasting death."

dead-melt , [v.]

(1880) Encycl. Brit. XIII. 341/2 "If cast immediately it is found that a much larger quantity of gas separates during solidification, rendering the steel porous, than is evolved if the metal is dead-melted, i.e., allowed to remain melted for an extra half hour or more. "

deal , [sb. 1]

(1884) J. Payne 1001 Nights IX. 166 "Moreover, they ate not anydele of the food that remained in the tray."

(1806) Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 132 "The remainder [of the money] is divided into shares, called deals, according to the number of persons entitled to a portion of it."

death-wish

(1929) P. Mairet Adler's Problems of Neurosis vi. 84 "After having triumphed over him and having had the death-wish granted by fate, he remained still unsatisfied. "

debating , [vbl. sb.]

(1927) G. B. Shaw Doctors' Delusions (1932) 135 "Shallow petulances and tu quoques which have remained part of the vivisector's stock of debating points ever since. "

debauched , [ppl. a.]

(1796) H. Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 495 "The money of strangers disappears, but their debauched morals remain. "

decadence .

(A. 1649) Drumm. of Hawth. Poems 185 "Doth in Decadens fall and slack remaine. "

decagonal , [a.]

(1717) Berkeley Tour in Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 526 "What remains is a decagonal building. "

decapitate , [v.]

(1874) Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §.67 "A decapitated Frog..remains at rest until it is touched. "

decay , [v.]

(1718) Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to C'tess of Mar 10 Mar., "She had the remains of a fine face..more decayed by sorrow than time."

deceased , [ppl. a.]

(1840) C. Pelham Chron. Crime (1886) II. 349 "An inquest was held upon the remains of deceased at the Dog and Gun. "

deceive , [v.]

(1667) Milton P.L. x. 990 "Childless thou art, Childless remain; so Death Shall be deceav'd his glut. "

decern , [v.]

(1582-8) Hist. James VI (1804) 21 "It was decernit that..shoe sould be transportit to the fortalice of Lochlevin, and thair decernit to remaine in captivity."

decertify , [v.]

(1960) Sunday Times 3 Jan. 11/4 "The 1960s are likely to see the decertification of the majority of the remaining certified mental defectives. "

decil decile

(1882) Galton in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1881 245 "The Upper Decile is that which is exceeded by one-tenth of an infinitely large group, and which the remaining nine-tenths fall short of. The Lower Decile is the converse of this. "

declaration .

(1835) Dickens Let. 18 Dec. (1965) I. 109 "It will be unnecessary for me to remain here for the Declaration of the Poll on Monday. "

declare , [v.]

(1638) Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. ii. §.12. 58 "That those [things] which are obscure should remain obscure, untill he please to declare them. "

decoction .

(1650) Fuller Pisgah i. ii. viii. 174 "The body of his men remaining was still too big, and must pass another decoction. "

decomposing [ppl. a.]

(1870) H. Macmillan Bible Teach. viii. 153 "These plants die, and form by their decomposing remains a rich and fertile mould."

decovered [ppl. a.]

(1658) J. Webb tr. Cleopatra viii. ii. 19 "His face remained almost quite decovered."

decuman , [a.]

(1870) Farrar Witn. Hist. i. (1871) 5 "Confidence, that even amid the decuman billows of modern scepticism it [the Church] shall remain immovable."

decuplate [a.]

(1690) Leybourn Cursus Math. 339 "There remains..Root Decuplate, b = 20."

dedicate , [v.]

(1771) Junius Lett. xlix. 257 "The remainder of the summer shall be dedicated to your amusement. "

dedication .

(1848) B. Webb Continent. Ecclesiol. 57 "Remains of..a dedication-cross. "

deduce , [v.]

(1662) Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. v. §.3, "1117. which being deduced from 3940. the remainder is 2823."

deduct , [v.]

(1596) Spenser Hymn Love 106 "Man..hauing yet in his deducted spright, Some sparks remaining of that heauenly fyre. "

deface , [v.]

(1848) Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 160 "Fine works of art and curious remains of antiquity, were brutally defaced."

defeasance .

(1590) Spenser F.Q. i. xii. 12 "Where that champion stout After his foes defeasaunce did remaine. "

(1602) Fulbecke 2nd Pt. Parall. 68 "As to conditions impossible in facte, such conditions if they go to the defeasans of an estate, the estate notwithstanding remaineth good. "

defectible [a.]

(1736) Butler Anal. i. v. Wks. (1874) I. 101 "Such creatures..would for ever remain defectible."

defence defense , [sb.]

(1917) D. Hecht in C. E. Long tr. Jung's Analytical Psychology (ed. 2) xiv. 424 "By these means she remains at an infantile homosexual stage, which serves her as a defence. "

defensist .

(1932) M. Eastman tr. Trotsky's Hist. Russian Rev. I. xv. 303 "`Our slogan..is pressure upon the Provisional Government..to induce all the warring countries to open immediate negotiations..and until then every man remains at his fighting post!' Both the idea and its formulation are those of the defensists. "

definition .

(1910) Whitehead &. Russell Principia Math. I. iii. 69 "Incomplete..symbols have what may be called a `definition in use'... We define the use of &udtr.2, but &udtr.2 by itself remains without meaning. "

dejeune dejune

(1837) Dickens Pickw. xviii, "For two days after the dejeune at Mrs. Hunter's, the Pickwickians remained at Eatanswill."

delayful [a.]

(1600) Holland Livy xxvii. xxi. 644 "By whose cold and delayfull proceedings..Anniball now these ten yeares had remained in Italie. "

deletion .

(1845) Davison Disc. Prophecy v. (1861) 162 "Rome remains, though Carthage is gone: the similar fate of deletion has not come. "

deliquiation

(1782) Wedgwood in Phil. Trans. LXX. 324 "A salt..which..would have crystallized long before the alkali became dry, or remained after its deliquiation."

delta .

(1858) Geikie Hist. Boulder ix. 172 "The process of *delta-formation remains essentially the same, both in lakes and at the sea. "

deluge , [sb.]

(1601) Holland Pliny I. 65 "In the generall deluge of the countrey by raine they only remained aliue. "

demit [v. 2]

(1563) Win&ygh.et Four Scoir Thre Quest. Wks. 1888 I. 109 "He geuis ane expres command to the innocent woman demittand hir husband, to remain vnmariit or to be reconcilit to hir husband [marg. 1 Cor. 7]. "

demi-vierge .

(1951) Koestler Age of Longing i. viii. 132 "We call demi-vierges a certain category of intellectuals who flirt with revolution and violence, while trying to remain chaste liberals at the same time. "

demob , [sb.] and [v.]

(1945) News Chron. 17 May, "No more Bevin boys will be directed to the pits, but those already there will have to remain until the time comes for them to be demobbed according to age and length of service, just as if they were soldiers. "

demolish , [v.]

(1776) Gibbon Decl. &. F. I. xvi. 422 "They completely demolished the remainder of the edifice. "

den , [sb. 1]

(1611) Bible Job xxxvii. 8 "Then the beastes goe into dennes: and remaine in their places. "

Dene-hole Dane-hole .

(1891) Proc. Soc. Antiq. 5 Feb. 245 "On the discovery of a dene-hole containing Roman remains at Plumstead."

denitrification .

(1883) Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XLIV. 230 "The denitrification is effected by the organisms which are developed; for if the liquid is sterilised by heat..the liquid remains clear and the nitrate is not altered. "

dentil .

(1823) P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 474 "The dentil-bands should remain uncut. "

deny , [v.]

(1660) Barrow Euclid ii. i. "Schol., Let + A be to be multiplied into B-C; then because + A is not affirmed of all B, but only of a part of it, whereby it exceeds C, therefore AC must remain denied. "

deoxyribonucleic acid

(1965) Peacocke &. Drysdale Molecular Basis Heredity vii. 69 "If..one or other of the two nucleic acids has been eliminated from the material by digestion with a specific enzyme (deoxyribonuclease or ribonuclease), the remaining nucleic acid can be located. "

depend , [v. 1]

(1818) Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 11 "An estate tail, and all the remainders over, and the reversion depending on it."

depositum .

(1711) Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 704 "To pay down..half of that as a depositum for the remaining parts."

depsidone .

(1935) Chem. Abstr. XXIX. 147 "The remaining compds. of the orcinol group of Zopf have, in addn. to the depside linkage, a diphenyl ether linkage between the ortho OH groups with the consequent formation of a closed-ring structure. These compds. have been termed depsidones. "

depth .

(1892) Pall Mall G. 19 Jan. 4/3 "He remained three hours in the water, afraid to move, lest he should get out of his depth."

derequisition , [v.]

(1946) Ann. Reg. 1945 342 "Our studio space remained restricted through delays in de-requisition. "

descended , [ppl. a.]

(1966) Wright &. Symmers Systemic Path. I. xxvi. 812/1 "A testis that is still descending at about the end of the first year of life may fail to reach the bottom of the scrotum, remaining imperfectly descended."

descender (1)

(1485) Act 1 Hen. VII, c. 1 "Subjects having cause of Action by Formedon in the descender, or else in the remainder. "

design , [sb.]

(1802) Paley Nat. Theol. ii. §.3 "The argument from design remains as it was. "

designate , [ppl. a.]

(1925) Cambr. Univ. Cal. 85 "Bachelors in Arts, Law, Medicine, Surgery, and Music remain `Bachelors designate' until the 31st of December."

destroy , [v.]

(1818) Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 353 "A person who has only a trust estate, cannot..destroy a contingent remainder expectant on his estate. "

detect , [v.]

(1849) Murchison Siluria iii. 45 "Sandstone in which no other remains but fucoids have been detected. "

detenu .

(1803-1810) James Military Dict. s.v., "That these detenus (we are borne out by the public prints for using the term) would remain as hostages to secure to men in open rebellion all the rights and privileges of fair warriors. "

determinable , [a.] and [sb.]

(1880) Gunther Fishes 314 "Some of the earliest determinable fish remains."

determine , [v.]

(1767) Junius Lett. xxxv. 166 "What..remains, but to leave it to the people to determine for themselves?.. They alone ought to determine."

(1818) Mrs. Shelley Frankenst. vi. (1865) 97 "These reflections determined me and I resolved to remain silent. "

deterrable , [a.]

(1984) Washington Q. Spring 76/2 "For all its military robustness, the Soviet Union remains eminently deterrable. "

deterrent , [a.] and [sb.]

(1954) Statement on Defence p. 4 in Parl. Papers 1953-54 XXII. 474 "The primary deterrent, however, remains the atomic bomb and the ability of the highly organised and trained United States strategic air power to use it. "

detrition .

(1893) Dublin Rev. July 733 "What remains after centuries of detrition and denudation."

detritus .

(1832) De la Beche Geol. Man. (ed. 2) 210 "The whole is evidently a detritus of the Alpine rocks, and in it organic remains are by no means common. "

detruncation .

(1847) Craig, "Detruncation, The separation of the trunk of the f&oe.tus from the head, the latter remaining in utero. "

developed [ppl. a.]

(1971) Nature 11 June 341/1 "The sad condition of Bengal will remain as a sombre reproach to developed nations for many years to come. "

devenustate [v.]

(1653) Waterhouse Apol. Learning 245 (L.) "To see what yet remains of beauty and order devenustated, and exposed to shame and dishonour."

devoir , [sb.]

(A. 1605) Montgomerie Flyting 443 "Whan thae dames deuoutly had done their devore..Of that matter to make remained no more. "

devotedly [adv.]

(1812) Shelley in Hogg Life (1858) II. 137 "Believe how devotedly and sincerely I must now remain yours. "

dew , [sb.]

(1800) tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 84 "There remains a whitish-grey mass, which formerly was called Vitriol Calcined to Whiteness. If you distil it in a retort, and collect the product, you will have first, a water slightly acid, called Dew of Vitriol. "

dial , [sb. 1]

(1865) Athen&ae.um 8 July 49 "The tower remained *dial-less as before. "

diamictonic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1811) Pinkerton Petral. I. Introd., "The remaining six domains, derived from circumstances or accidences, are..8. The Diamictonic, or rocks in which the substances are so completely mingled, that it is difficult..to pronounce which preponderates. "

diamond , [sb.]

(1960) Sunday Times 23/8 "Diamond distance remains to be achieved. "

diaper , [sb.]

(1851) Turner Dom. Archit. I. vi. 305 "There are still some remains of good distemper diaper on the walls. "

diaphragm , [sb.]

(1885) Watson &. Burbury Math. Th. Electr. &. Magn. I. 234 "The hydrogen H2 does not as in that case remain free. It passes through the diaphragm and displaces an equivalent of copper in the sulphate of copper."

dichloride .

(1854) J. Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sc. Chem. 508 "Dichloride of gold remains. "

dicky dickey , [sb.]

(1787) Minor I. 99 "Of all her splendid apparel not a wreck remained..save her flannel dicky. "

dictatorship .

(1892) Loundsbury Stud. Chaucer III. vii. 100 "His [Dryden's] literary dictatorship..remained unshaken."

didactic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1830) Mackintosh Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 59 "A permanent foundation of his [Hobbes'] fame remains in his admirable style, which seems to be the very perfection of didactic language. "

die , [sb. 1]

(1858) De Quincey Greece under Rom. Wks. VIII. 317 "It is hardly `in the dice' that any downright novelty of fact should remain in reversion for this nineteenth century."

difference , [sb.]

(1593) Fale Dialling 19 "Which you shall find least subtract that from the greater, and that which remaineth keep, (for it shall be called the difference kept). "

(1641) J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 41 "Who was the chiefe..remaines in some difference. "

diffluan .

(1863-72) Watts Dict. Chem. I. 138 s.v. Alloxanic Acid, "An aqueous solution of alloxanic acid is decomposed by boiling, carbonic anhydride being abundantly evolved, and two new bodies formed, one of which..difluan, remains in solution, but may be precipitated by alcohol. "

diffusedly , [adv.]

(1588) Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 395 "Whose memorie doth remain vnto this day amongst the..people, although diffusedly. "

digestion .

(1676) Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. 111, "I shewed him that by Digestion the remaining fleshy body..would come away. "

diglossia .

(1982) J. Sledd in Eng. World-Wide III. ii. 246 "While claiming that Black English is not inferior, many popularizing linguists act as if it is-and set out to guarantee that as the low language in a diglossic situation, it will remain so."

dikaryophase .

(1932) Proc. 6th Int. Congress of Genetics II. 191 "The haploid nuclei..remain associated in the relatively long, parasitic dikaryophase. "

dilatorily , [adv.]

(1849) Lowell Lett. I. 167, "I remain very sincerely (and dilatorily) Your friend."

dilettante .

(1890) Spectator 11 Oct. 495 "The Shakespeare temptation remains as strong as ever with the dilettanting world."

diligent [v.]

(1545) Raynold Byrth Mankynde (1634) iv. vi. 197 "Be [the earth]..neuer so well diligented and picked, yet alwayes therein will remaine..seeds of vnlooked for weeds."

dilucidation

(1615) Crooke Body of Man 698 "It remaineth that wee proceede vnto the dilucidation of some difficult questions concerning the Eares. "

diluvian , [a.]

(1766) Pennant Zool. (1768) I. 41 "Remains which fossilists distinguish by the title of diluvian. "

diminution .

(1617) Moryson Itin. ii. iii. i. 213 "The remainder can hardly beare such deminution, as all Armies are subiect vnto. "

(1708) Termes de la Ley 248, "Diminution, is when the Plaintiff or Defendant in a Writ of Error alledges..that part of the Record remains in the Inferiour Court not certifyed, and prays that it be certifyed by Certiorari. "

dinder

(1873) C. W. King Early Chr. Numism. 256 "The clay disks, variously impressed, often found amongst Roman remains in this country, popularly called dinders."

Ding an sich Ding-an-sich .

(1897) Mind VI. 240 "This Reality for us remains little more than a Ding an Sich. "

ding-dong , [adv.] , [sb.] and [a.]

(1864) Daily Tel. 7 Dec., "A ding-dong race ensued for the remainder of the distance. "

dint , [sb.]

(1590) Spenser F.Q. i. i. 1 "Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine. "

dip , [v.]

(1854) Ronalds &. Richardson Chem. Technol. (ed. 2) I. 292 "The short pipes v are consequently allowed to project about that much above the level of the plate, while their lower extremities dip into shallow cups which remain filled with liquid. "

diploe .

(1767) Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 307 "In some parts of the skull, there is naturally very little Diplö.e, and in old subjects, scarce any remains. "

dipolar , [a.]

(1873) Maxwell Electr. &. Magn. §.381 II. 7 "When a dipolar quantity is turned end for end it remains the same as before. Tensions and pressures in solid bodies, Extensions, Compressions and Distortions, and most of the optical, electrical, and magnetic properties of crystallized bodies are dipolar quantities. "

diprotodon .

(1892) Pall Mall G. 30 Sept. 6/3 "Remains of the extinct monster diprotodon."

direction .

(1548) Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 14/b, "And there remained at the kynges charge, til other direccion was taken for theim."

dirigible , [a.] and [sb.]

(1927) Glasgow Herald 28 Apr. 15 "A new dictionary of air terms has been compiled... So far as England is concerned, the word `dirigible' will disappear and only `airship' remain. "

dirt , [sb.]

(1894) J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age (ed. 3) 30 "The beds of snow..being usually marked off by a `*dirt-line' or crust formed of a mixture of dust, small grit, and occasional remains of insects. "

dirty , [a.]

(1925) New Yorker 19 Sept. 6, "I shall insert into the second act of each play one of the three remaining Dirty Words that haven't yet been pronounced on the stage. "

disabuse , [v.]

(1856) Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 136 "It remained for Clement VII to disabuse men of their alarms. "

disanchor , [v.]

(1851) Carlyle Sterling ii. vi. (1872) 138 "We need not dwell at too much length on the foreign journeys, disanchorings, and nomadic vicissitudes of household, which occupy his few remaining years."

disarm , [v.]

(1788) Lady Hawke Julia de G. I. 230 "Disarmed from the slightest remains of envy, Julia returned to the company. "

disarmed , [ppl. a.]

(1594) Spenser Amoretti xii, "I then disarmed did remaine. "

disbelieve , [v.]

(1826) Hallam in Edin. Rev. XLIV. 2 "There would be no historical certainty remaining, if it were possible to disbelieve such a contemporary witness as Sir Thomas More."

disbud , [v.]

(1727) Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Disbudding, "Peaches, Apricocks, etc. are..disbudded, that the remaining Branches may be the better preserv'd. "

discard , [v.]

(1680) Cotton Gamester in Singer Hist. Cards 265 "By discarding the eights, nines, and tens, there will remain thirteen cards. "

discipline , [sb.]

(1874) Green Short Hist. viii. §.5. 509 "The Presbyterian organization remained untouched in doctrine or discipline. "

discless , [a.]

(1871) tr. Schellen's Spectr. Anal. 338 "In the largest instruments the stars remain diskless."

discomposure .

(1756) Bullock in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 402 "Several pieces of minerals were dropped from the sides and roof, but all the shafts remained intire, without the least discomposure."

disconcert [sb.]

(1673) Temple Observ. Netherl. Pref. (Seager), "The remainders of their state are..kept alive by neglect or disconcert of their enemies. "

disconcert , [v.]

(1818) Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. iv. 154 "One of the four divisions..fell behind its time, and disconcerted the operations of the remainder. "

discord , [sb.]

(1602) Marston Ant. &. Mel. v. Wks. 1856 I. 67 "There remaines no discord that can sound Harsh accents to the eare of our accord. "

discordant , [a.] ( [sb.] )

(1651) Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvi. 140 "The reasons and resolutions are, and must remain discordant. "

discoursing [ppl. a.]

(1625) Bacon Ess., Truth (Arb.) 499 "And though the Sects of Philosophers of that Kinde be gone, yet there remaine certaine discoursing Wits. "

discover , [v.]

(1658) Sir T. Browne Hydriot. ii. (1736) 29 "The remaining Bones discovered his Proportions. "

discreet , [a.] ( [adv.] and [sb.] ).

(1533) More Apol. xxii. Wks. 882/2 "A great some remaining after al the spiritual folke sufficiently prouided for, then had it bene good that he hadde yet farther deuysed, how it would please him that his discretes should order the remanaunt."

discreetly , [adv.]

(1891) E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 32 "Ellen remained discreetly silent."

discretion .

(1632) J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 151 "[This] gave occasion to such as remained to yeeld themselves to the enemies discretion. "

disentomb , [v.]

(1871) Fraser Life &. Lett. Berkeley iii. 78 "The disentombed remains of Herculaneum."

disentwine [v.]

(1875) Sunday Mag. June 580 "Thoughts..intertwine and disentwine, but the problem remains."

disguise , [v.]

(1593) Shaks. Lucr. 1452 "Her cheeks with chaps and wrinkles were disguised; Of what she was no semblance did remain. "

disinvest [v.]

(1975) Economist 2 Aug. 4/3 "His only remaining realistic course..would seem to be to disinvest - namely to curtail and actually reduce the size and profitability of his company. "

disject , [v.]

(1893) Law Times XCV. 54/1 "That branch of the Profession elects to remain disjected, a profession of units without common interests, without cohesion. "

dislune [v.]

(1881) A. J. Duffield Don Quixote III. lxiv. 641 "He wondered if Rozinante would remain humpbacked or not, or his master dislocated: it had been no small fortune had he been disluned. [Sp. deslocado, f. loco mad, `cracked'.]"

dismember , [v.]

(1725) Pope Odyss. iii. 322 "Fowls obscene dismember'd his remains. "

disown , [v.]

(1727) Minutes of Yearly Meeting of Soc. Friends 26 Mar. (J. Phillips, 1783), "Any person denied by a Monthly Meeting is adjudged as disowned by Friends and to stand and remain in that state, till by his repentance..he is reconciled to Friends, or reinstated in membership among them. "

displacing [ppl. a.]

(1862) F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 87 note, "That one such quality may displace another, their theory is, that the displacing quality must remain with the quality displaced during the last moment of the subsistence of the latter. "

displeasurable [a.]

(1879) H. Spencer Data Ethics xiv. 245 "The required modes of activity must remain for innumerable generations in some degree displeasurable. "

disposability

(1833) Fraser's Mag. VII. 655 "What can bring back the command and disposability of back-rents, while the present national debt remains. "

disposition .

(1884) Sir J. Bacon in Law Rep. 27 Ch. Div. 47 "The point which is said to remain for disposition when the case is heard."

(1832) Ht. Martineau Life in Wilds ix. 121 "There was a general disposition to remain. "

disputable , [a.] ( [sb.] )

(1724) Swift Drapier's Lett. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 38 "Until any point is determined to be a law, it remains disputable by every subject. "

disquarter [v. 2]

(1632) Quarles Div. Fancies iii. lxxviii. (1660) 132 "If then, at most, the measur'd life of Man Be counted but a span, Being half'd, and quarter'd, and disquarter'd thus, What, what remains for us?"

dissatisfied , [ppl. a.]

(1880) Rhoda Broughton Sec. Th. I. viii, "She remains dissatisfiedly mute."

dissection .

(1937) Wooldridge &. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xiii. 177 "If the active deepening of the valleys is continued after the stage of mature dissection, the ridge-crests will remain sharp. "

dissipated [ppl. a.]

(1738) Johnson London 20 "Of dissipated wealth the small remains. "

dissipation .

(1876) Ouida Winter City iii. 59 "Art had remained with her rather an intellectual dissipation than a tenderness."

dissituate [a.]

(1593) Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 75 "No Trophy remaining, no stone but discituate. "

dissolute , [a.] ( [sb.] )

(1620) Shelton Don Quixote ii. iv, "A great deal of Goods..of all which the young man remained a dissolute Lord. "

dissweeten [v.]

(1667) Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 125 "That fellowship is so dissweetened by remaining corruptions."

distemperance

(1579) Fenton Guicciard. ix. (1599) 382 "It was hard for him to remaine there, both for the want of victuals, and distemperance of the time, winter approching."

distemperate [a.]

(1548) Recorde Urin. Physick viii. 35 "There remaineth yet somewhat of that distemperate trouble in the blood. "

distil distill , [v.]

(1599) Sandys Europ&ae. Spec. (1632) 142 "This man is very charie over that one remaining, and distilleth all other devises rather than set finger to that string. "

distinction .

(1579) Fulke Heskins' Parl. 207 "The distinction remaineth without a difference. "

distortion .

(1867) A. Barry Sir C. Barry vii. 244 "Some remains of the objectionable distortion at the entrance from S. Stephen's Hall."

distraught , [ppl. a.]

(1591) Spenser Ruines of Time 578, "I in minde remained..Distraught twixt feare and pitie. "

distress , [sb.]

(1794) Godwin Cal. Williams 46 "The squire..took the earliest opportunity of seizing on his remaining property in the mode of a distress for rent. "

distress , [v.]

(1609) Skene Reg. Maj. 78 "The distres (or gudes poynded) sall remaine in the possession of the complainer, vntil it be discussed, quhither he is lawfullie or vnlawfullie distressed. "

distressed , [ppl. a.]

(1936) Discovery Nov. 355/2 "The development of newer industries is vital to the recovery of our distressed areas, which remain the one black spot in the otherwise remarkable position of Great Britain. "

distrustful , [a.]

(1618) Hist. P. Warbeck in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 70 "Loth to remain amongst such distrustful enemies, he quietly returned to his most assured friend, the lady Margaret. "

disturnpike , [v.]

(1872) Daily News 26 June, "On Monday next, 1st July, the remainder of the metropolis roads north of the Thames will be `disturnpiked.' "

disvisage [v.]

(1881) Duffield Don Quix. I. 365 "The knight..remained so disvisaged."

disworship [sb.]

(1600) Holland Livy 881 (R.) "It were a great disworship and shame even for them, that there should remaine in bondage any [etc.]."

divaporation

(1612) Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 270 "Divaporation is exhalation by fire of vapour, remaining in liquid substances, till all aquosity be consumed. "

divergence .

(1657) Wallis Corr. of Hobbes ix. 81 "Doth it remain the same angle, the same quantity of divergence? "

diversification .

(1944) A. Cairncross Introd. Econ. ii. vi. 76 "Such diversification makes the firm less vulnerable to sudden changes and allows it to remain a going concern where smaller, less diversified concerns would be forced to give up business. "

divide , [v.]

(1709-29) V. Mandey Syst. Math., Arith. 4 "A Number is said to measure a Number, when one so exactly divides the other, that nothing remains. "

divisor .

(1674) Jeake Arith. (1696) 30 "This Remain is always less than the Divisor. "

dock , [sb. 2]

(1755) Johnson, "Dock, the stump of the tail, which remains after docking. "

doggy doggie , [sb.]

(1984) Listener 5 Apr. 23/1 "About a pound of the remains came home in a doggy bag."

dolly , [v.]

(1965) Listener 11 Feb. 238/3 "The camera..remains static and does not `dolly in' for a close-up, or alternatively `dolly out'."

domestic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1859) Darwin Orig. Spec. i. (1873) 14 "The origin of most of our domestic animals will probably for ever remain vague."

domineering [vbl. sb.]

(1866) Mrs. H. Wood St. Martin's Eve xxxii, "If Charlotte did remain with them, she should not stand any domineering."

Doomie .

(1962) Guardian 30 Nov. 12/4 "Pinwheel was his first name, but..he was adopted by other RAF units under the name of Doomie-and Doomie he remained until the British Army adopted him (circa 1943) with the new name of Chad."

doomwatch .

(1984) Times 20 Mar. 12/2 "The CCU [sc. Civil Contingencies Unit] remains Whitehall's `doomwatch' organization. It keeps constantly updated files on 16 essential industries and services."

door .

Mod. "You had better remain in doors."

dope , [sb.]

(1880) Trans. Amer. Inst. Min. Eng. VIII. 417 "Hercules powder..contains a very large proportion of nitrate of soda..the remainder of the dope being incombustible carbonate of magnesia. "

dope [v.]

(1921) Blackw. Mag. Apr. 535/2 "She rejoined the remainder of the passengers.., having in her hands a doped handkerchief. "

dormant , [a.] and [sb.]

(1882) Vines Sachs' Bot. 640 "The numerous dormant buds of woody plants may long remain buried and yet retain their vitality. "

(1883) Syd. Soc. Lex., "Dormant bud, a bud which remains, it may be for years, undeveloped on a plant stem."

dormy , [a.]

(1892) Pall Mall G. 28 July 3/3 "You are..`all even' so far, and only one more hole remains to be played after this. Should you lose this one, your antagonist will be `dormy', that is to say, he will be one hole up with one to play; so that, although you may yet halve the match, you will not be able to win it. "

double , [a.] ( [adv.] )

(1904) N.Z. Illustr. Mag. X. 48/1 "Sheep annually evaded the shearing muster and remained among the scrub..to develop into `*double-fleecers'. "

double event

(1846) Sylvanus Pedestrian &. other Reminiscences xxiv. 221 "The laying on a `double event', when one of them remains in the bettor's power, having his victim bound in the..chain of certain..loss. "

doubt , [sb. 1]

(1708) Stanhope Paraphr. (1709) IV. 67 "To remove all Remains of Unbelief and Doubt. "

doup .

(1894) Crockett Lilac Sunb. 72 "What remained of the smooth candle `dowp'."

down , [adv.]

(1883) Cambridge Staircase viii. 137, "I am in college, and there I intend to remain till I go down. "

down-market (stress variable) [a.] and [adv.]

(1983) Economist 2 July 66/3 "Kaufhof looks like remaining the most downmarket of West Germany's stores."

downy , [sb.]

(1968) Gloss. Brit. Argot (Paramount Pictures), "Do the downy, remain in bed."

drab , [sb. 1]

(1753) Chambers Cycl. Supp., "Drabs, in the English salt works, a name given to a sort of wooden cases into which the salt is put, as soon as it is taken out of the boiling pan..Their bottoms are made..gradually inclining forwards; by which means the saline liquor that remains mixed with the salt easily drains out. In some places they use cribs instead of the Drabs."

drab , [sb. 2] and [a.]

(1878) Miss Braddon Open Verd. viii. 60 "Though the paint was mostly gone a general drabness remained. "

dracontine , [a.]

(1865) Baring-Gould Werewolves x. 175 "A gigantic man with few of the dracontine attributes remaining."

draft , [sb.]

(1878) J. H. Beadle Western Wilds 532 "All the really valuable survivors of the volunteer army had returned to civil life;..the draft-sneaks and worthless remained. "

drag , [sb.]

(1894) Doyle Mem. S. Holmes 109 "We had the drags at once, and set to work to recover the remains."

drain , [v.]

(1850) Kingsley Alt. Locke i, "He drained the remaining drops of the three-pennyworth of cream."

draining [vbl. sb.]

(1753) N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 90 "The Inside of the Nose remained perfectly clear, and free, nor was there any running or draining from thence. "

dream , [sb. 2]

(1963) Auden Dyer's Hand 510 "Prince Hal will remain his [Falstaff's] dream-son and boon-companion. "

dreggy , [a.]

(1657) Physical Dict., "The thinner parts are evaporated, and the thicker remain black and dreggy. "

dress , [v.]

(1888) N. &. Q. 7th Ser. V. 344 "All that remains of the west sides of the square..is continued on the same plan as the brick house, and dresses with it in height."

(1851) Offic. Catal. Gt. Exhib. I. 229 " For the purpose of dressing the remaining sand off it [a casting]. "

driffle drifle [v.]

(1639) R. Baillie Lett. &. Jrnls. (1841) I. 220 "Some jealousies did yet remaine, as driffling after a great shower."

drive , [v.]

(1727-52) Chambers Cycl. s.v. Printing, "When an omission is to be made..If it be but little, the compositor takes it out, and drives out the remaining matter. "

drive , [sb.]

(1983) 80 Microcomputing Feb. 231/1 "Once a drive has been activated it remains rotating for only 30 seconds. "

drop-letter

(1894) Amer. Dict. Printing 149/1 "Drop letters, two-line letters, the top being as high as the top of a line of an advertisement or of reading matter, the remainder dropping down to the next line. This expression is not used in America, the equivalent being a two-line letter. "

drosophyllum .

(1894) F. W. Oliver tr. Kerner's Nat. Hist. Plants I. 154 "It is not surprising to find Drosophyllum covered at the same time with remains of besmeared dead bodies. "

drown , [v.]

(1642) tr. Perkins' Prof. Bk. ix. §.584. 254 "If the estate in remainder or in reversion be such an estate wherein the particular estate may be drowned. "

drugget .

(1870) Miss Bridgman Ro. Lynne xiii, "The carpets..remained hidden from sight by the cleanest of druggets."

Druidic , [a.]

(1773) Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 230 "The remains of a stone tower, which I apprehend to be a Druidic work. "

Druidical , [a.]

(1879) Lubbock Sci. Lect. v. 167 "Avebury, the most magnificent of Druidical remains."

dry , [a.] ( [adv.] )

(1890) Daily News 8 Dec. 26/5 "Twenty thousand breeding ewes..the remainder being what are called `dry sheep'."

(1971) Scotsman 20 May 20/8 "If the people of Kirkintilloch could be consulted on the issue of whether they should remain `dry' or `wet' it was difficult to see whether they should not also be consulted on the question of whether they should enter the Common Market."

(1946) L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. xv. 173 "For a thousand years these scattered `dry-point' settlements remained typical of the heart of what is now Greater London. "

dry [sb.]

(1968) K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 35 "As the dry progressed and the heat remained constant, they stopped breeding."

dry dock dry-dock

(1927) W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 58 "Those who have been in close contact with the infected patient may have to remain in quarantine or dry-dock. "

(1929) H. A. Vachell Virgin iii. 55 "June found herself in dry dock, and likely to remain there, when her services were most in demand. "

dryness .

(1910) Mark Twain Speeches 430 "When the others drink I like to help; otherwise I remain dry. This dryness does not hurt me. "

dubitation .

(1837) Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. vii. vii, "In the wreck of human dubitations, this remains indubitable, that Pleasure is pleasant."

duck , [sb. 1]

(1893) Cassell's Bk. Sports &. Pastimes 255 "The players [at Duckstone] then, standing at home, `pink for duck', that is, they throw their stones towards the block, and he whose stone remains farthest from the block is first duck."

ductate

(1610) W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. viii. 61 "From the medietie of the sides vnited, subduct each side seuerally; eradicate the ductat of the said medietie and remainders."

dudgeon , [sb. 2] and [a.]

(1781) Mad. D'Arblay Diary May, "I returned without..any remaining appearance of dudgeon in my phiz. "

due , [a.] and [adv.]

(1891) Law Times XC. 409/1 "The whole of those sums remained due."

dukedom .

(1593) Shaks. 3 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 9 "What then remaines..But that we enter, as into our Dukedome? "

dumb , [a.] ( [sb.] )

(1635) J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 29 "Strucken dumbe remain'd Feredo with this..dishonest proposition. "

(1887) Sir R. H. Roberts In the Shires vi. 104 "For a few moments he remained dumb-struck. "

dumb show

(1588) Shaks. Tit. A. iii. i. 31 "Or shall we bit our tongues, and in dumbe shewes Passe the remainder of our..dayes? "

dummy , [sb.]

(1951) M. Wilkes et al. Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer 148 "Order 13 is I F during input of punched digits, T F for dummy zeros which make up remainder of 10 digits. "

dump [sb. 4]

(1955) Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. XIV. 16 "To give a clean shut-down a dump valve was fitted to the cooling jacket which drained overboard any fuel remaining in it. "

dun , [sb. 3]

(1875) W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 138 "Here are the remains of a doon, or of a circular tower of some sort. "

dunce , [sb.]

(1866) R. W. Dale Disc. Spec. Occ. ii. 39 "As some boys remain dunces though they are sent to the best schools."

Dunkirk

(1943) Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. of War 4 Aug.-26 Oct. 21/2 "Evacuation of some of the enemy's forces, harassed by allied aircraft and naval units, has already begun, but it remains to be seen how successful this minor `Dunkirk' will be. "

duplication .

(1965) Peacocke &. Drysdale Molec. Basis Heredity vii. 77 "These results are those expected if the interphase chromosome before duplication contains two components each of which remains intact..during chromosome duplication. "

durbar .

(1793) Hodges Trav. India 105 "In the inner court are the remains of the durbar, or hall of public audience. "

during ,

(1653) Cloria &. Narcissus i. 308 "To remaine..during a necessary conveniency might also be had for the repairing of her own ship. "

dusk , [a.] and [sb.]

(1705) Stanhope Paraphr. I. 25 "Frail Mortality will always have some Remains of Shadow and Dusk. "

dusting , [vbl. sb.]

(1879) Telegraphic Jrnl. 15 Oct. 344/2 "The `dusting-on' process [of phosphorescent photography] consists in coating a plate with a preparation of dextrine, honey, and bichromate of ammonia which..becomes hardened..remaining tacky where it is protected from..light."

Dutch , [a.] , [sb.] ( [adv.] )

(1890) Webster, "*Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open. "

dyad .

(1933) H. B. Phillips Vector Anal. x. 217 "A linear equation satisfied by dyads will remain valid if each dyad is replaced by the dot or cross product of its two vectors. "

dyeable , [a.]

(1969) Sci. Jrnl. July 78/1 "The sheath polymer not engaged in bond formation remains distributed along the fibre where it can still contribute to properties of abrasion resistance, covering power and dyeability. "

dying [ppl. a.]

(1947) C. S. Lewis Miracles xiv. 138 "The records..show us a Person who enacts the part of the Dying God, but whose thoughts and words remain quite outside the circle of religious ideas to which the Dying God belongs. "

Dyothelete , [a.] and [sb.]

(1882) Cave &. Banks tr. Dorner's Chr. Doctrine 220 "The decision of the Dyothelitic Council of the year 680: `The human will remains in unity with the Divine, because it is always determined by the omnipotent drawing of the Logos'. "

eagle , [sb.]

(1927) Observer 3 Apr. 29/1 "[He] let loose a whole flock of `birdies' and `eagles' with which he captured the remainder of the holes. "

ear , [sb. 1]

(1861) Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 183 "Corolla with two ears at the base, which remain and crown the fruit."

earth , [sb. 1]

(1906) W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xix. 191 "The black Shadow that oppressed me was bidden to..scatter itself over the remainder of my *earth-life. "

earthwork .

(1830) Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 278 "The remains of an ancient entrenchment..This earth-work was evidently once of considerable extent. "

eastern , [a.] and [sb.]

(1865) Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 60 "S. Meletius remained in the communion of the Easterns. "

easy , [a.] and [adv.]

(1855) Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 251 "He remained there in easy confinement. "

eating , [vbl. sb.]

(1823) F. Cooper Pioneer vii. (1869) 35/2 "The remainder of the party withdrew to an eating parlour. "

ebb , [sb.]

(1713) Addison Cato ii. v. 80 "To shed the slow remains, His last poor ebb of blood, in your defence. "

ebbing [ppl. a.]

(1597) Daniel Civ. Wars vii. 10 "For all this ebbing chance, remains The spring that feeds that hope. "

echo , [v.]

(1900) A. Dunn Bridge 54 "He should take the first opportunity of echoing in a plain suit, which will inform the leader that he has still one trump remaining. "

echopraxia .

(1904) T. Johnstone tr. Kraebelin's Lect. Clin. Psychiatry iii. 25 "All his movements showed a certain constraint and want of freedom. His limbs remained for some time in the position in which you placed them. If you raised your arms quickly in front of him, he imitated the movement, and he also clapped his hands when it was done before him. These phenomena, called respectively flexibilitas cerea, `waxen flexibility', or catalepsy and echopraxis, are familiar to us from experiments in hypnotism. "

editorialize [v.]

(1960) New Left Rev. May-June 3/1 "`A clear statement that the party remains committed..'-the New Statesman editorialises (5 March 1960). "

eduction .

(1839) R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Eng. 102 "The steam will be cut off..but the eduction will remain open. "

effortless , [a.] and quasi- [adv.]

(1801) Southey Thalaba iv. xix, "Idly to remain Were yielding effortless. "

effronted [ppl. a.]

(1628) Le Grys tr. Barclay's Argenis 216 "Lest my Vncle..should the more effrontedly execute vpon mee the remainder [of his treachery]. "

egg , [sb.]

(1704) A. van Leeuwenhoek in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1620, "I saw exceeding small ones still remaining in the Ovarium or *Egg-nest. "

eggless , [a.]

(1904) H. G. Wells Food of Gods i. iv. 92 "The two surviving hens..spent their remaining years in eggless celebrity. "

ego .

(1871) Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (ed. 6) II. iv. 51 "While the Non-ego shifts, the Ego remains the same."

egoity .

(1722) Wollaston Relig. Nat. ix. 198 "If you would permit me to use a school term, I would say the egoity remains. "

Einstein .

(1958) Listener 11 Dec. 973/1 "Eddington remained faithful to this idea that the universe evolved from the static but unstable Einstein universe. "

either , [a.] ( [pron.] ) and [adv.] ( [conj.] ).

(1588) R. Parke tr. Mendoza's Hist. China 76 "The other thirteene prouinces that do remaine haue eyther of them a vizroy or governor. "

eke , [v.]

(1878) H. S. Wilson Alp. Ascents ii. 57 "After a glass apiece we eke out the remainder with snow."

elapse [sb.]

(1811) Pinkerton Petral. II. 370 "The under current continues to flow; so that upon its complete elapse, the space remains void."

electorship .

(1762) tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 632 "Neumark remained still to the electorship."

electro- ,

(1951) Arch. Ophthalmology XLV. 185 " There remains much that could be investigated using the *electro-oculograph as an instrument of research. "

(1907) Chem. Abstr. I. 2206 " The solid constituents remain as separate as in mixtures such as sand, clay, and lime, the *electrosmotic components separating readily while the non-electrosmotic components remain in the liquid. "

(1907) Chem. Abstr. I. 2651 "Any substances that do not wander *electro-osmotically remain in the liquid. "

(1964) N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. ii. 23 "Atoms bound by this type of valency must remain in close proximity..and there is no question of their leading separate existences, as do the ions in electrovalency. "

elementary , [a.]

(1963) K. W. Ford World of Elementary Particles 17 "The heaviest known `elementary' particle, the xi particle..has not yet been explained as a composite of any of the lighter particles. That all of these particles are built up from some more primordial material remains..a strong possibility. "

elephant .

(1887) Woodward Geol. Eng. &. Wales 519 "The *Elephant Bed [at Brighton] first described by Dr. Mantell is provincially termed Combe rock..it contains remains of Elephas primigenius, etc. "

elephantine , [a.]

(1875) Wonders Phys. World II. iv. 300 "Fossil elephantine remains."

elephantoid , [a.]

(1841) Trimmer Pract. Geol. 407 "No elephantoid remains. "

elevated , [ppl. a.] (and [sb.] )

(1947) Harper's Mag. May 453/2 "The remaining eighty per cent [of the population] cling to the greasy straps of the antiquated, unsanitary, dilapidated, and dangerous Elevated. "

elevation .

(1848) W. Bartlett Egypt to Pal. x. (1879) 221 "The remaining part of the elevation seemed like a small hill placed upon a terrace."

elevator .

(1885) Century Mag. XXX. 579/1 "With staircases and elevator-shafts which must remain open, [etc.]. "

(1934) J. A. Sinclair Airships in Peace &. War iv. 84, "I had remained inside the control car with only the elevator-man and we both left the ship [sc. a zeppelin]. "

elf-lock .

(1810) Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. i. 214 "Their hair remains matted and wreathed in elves-locks. "

elide , [v.]

(1867) A. J. Ellis E.E. Pronunc. i. iv. 342 "It must remain an undecided question whether Chaucer would or would not have elided the vowel."

elite , [sb. 3]

(1968) Listener 4 Apr. 445/2 "The New Statesman was, and remains, an &eacu.lite paper, a `quality' paper."

elixir , [sb.]

(1673) Grew Anat. Roots ii. §.60 "The remainder, is..an Oleous Elixyr, or extract, in the form of a Milk. "

Elizabethan , [a.] and [sb.]

(1953) F. E. Halliday in R. Carew Surv. Cornwall 11 "It still remains..one of the best accounts that we possess of life in Elizabethan England, a quality that should appeal to Elizabethans of the new age."

elogy

(1652) C. Stapylton Herodian 74 "Of such before as writ his Acts or Elogie, Some Records doe unto this day remain."

elongate , [a.]

(1847) Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. 5. 235 "The remaining five forming an elongate club. "

eluviate , [v.]

(1926) Tansley &. Chipp Study of Vegetation vii. 116 "With lapse of time not only are calcium carbonate and other soluble salts leached from the surface soil..but the finer insoluble particles tend also to be mechanically carried down, so that the coarser particles alone remain in the surface layers, which are then said to be `eluviated' as well as `leached'. "

embalm , [v.]

(1856) Kane Arct. Expl. I. xix. 240 "The frost has embalmed their remains."

embalming , [vbl. sb.]

(1867) Trollope Chron. Barset I. xliii. 381 "The embalming of her dear remains. "

embarment

(1620) tr. Boccaccio's Dream 33 "No imbarment remained but remembrance of the Marquesse. "

embed imbed , [v.]

(1863) Lyell Antiq. Man 8, "I have spoken of the embedding of organic bodies and human remains in peat. "

embitter , [v.]

(1868) Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. vii. 89 "An act which embittered the remainder of his days."

embody imbody , [v.]

(1677) W. Harris tr. Lemery's Course Chym. i. xvi. (1686) 376 "The spirit of wine being a sulphur does unite and imbody with those that remain. "

embosom imbosom , [v.]

(1876) Green Short Hist. x. §.4. 798 "What sepulchre embosoms the remains..of so much human excellence and glory? "

embryoniferous , [a.]

(1834) R. Brown Misc. Bot. Wks. (1866) I. 570 "The remains of the embryoniferous areol&ae., from four to six in number, were still visible."

embryotic , [a.]

(1864) Kingsley Rom. &. Teut. 40 "Intellect and virtue remain..embryotic."

emissary , [sb. 2]

(1786) Phil. Trans. LXXVI. 368 "The famous Emissary of the Emperor Claudius remains nearly entire. "

emphasize , [v.]

(1883) Froude Short Stud. IV. ii. iv. 215 "The emphasis of phrases may remain, but the point emphasised has been blunted."

emphatic , [a.]

(1970) Language XLVI. 374 "There remain still to be considered the instances of pronominalization in simplex sentences-reflexives, emphatics, and topicalized sentences."

empire , [sb.]

(1847) in J. C. Byrne Twelve Years Wand. Brit. Colonies (1848) II. iii. 86 "This gentleman asked whether the colony was to remain the sink-hole of the empire. "

(1967) J. Marshall-Cornwall Napoleon ii. 26 "The French field-guns remained unchanged in range and calibre throughout the whole period of the Consulate and Empire."

emporium .

(1805) Lucock Nat. Wool 44 "Perhaps they [the Italian cities] would have remained much longer the emporia of the world. "

emys .

(1873) Geikie Gt. Ice Age 492 App., "Remains of the elephant..the beaver, the emys..and goats."

en , [prep.]

(1889) Athen&ae.um 14 Sept. 351/1 "The persistence with which Mrs. Markenfeld..remains en pension in a gloomy house with such abominable company. "

enaliosaur .

(1863) Lyell Antiq. Man xx. 403 "Remains of an enaliosaur..in the coal of Nova Scotia."

encheer , [v.]

(C. 1800) K. White Christiad ix, "No sweet remain of life encheers the sight."

enclose inclose , [v.]

(1562) Apol. Private Masse (1850) 8 "To enclose that to some one sort of private profit, that ought to remain in common. "

encounter , [sb.]

(1970) J. Howard Please Touch 16 "After the Advanced Encounter I was persuaded easily to remain for the weekend. "

(1968) J. Howard in Life 12 July 65/3 "Will all that remains be a few yellowing Christmas cards from friends we met in encounter groups? "

end , [sb.]

(1969) Canad. Antiques Collector June 24/1 "`End of day' novelties, blown for fun from remaining glass, are..the most interesting from a collector's point of view. "

(1657) Serjeant Schism Dispach't 478 "Would any government..remain on foot three years to an end, if, etc. "

endamageance

(1594) Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits v. (1596) 55 "If the other two [ventricles] remained not sound, and without endammageance, a man should thereby become witles, and void of reason."

endo- , [prefix]

(1900) tr. Deniker's Races of Man v. 148 "*Endocannibalism is but the remains of a natural state of primitive man. "

(1959) Chambers's Encycl. IV. 278/2 "In the walking legs of crabs and lobsters only the endopod remains, but in the corresponding thoracic limbs of some more primitive Malacostra the exopod is presented as a many-pointed flagellum and is used for swimming. "

English , [a.] and [sb.]

(1579) Fulke Refut. Rastel 763 "Prayers remaine still in the Saxon or old English tongue. "

engraft ingraft , [v.]

(1827) J. Powell Devises (ed. 3) II. 245 "An executory limitation [is] engrafted on an alternate contingent remainder in fee on another. "

engrave , [v.]

(1614) Raleigh Hist. World ii. 312 "His Sepulchre remained in S. Hierome's time, and over it the Sunne engraven."

engulf ingulf , [v.]

(C. 1630) Drumm. of Hawth. Poems Wks. 34/1 "Her [Earth's] surface shakes..Towns them ingulf..Now nought remaineth but a Waste of Sand. "

enhearse inhearse , [v.]

(1855) Singleton Virgil II. 6 "We My godlike sire's remains and bones inhearsed In earth."

enosis .

(1955) Times 2 July 6/7 "The Archbishop and his enosis followers remain uncompromising in their demand for immediate self&dubh.determination. "

enrolment .

(1535) Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 27 "Which regester of enrollementes, shall remaine and be safelie kepte in the said courte. "

enseam , [v. 3]

(1725) Pope Odyss. xix. 544 "Deep o'er his knee inseam'd, remain'd the scar. "

enshrine , [v.]

(1820) W. Irving Sketch-bk. I. 267 "The remains of those saints and monarchs which lie enshrined in the adjoining chapels. "

ensign , [sb.]

(1854) Thackeray Newcomes I. 90 "There was never a card in her window, whilst those ensigns in her neighbours' houses would remain exposed..for months together."

entail , [sb. 2]

(1601) Shaks. All's Well iv. iii. 313 "For a Cardceue he will..cut th' intaile from all remainders. "

entente cordiale .

(1847) H. Greville Diary (1883) I. 189 "If Guizot remains in office Normanby must be recalled, as the only chance of a renewal of the entente cordiale. "

enter , [v.]

(1796) H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 339 "Enter into it [harbour] then at this time..while day-light remains. "

(1881) Michell Hawking in Macm. Mag. XLV. 39 "It remains only to break him to the lure, and to `enter' him, each of which processes is soon completed."

enthalpy .

(1950) Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. 76/1 "Since there can be no loss in energy, the enthalpy levels of each of the points of the cycle diagram prior to the final expansion remain the same as for the ideal cycle. "

entire , [a.] , [adv.] and [sb.]

(A. 1631) Donne Paradoxes (1652) 86 "[A miser's treasure profits no one;] Yet it remains intire. "

(1666) Evelyn Diary 7 Sept., "Nothing remaining intire but the inscription in the architrave. "

(1698) Sidney Disc. Govt. i. §.3 (1704) 8 "So that the Question remains intire, as if he had never mention'd it."

entitle , [v.]

(1826) Henry Elem. Chem. I. 635 "The remaining salts of alumina have no properties sufficiently important to entitle them to a separate description. "

entomb , [v.]

(1842) Prichard Nat. Hist. Man 189 "The remains of the dead found entombed in various parts of Europe."

enucleation .

(1960) L. Picken Organization of Cells iv. vi. 139 "The amoeba is unable to spread after enucleation and remains rounded up."

enzymology

(1941) Manch. Guardian Weekly, 17 Jan. 52 "Meanwhile we may remain careless of `what the Swede intend' and let the enzymologists go their way. "

ephedra .

(1963) V. Nabokov Gift ii. 118 "Those plants that to the last remain faithful to travellers: stunted ammodendrons, lasiagrostis, and ephedras."

epidermis .

(1650) Bulwer Anthropomet. 156 "They remain like peel'd Ewes, until their Faces have recovered a new Epidermis. "

epiphenomenon .

(1965) H. Kuhlenbeck in J. R. Smythies Brain &. Mind 156 "Yet, in this respect, consciousness remains either an `epiphenomenon' or a parallel, not `causally' involved phenomenon... The term `epiphenomenon' stresses the `vectorial' or one-way, open transformation from public physical space-time into private perceptual space-time."

epiphysis .

(1882) A. Thomson in Quain's Elem. Anat. (ed. 9) II. 831 (heading) "Pineal gland. Epiphysis cerebri... This body is formed by an out-folding from the back part of the inter-brain roof, at a place where the opposite sides remain united by nervous matter afterwards giving rise to the pineal peduncles. "

epiplasm .

(1906) Cambr. Nat. Hist. I. 96 (Sporozoa) "Some of the cytoplasm of the original cells remains over unused, as `epiplasm', and ultimately degenerates. "

epitrichium .

(1887) A. C. Haddon Introd. Study Embryol. 100 "The epidermis of Amphioxus permanently remains as a single layer. In all other embryo Vertebrates, the epiblast, from being single, becomes double layered, owing to the primitive epiblast giving rise to a layer of flattened epithelial cells, the epitrichial layer. "

epizootic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1840) Humble Dict. Geol. &. Min., "Epizootic, containing animal remains, as epizootic hills, or epizootic strata."

eponychium .

(1885) tr. P. G. Unna in H. Ziemssen Handbk. Dis. Skin i. 23 "A trace of the horny layer of the first foetal months remains only on the ungual phalanx till a later period, and to this..I have given the name `eponychium'. "

equilibrium .

(1879) tr. De Quatrefages' Hum. Species 4 "In the crystal once formed, the forces remain in a state of stable equilibrium."

equiponderance .

(1833) J. Holland Manuf. Metals II. 287 "The equiponderance of the scales may remain unaffected."

equity .

(1928) New Statesman 28 July, Finance Suppl. p. vi, "Out of the combined issued capital of &pstlg.16,629,000 the public put up 93 per cent. of the cash required, but received only 21.8 per cent. of the equity-that is the balance of profits remaining after the fixed dividends have been paid on the Preferred capital. "

equivalent , [a.] and [sb.]

(1707) Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 189 "The remainder of the equivalent money for Scotland is to be sent thither next Tuesday in specie and bank bills. "

(1715) Lond. Gaz. No. 5307/2 "Commissioners for disposing so much of the Equivalent Mony payable to Scotland as remains yet unapplied. "

-er [suffix 6] .

(1892) Isis 8 June 26/1 "At the close of the Lancashire match we heard one man ejaculate..`This is breath-ers'... This..is all that remains of the..expression `breathless excitement'. "

eradicate , [v.]

(1610) W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. viii. 61 "Eradicate the ductat of the said mediatie and remainders."

erasement .

(1753) Ward Rom. Inscr. in Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 345 "There are..no traces of the word sua now remaining;..which makes me suspect, there has been an erasement. "

ergo , [adv.]

(1562) Cooper Answ. Priv. Masse (1850) 108 "Ergo it ought to remain indifferent. "

erratic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1808) Pike Sources Mississ. ii. 175 "Those savages although erratic must remain long enough in one position to cultivate this grain. "

erratical , [a.] and [sb.]

(1861) Wilson &. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes xii. 427 "The remainder of this year was spent somewhat erratically. "

eruption .

(A. 1847) Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor III. xviii. 32 "There is nothing which retards the progress of the Gospel so much as the remaining eruptions of sin among the rulers of the Church. "

escalation .

(1967) Spectator 21 July 87/1 "The case for liberalising the law re marihuana seems almost proven... The doubts remaining are..that it may produce escalation to hard drugs."

eschew , [v. 1]

(1842) James Morley Ernstein xv, "With that careful *eschewance of all listening ears..that gentleman remained bowing in silence till the waiter was out of the room. "

Eskimoid , [a.]

(1939) Peking Nat. Hist. Bull. XIII. 172 "An Eskimoid skull very similar to that of the Upper Cave [in China] is, for instance, represented among the remains of the pre-Columbian Indians from South Western Texas. "

espousal , [sb.] ( [a.] )

(1637) Heywood Dial. 311 "My espousals remaine in my Fathers power, and not mine. "

essay , [v.]

(A. 1704) Locke (J.), "The standard in our mint being now settled, the rules and methods of essaying suited to it should remain unvariable. "

establish , [v.]

(1861) Tulloch Eng. Purit. ii. 177 "In the remaining years of Milton's academic career, he established a high reputation for scholarship. "

establishment .

(1792) Coke &. Moore Life Wesley ii. iv. (ed. 2) 355 "Mr. Wesley's great desire to remain in union with the Church of England..would not allow him to apply for a legal establishment."

(1605) Verstegan Dec. Intell. iii. (1628) 63 "Aduanced to the honourable titles of Earles and Lords, with Establishment for the continuall remaining of these titles. "

estimate , [sb.]

(1630) Pagitt Christianogr. i. ii. (1636) 38 " There was an old estimate made of Germany..that..there was not past one twelfth part of it remaining Catholicke. "

estuarine , [a.]

(1858) Geikie Hist. Boulder x. 193 "The remains of..estuarine..organisms. "

etaoin shrdlu .

(1983) Daily Tel. 13 Sept. 12/4 "`Lot of pleasure but also a lot of pleasure but also a lot of anxiety and heart-searching.' etaoinshrdlu cmfwyp shrdlu cd showed that cinema and per- Mrs Nissel said that the study forming arts ticket prices had more or less remained in line with the Retail Price Index up to 1975/76."

eternize , [v.]

(1568) North tr. Gueuara's Diall Princes iv. II. 104 "The memory of you shall remain eternized to your Successors for euer. "

(1746) Smollett Reproof 113 "Did not his virtues eterniz'd remain. "

ethical , [a.]

(1607) Topsell Serpents (1653) 639 "It remaineth to discourse of the Politick, Ethical, and Oeconomick vertues and properties of them [bees]. "

ethiops

(1770) New Disp. 538/2 "The sulphur..and the mercury..remain at the bottom..united into an ethiops. "

Etruscology .

(1889) Arch&ae.ol. Rev. 377 "Two other Etruscologists remain to be noticed. "

euchromocentre .

(1934) L. W. Sharp Introd. Cytol. (ed. 3) iii. 57 "In many nuclei there are at certain stages one or more conspicuous masses of karyotin at several points in the reticulum. Of the many terms applied to these the most suitable seems to be chromocenters... In some cases it has been shown that they represent definite chromosomal regions which remain condensed and highly chromatic... These euchromocenters appear to correspond in part to the `prochromosomes'. "

euharmonic , [a.]

(1811) Liston Perfect Intonation 27 "The Euharmonic Organ is contrived..to enable the musician..to produce harmony absolutely perfect, while the keyboard remains the same as before. "

eunuch , [sb.]

(1963) Times 18 Jan. 9/5 "It seems that in Rhodesia one cannot remain neutral, that after all one is provoked to react, or become a political eunuch."

Europocentric , [a.]

(1979) I. Berlin Against Current 354 "This wellnigh universal Europocentrism may at least in part account for the fact that the vast explosion..of anti-imperialism..remained so largely unpredicted."

evacuation .

(1794) G. Adams Nat. &. Exp. Philos. I. iv. App. 136 "The evacuations [sc. of air] and the remainders do both of them decrease in the same geometrical progression."

evanescent , [a.]

(1816) R. Jameson Char. Min. (1817) 301 "Evanescent, when the colour remains as long as the mineral is in a state of fusion, but disappears on cooling. "

even , [sb.]

(1549) Cranmer in Strype Life App. xl, "Vigils, otherwise called Watchings, remain in the Calendars upon certain Saints' Evens. "

even , [a.]

(1650) R. Gentilis Consid. Alcibiades 33 "He contents not himselfe to come out of trouble at even hand, by onely remaining comforted. "

even , [adv.]

(1865) Lubbock Preh. Times 323 "Even if the embankment had remained intact to this day. "

evensong .

(1586) T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1589) 718 "All the Frenchmen that were in the Ile of Sicilia..upon Easter day, at the first peale to Evensong..were al put to death..whereupon this proverbe doth yet remaine amongst us, The Sicilian Evensong. "

eventilation

(1716) M. Davies Athen. Brit. 238 "There remains scarce anything now of all their Factions and Frothy Eventilations or Productions of any kind."

ever , [adv.]

(1659) (title) "Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable John Hales. "

everdamp .

(1968) Gloss. Terms Offset Lithogr. Printing (B.S.I.) 24 "Everdamp, a type of transfer paper which remains limp by having a hygroscopic content in its coating."

ever-during [a.]

(1854) J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxiv. 391 "That civil code..will remain an ever-during monument of his labors."

ewe , [sb. 1]

(1769) Bp. Wilton Inclos. Act 7 "A certain sheep-walk called *ewegang..the said ewegang shall remain. "

exact , [a.]

(1818) Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. iii. 414 "The troops were kept in such exact discipline, that the people..remained in their houses. "

exaction .

(1786) Burke W. Hastings Wks. 1842 II. 123 "The small balance of fifteen thousand pounds remaining of the unjust exaction aforesaid. "

examination .

(1841) Macaulay W. Hastings Ess. 1854 II. 651/2 "There remained examinations and cross-examinations. "

exasperated , [ppl. a.]

(1660) Milton Free Commw. 424 "We remain finally secure from the exasperated Regal Power. "

excalate , [v.]

(1900) Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. CXCII. 342 "There remains the assumption that vertebr&ae. have been excalated in front of the pelvis. "

excavation .

(1863) Lyell Antiq. Man 35 "All the remains of organic bodies found during the excavations belonged to living species. "

excommunicate , [pa. pple.] , [ppl. a.] and [sb.]

(1762) Hume Hist. Eng. xiv. 129 "They..engaged the bishops..to pronounce him [Gavaston] excommunicate if he remained any longer in the kingdom. "

excrement (1) .

(1576) Baker Jewell of Health 161 b, "When as in it shall no other be contayned or remaine then the excrementes of the sage. "

excurrent , [a.]

(1835) Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 362 "Excurrent; in which the axis remains always in the centre, all the other parts being regularly disposed round it; as the stem of abies. "

excuse , [v.]

(1737) Pope Hor. Epist. ii. i. 215 "(Excuse some courtly stains) No whiter page than Addison's remains. "

executed , [ppl. a.]

(1848) Wharton Law Lex., "Executed Contract, is where nothing remains to be done by either party. "

execution .

(1640) W. Prynne Petit. in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. I. 76 "The small Remainder of his Ears, left after his first Execution. "

exemplar , [sb.]

(1864) Hazlitt E.P. Poetry IV. 1 "Many pamphlets..remain to us only in a single exemplar. "

exemplary [sb.]

(1583) Stubbes Anat. Abus. B vj, "The pride of apparel remaining in sight, as an exemplary of evill."

exequy .

(1700) Dryden Fables, Sigismonda &. G. 661 "There yet remained thy funeral exequies. "

exercise , [v.]

(1862) H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iv. §.54 (1875) 178 "The force which a given quantity of matter exercises, remains always the same. "

exhalative [a.]

(1594) Plat New Sorts of Soil 25 "When they [corne and other seedes] are ripe..the exhalative water flyeth away, and the generative remaineth."

exhaust , [sb.]

(1904) Goodchild &. Tweney Technol. &. Sci. Dict. 212/1 "In gas and oil engines the exhaust gases consist of the products of combustion, together with any unburnt gases remaining after the explosion. "

exhumator .

(1831) Fraser's Mag. III. 271 "The exhumators of the remains of Adam Smith. "

exhume , [v.]

(1872) Nicholson Pal&ae.ont. 31 "When we exhume an old land-surface the remains of Mammals may be found in tolerable plenty."

exit , [sb.]

(1862) Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VI. l. 175 "Life, she urged, is over; nought remains to look for but a decent exit from it. "

(1987) Oxf. Diocesan Mag. Aug. 10/1 "The polls remained..stable (except for that curiously errant `exit poll' put out by the bbc which accepted the possibility of a hung parliament). "

expectancy .

(1838) Dickens Nich. Nick. xxii, "The whole capital which Nicholas found himself entitled to either in possession, reversion, remainder, or expectancy. "

(1767) Blackstone Comm. II. 163 "Of expectancies there are two sorts; one..called a remainder; the other..called a reversion. "

expectant , [ppl. a.] and [sb.]

(1875) Sir G. Jessel Law Rep. 10 Chanc. Appeals 391 "That peculiar position of reversioner or remaindersman which is oddly enough described as an expectant heir. This phrase is used, not in its literal meaning, but as including..every one who has the hope of succession to the property of an ancestor."

(1765) Blackstone Comm. I. 217 "On her..the remainder of the crown, expectant on the death of king William..without issue, was settled by statute. "

(1818) Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 25 "The right of the remainder-man, expectant on the determination of the estate tail. "

experience , [v.]

(1645) Saltmarsh Open. Prynne's New Bk. 3 "We experience in part some remainders of Prelacy. "

expiscate , [v.]

(C. 1611) Chapman Iliad x. 181 "O friends, remains not one That will..mix..With their outguards, expiscating if the renown'd extreme They force on us will serve their turns? "

explicate , [v.]

(1814) W. Van Mildert Bampton Lect. iii. (ed. 2) 82 "Vain attempts to explicate points which..must ever remain enveloped in..mystery. "

explicit , [a.]

(1886) J. Edwards Diff. Calc. i. 4 "If the equation connecting the variables be solved for the dependent variable, that variable is reduced from being an implicit to being an explicit function of the remaining variable or variables. "

exponentially , [adv.]

(1938) R. W. Lawson tr. Hevesy &. Paneth's Man. Radioactivity (ed. 2) xi. 127 "The &beta.-radiation of the iron salt does not remain constant, but decreases exponentially. "

exposure .

(1839) Visitor 479/1 "Living objects, if they remain motionless during the short periods of exposure, are given with perfect fidelity. "

express , [v. 1]

(1772-84) Cook Voy. (1790) IV. 1204 "The respective crews of both ships, remained as expressed in the two underwritten lists."

expulsion .

(1905) Act 5 Edw. VII c. 13 §.3 "The Secretary of State may..make an order (in this Act referred to as an expulsion order) requiring an alien to leave the United Kingdom within a time fixed by the order, and thereafter to remain out of the United Kingdom."

expurge , [v.]

(1832) H. Melvill in Preacher III. 100/2 "If a few portions of the Bible were expurged, it would be hard..to prove the doctrine from the remainder."

exsanguine , [a.]

(1836) Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 422/2 "Those who have suffered large losses of blood remain exsanguine for many months. "

exscind , [v.]

(1785) D. Low Chiropodologia 133 "He exscinded the remainder with a pair of scissors. "

extant , [a.] and [sb.]

(1561) T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 18 b, "Among so manifold miserable afflictions of the Jewes..they [the tables of God's covenant] remained still safe and extant. "

extended , [ppl. a.]

(1913) Jrnl. Chartered Insurance Inst. XVI. 146 "He can discontinue premiums as before, and remain assured for the full amount for a limited period. This, you will perceive, is a Paid-up Term policy, and is known as Extended Assurance. "

extent , [sb.]

(1872) E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 140 "The valuation of Bagimont..became the standard..of ecclesiastical assessment..lay lands remaining at the earlier standard known..as the Old Extent."

extenue [v.]

(1574) Newton Health Mag. 8 "The matter..which remained in the fleshe might be extenued."

exterritoriality .

(1836) Wheaton Internat. Law I. 273 "The fiction of exterritoriality has been invented, by which the minister though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territories of his own sovereign. "

extinction .

(1921) A. Holmes Petrogr. Meth. 126 "When a transparent mineral fragment is rotated between crossed nicols various phenomena may be observed... If the object remains dark, and is therefore isotropic, the total extinction indicates an amorphous or cubic (isometric) mineral in an unstrained condition, or a basal section of a uniaxial mineral (tetragonal, hexagonal, or trigonal). "

extolled , [ppl. a.]

(1644) Milton Educ., "Those extolled remains of Grecian lawgivers."

extradition , [sb.]

(1839) De Quincey Casuistry Wks. VIII. 308 "If the law of extradition should remain unchanged. "

extramural , [a.]

(1892) Sat. Rev. 14 May 571/1 "There remained only the principle of..`Extramuralism' to be reckoned with."

extraterritoriality

(1836) Wheaton Internat. Law iii. i. §.15 "The fiction of extra-territoriality..by which the minister, though actually in a foreign country, is supposed still to remain within the territory of his own sovereign. "

extreme , [a.] , [adv.] , and [sb.]

(1667) Dryden Ind. Emperor iv. ii, "What now remains in these Extreams?"

exustion

(1720) S. Parker Bibl. Biblica (Gen. xix. 25) I. 424 "The frightful Effects which this Exustion [of Sodom and Gomorrah] left are still remaining."

eye , [sb. 1]

(1966) Guardian 10 Nov. 3/7 "The proposal remains but a twinkle in the Home Secretary's eye. "

(1858) Carpenter Veg. Phys. §.586 "By the remains of the calyx..the eye of the gooseberry is formed. "

(1951) S. Bull Meat for Table vii. 77 "The eye is more tender than the remainder of the bottom round and may be fried. "

F ,

(1953) Jrnl. Gen. Microbiol. VIII. 92 "The majority..of F agents must remain bound to the cells. "

face , [sb.]

(1664) Etheredge Com. Revenge iv. vii, "Set thy face then; let me not see the remains of one poor smile. "

(A. 1832) Bentham Ess. Lang. Wks. 1843 VIII. 327 "Of the history of language, no inconsiderable part remains to this day written upon the face of it."

face , [v.]

(1859) F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. 31 "The remaining companies first being faced to the right about."

facies .

(1905) F. E. Clements Res. Methods Ecol. iv. 238 "It is seldom..that the facies and invaders are so equally matched in height and other qualities that they remain in equilibrium. "

fact , [sb.]

(1834) Edin. Rev. Oct. 73 "The only difference between Crabbe and himself is the fact, that the one was raised from the ranks, while the other is still remaining in them with at least equal independence. "

(1868) Trollope He knew he was Right (1869) II. li. 15 "You can remain a few minutes longer. The fact is, I've got something I want to say to you. "

factor , [sb.]

(1966) J. V. Robison Mod. Algebra &. Trig. xi. 242 (heading) "Remainder and factor theorems."

factory .

(1582) N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. xxi. 54 b, "To the intent hee might remaine in the Factorye with the Factour. "

faecula fecula .

(1791) Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing II. ii. ii. ii. 76 "The fecula remaining on the filter he compared to..Carolina indigo. "

fag , [sb. 4]

(1908) Church Times 7 Feb. 173/1 "He gathered into a leather pouch the remains of his cigarettes, and left the room. `What does he do with all those fags?' asked Conway. "

fain , [v. 2]

(1960) Guardian 1 July 9/7 "The Englishman..could remain absolutely pax and fainites. "

faint , [a.]

(1729) Savage Wanderer iii. 12 "The Stars..faintglimm'ring with remains of day. "

faints , [sb. pl.]

(1883) J. Gardner Brewer, Distiller etc. v. 146 "The remaining weak spirit that distils over, called faints, is caught separately."

fair and square [a.] and [adv.]

(1862) Congress. Globe 27 Mar. 1402/2, "I..doubt..the ability of these guns to remain in their position if..struck fairly and squarely by shot from the enemy."

faithful , [a.] , [adv.] , and [sb.]

(1841) Lane Arab. Nts. I. 100 "Are ye remaining faithful to your covenant?"

faithless , [a.]

(1548) Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. Prol. sig. &dag.&dag.i, "Else shalt thou remaine euermore faithlesse. "

falsehood .

(1611) Bible Job xxi. 34 "In your answeres there remaineth falshood. "

family , [sb.]

(1853) Mrs. Gaskell Cranford iii. 51 "The state of the remainder wine was examined into in a *family council. "

famine [v.]

(1622) H. Sydenham Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637) 178 "Rather..than sacrifice the remainder of a famin'd body to an honourable death."

fancy , [sb.] and [a.]

(1811) Coleridge Lect. (1856) 45 "When the whole pleasure received is derived from an unexpected turn of expression, then I call it wit; but when the pleasure is produced..by an image which remains with us..I call it fancy. "

fane , [sb. 2]

(1637) Heywood Dial. iv. 62 "The phane Where the two brothers deify'd remain. "

fang , [sb.]

(1727) Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Anemone, "[Sifting earth upon the bed] till..there remain only above ground the Fangs of these young Anemones."

fantasy phantasy , [sb.]

(1937) M. Innes Hamlet, Revenge! i. 12 "They have their tenure in remaining-remote, jewelled and magical-a focus for the fantasy-life of thousands. "

fanzine .

(1957) P. Moore Science &. Fiction 90 "So much for the official science-fiction magazines... There remain the amateur publications, known as `fanzines'."

farinose , [a.] and [sb.]

(1882) Vines Sach's Bot. 57 "At every point of a starch grain both constituents occur together; if the granulose is extracted, the farinose remains behind as a skeleton."

farthingdeal

(1835) Rep. Muncipal Corporations Comm. II. App. 1248 "The remaining..acres are divided into quarter acres, called `farthingdoles'."

fascinate , [v.]

(1848) Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 582 "James..remained at Whitehall, fascinated..by the greatness and nearness of the danger, and unequal to the exertion of either struggling or flying. "

fashion , [sb.]

(1594) T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 394 "The seede..receiueth not fashion presently vpon the conception, but remaineth for a time without any figure. "

(1721) Strype Eccl. Mem. II. ii. v. 287 "The king had sent him [Barnaby Fitz-Patric] thither to remain in his [the French king's] court to learn fashions."

fasola .

(1964) Conc. Oxf. Dict. Mus. 320/1 "Lancashire Sol-fa. A modern name for a system of sight-singing more properly called `Old English Sol-fa', since it was universally used in England from at least the early 17th c. and its latest textbook appeared in 1879. It is a method of solmization applied to the normal staff notation; the first 3 notes of every major scale are called fa-sol-la, and so are the second 3 notes, the remaining note being called mi... In the Amer. Colonies (and later the U.S.A.) it was called Fasola or, sometimes (from the special notation there used), Patent Notes."

fast , [a.]

(1607) Shaks. Cor. ii. iii. 192 "If he should still malignantly remaine Fast Foe to th' Plebij. "

(1772-84) Cook Voy. (1790) VI. 2236 "Captain King..remained fast till the return of the boat. "

fast , [adv.]

(1842) Manning Serm. xxv. (1848) 382 "There still remains with us a fast-cleaving and mysterious evil. "

fasting , [vbl. sb. 2]

(1873) W. K. Sullivan O'Curry's Anct. Irish I. Introd. 283 "A Trosca or fasting was made by the plaintiff going to the defendant's house, and remaining there for a certain time..before making his distress."

fat , [sb. 1]

(C. 1647) A. Wheelocke in Lett. Abp. Ussher (1686) 546 "The Lambeth Books..as yet..remain in Fats, or great Chests. "

fate , [sb.]

(1841) Elphinstone Hist. Ind. II. 581 "It only remained to the brothers to decide on the fate of its tenant. "

fatigue , [sb.]

(1912) Min. Proc. Inst. Civil Engin. CLXXXVIII. i. 10 "There only remained the investigation of the effects of the high speed on the *fatigue strength of the specimens. "

favour favor , [sb.]

(1852) Sir H. Douglas Milit. Bridges (ed. 3) 377 "There remains a balance of strength in favour of the bridge."

fear , [v.]

(1611) Tourneur Ath. Trag. v. i, "If any roote of life remaines within 'em..feare 'em not. "

feather-weight

(1958) Times 5 Nov. 13/1 "He [sc. Andr&eacu. Masson] remains..one who can just rely enough on Parisian elegance and flair to be shamelessly pretty and featherweight for much of the time."

Fechnerian , [a.]

(1890) W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xiii. 549 "The Fechnerian Maasformel and the conception of it as an ultimate `psychophysic law' will remain an `idol of the den', if ever there was one. "

fee , [sb. 2]

(1863) H. Cox Instit. ii. xi. 583 "[Of the Counties Palatine] there remain now only those of Lancaster and Durham..the latter formerly an ecclesiastical fee belonging to the Bishop of Durham."

feed , [v.]

(1874) Motley Barneveld I. vii. 323 "He remained in Paris,-feeding fat the grudge he bore to Barneveld."

(1850) Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. ii. 430 "The crop being well grown, it only remains to feed it well off."

fellow , [sb.]

(1874) Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. ii. §.68 "While one leg was convulsed, its fellow remained quiet."

female , [a.] and [sb.]

(1771) Goldsm. Hist. Eng. II. 227 "The king remained in his tent, awaiting the issue of the combat with female doubts and apprehensions."

fence [sb.]

(1848) Punch XIV. 149 "Let M. Galignani rejoice; and let his Bibliothè.que..still remain the greatest literary `fence' in Europe. "

fenestella .

(1879) Rossiter Dict. Sci. Terms, "Fenestella, a polyzoon; known by many fossil remains in Devonian limestones and other rocks."

fenestra .

(1941) Surg. Gynec. &. Obstet. LXXII. 472 "This surgically made fenestra remains open. "

feretrum

(1878) Mackintosh Hist. Civilization Scot. I. xi. 496 "The feretrum, the shrine in which the..remains of the Saint were supposed to be kept."

ferry , [v.]

(1836) T. Hook G. Gurney III. 333, "I intended to remain until the weather cleared before I ferried back. "

fertility .

(1933) E. K. Chambers Eng. Folk-Play 223 "He [sc. Dionysus] remains primarily a fertility-god, with the bull, and perhaps the goat, and the phallus as his attributes. "

feu de joie .

(1963) Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Jan. 44/2 "But the book remains a feu de joie."

field , [sb.]

(1774) Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 102 "The victor is obliged to fight several of those battles before it remains undisputed master of the field. "

(1863) Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xi. 182 "The English Ambassador remained upon the field of the conflict."

(1933) Brit. Birds XXVI. 363 "The elementary co-operative services..a national field centre which can collaborate with other national field centres overseas,-still remain to be provided. "

(1936) Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XL. 191 "The radiated field pattern should therefore remain constant from day to day. There was no evidence whatsoever that atmospheric conditions had any effect on the *field patterns. "

fife , [v.]

(1851) Ruskin Stones Ven. I. xxi. §.xx, "The fluting and fifeing expire, the drumming remains."

figurable , [a.]

(1644) Digby Nat. Bodies xvi. (1645) 177 "Wax remaineth figurable, whether it be melted or congealed. "

file , [sb. 2]

(1649) Lanc. Tracts (Chetham Soc.) 233 "Their examinations remaining still upon fyle in Manchester. "

filibuster , [sb.]

(A. 1587) Garrard Arte Warre (1591) 236 "Such..as bring wares to the campe, he [the High Marshall of the Field] must take order that they be courteously..vsed..procuring them a conuoy..to the intent they may..remaine..satisfied, without suspect of being robbed..of theeues and flibutors. "

filing , [vbl. sb. 3]

(1964) English Studies XLV (Suppl.). 26, "I have selected a number of details that might..have remained in my filing cabinet. "

fill , [v.]

(1963) C. R. Cowell et al. Inlays, Crowns &. Bridges iii. 17 "Any caries remaining is excavated and these localized excavations are filled with cement."

fillet , [sb. 1]

(1966) D. Stinton Anat. Aeroplane xi. 206 "The remaining shape of an aeroplane is largely non-structural, in that it consists of fairings, cowlings and fillets."

filling , [vbl. sb.]

(1901) Chambers's Jrnl. May 302/2 "Each leaf will give on an average two `wrappers' or outside covers for cigars and when used for such the remainder of the leaf is used for `filling'. "

(C. 1860) H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 67 "What is termed the `filling'?..the intervals between the frame timbers are filled up solid..so that if the outside planks be injured a watertight surface would remain."

filter , [sb.]

(1769) Lane in Phil. Trans. LIX. 220 "The clear liquor being decanted, the remainder was passed through a filter. "

filter , [v.]

(1838) T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 200 "We then filter, washing the blue-coloured sulphate of lime remaining on the filter till it becomes red. "

(1794) Schmeisser in Phil. Trans. LXXXIV. 421 "The remaining filtered liquor was saturated with purified pot-ash. "

finagle , [v.]

(1936) Writer's Digest Oct. 4 "Discounting any possible editorial finageling..the solid fact remains that opposing politically minded people do cancel subscriptions. "

fine-tooth [a.]

(1966) A. Firth Tall, Balding, Thirty-five xvii. 216 "We've gone through the remains of the helicopter with a fine-tooth comb, but there wasn't much left."

finger , [sb.]

(1859) North Amer. Rev. LXXXVIII. 492 "The chapel of St. Verena, where the *finger-prints of the young maiden still remain in the rock. "

finite , [a.] and [sb.]

(1840) Lardner Geom. 276 "The distance V F, remains finite. "

(1957) L. Fox Two-point Boundary Probl. ii. 21 "The rigorous theory of finite differences attaches a remainder term to every finite-difference formula and sometimes..the formula diverges and gives no useful result. "

fipple , [sb.]

(1892) Northumb. Gloss., "After stooks of corn remain standing for a time, the bottoms of the sheaves become naturally longer on the outside than the inside, which is called their `fipple'."

fire , [sb.]

(1894) Stead If Christ came to Chicago 295 "*Fire-Marshal Swenie has remained in command of the firemen for many years. "

(1835) Southern Lit. Messenger I. 259 " The remaining expenses are on account of the public markets, fire companies, salaries of officers, [etc.]. "

fire , [v. 1]

(1894) W. J. Lineham Textbk. Mech. Engin. x. 699 "The first practical gas engine..was double-acting, charging with air and gas during a half stroke, firing during the remaining half. "

firming chisel

(1799) Trans. Soc. Encourag. Arts XVII. 337 "Work off the remaining wood with a large firming chissel."

firmness .

(1874) Green Short Hist. iv. §.1. 162 "Terrible..as were the sufferings of the English army, Edward's firmness remained unbroken."

first , [a.] ( [sb.] ) and [adv.]

(1971) Radio Times 27 May 5/1 "Despite a recent ITV series his first love remains radio. "

first rate first-rate [phr.] , [a.] ( [adv.] ), and [sb.]

(1888) Duff Pol. Surv. 5 "As long as France remained a first-rate power."

fisc fisk .

(1641) Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 415 §. 107 "Provyding allwayes that..the bandis or contractes heirby ordeened to perteene to &th.e neerest of kine..shall not fall wnder &th.e compas of escheat nor &ygh.it any pairt therof perteene to &th.e relict jure relict&ae. Bot shall remaine in &th.e owne nature quoad fiscum et relictam as they wer befor &th.e making of this acte. "

fission , [sb.]

(1947) J. Hayward Prose Lit. since 1939 17 "It remains to be seen whether man's discovery and immediate abuse of the cataclysmic energy released by atomic fission will fortify or weaken his transcendental aspirations and noumenal gropings. "

fissure , [v.]

(1656) Ridgley Pract. Physic 173 "When the inward place is Fissured, the outward remaining unhurt. "

fitch , [sb. 3]

(1953) A. G. Knock Willow Basket-Work 21 "When a round of fitching is completed, the remainder of the two rods may be worked out as a pair. "

fix [a.] (and [adv.] ).

(1660) tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxes i. x. 142 "Take then the fix Element that remained after the separation of the Three Imperfect Elements. "

fixate , [v.]

(1945) G. Orwell Crit. Ess. (1951) 185 "It is clear that for many years he remained `fixated' on his old school. "

(1962) C. E. Buxton in Hilgard Introd. Psychol. (ed. 3) xvii. 480/1 "An individual may in some sense have remained immature by being fixated or caught at one stage of development."

fixed , [ppl. a.]

(1712-4) Pope Rape Lock v. 5 "Not half so fix'd the Trojan could remain, While Anna begg'd. "

(1727-51) Chambers Cycl. s.v., "Of all metals, gold and silver alone are fixed; i.e. on remaining a long time exposed to the most intense flame, they alone lose nothing of their weight. "

(1757) A. Cooper Distiller i. i. (1760) 6 "Only a fixed husky matter remains. "

fixture .

(1878) Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. civ. 5 "The earth..remains as stable as if it were a fixture."

flag , [sb. 4]

(1951) Assiac Adv. in Chess iii. ii. 93 "Reshevsky..would remain quite unperturbable by the nerve-racking need to make half a dozen moves or more with the `flag' on his clock about to drop in a matter of seconds. "

flag , [v. 3]

(1709) Steele Tatler No. 179 &page.8 "What Ground remains..is flagged with large Quarries of white Marble. "

flagellate , [a.] and [sb.]

(1963) H. Sandon Ess. Protozool. ii. 25 "If we could trace the ancestry of all multi&dubh.cellular plants and animals back beyond the time of the earliest creatures capable of leaving fossil remains, most people agree that we should come to organisms which, if they lived today, would be included among the flagellates."

flake , [sb. 2]

(1658) Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 908 "That Honey is best for substance, which..if you lift it up..falls to the earth still homogeneous, unsevered, no way parted asunder, but remaines in one continued flake or line."

flame , [sb.]

(1840) Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 237 "Her heart remains faithful to her old flame, the doctor."

flare , [sb. 1]

(1918) E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 235 "Flare, an unsteady, dazzling light used as an illumination and in signaling: in aë.ronautics, a guide for landing. Flare lights, lights used in combination with obstacles, either protected or screened, to prevent the enemy removing them. They are screened in rear so that the defenders may remain in shadow. Flare pistol, a large pistol, which looks like a sawed-off shot&dubh.gun, from which flares are fired. "

flat , [a.] , [adv.] , and [sb. 3]

(1881) Young Every man his own Mechanic §.568 "The flat chisel..is used for smoothing the work, or taking off the remaining wood that was left by the gouge. "

(1940) Chambers's Techn. Dict. 339/1 "Flat-compounded, said of a compound-wound generator the series winding of which has been so designed that the voltage remains constant at all loads between no-load and full-load. "

flatland .

(1884) Abbott Flatland i. §.1 (ed. 2) 3, "I call our world Flatland..Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above it or sinking below it. "

flatness .

(1601) Holland Pliny ii. lxv. 31 "Wonderfull it remaineth..How it should become a Globe, considering so great flatnesse of Plaines and Seas. "

flatuling [vbl. sb.]

(1634) T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. xv. xii. 572 "This half crude humor remaining there, raiseth much flatuling."

flaw , [sb. 1]

(1607) Topsell Four-f. Beasts 415 "It will ranckle worse, by reason of the flaw of yron remaining in the flesh. "

fleet , [sb. 2]

(1703) S. Dale in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1575/2 "Certain remains of the old Channel, which the neighbouring Inhabitants still call Fleets. "

fleeter (2) .

(1893) Scot. Leader 15 Aug. 7 "These vessels..differ from the ordinary trawlers in respect that while the latter return to port at least once a week, the fleeters remain at sea as long as their coals hold out."

fleshing , [vbl. sb.]

(1881) Leicestersh. Gloss., "Flesh-beam or *Fleshing-beam, a wooden instrument..on which is suspended the hide to be dressed, for the purpose of scraping off any remains of the flesh, &.c. "

flight , [sb. 1]

(1962) F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics xiii. 547 "During the 32-hr flight Dr. Simons wore a full-pressure suit and remained seated in the tiny gondola. "

(1937) Discovery Oct. 277/2 "Since the reaction thrust, acting from the extreme rear of the plane, is in no way different from the pull of the aero engine in its nose, and remains in fixed relation to the aeroplane axis, stability and *flight-control are not interfered with. "

flight , [sb. 2]

(1867) Thomson &. Tait Nat. Phil. I. i. §.40 "The remainder of the curve satisfies a modified form of statement of the original question, and is called the Curve of Flight."

(1840) F. D. Bennet Whaling Voy. I. 258 "The remainder..took to flight when their companions were harpooned. "

flightless , [a.]

(1875) tr. Schmidt's Desc. &. Darw. 186 "The scanty but wide-spread remains of the order of flightless birds. "

flighty , [a.]

(1820) W. Irving Sketch-bk. (1859) 34 "This was one point on which he always remained flighty. "

flimsy , [a.] and [sb.]

(1874) L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. iii. 109 "The jewels have remained after the flimsy embroidery..has fallen into decay."

flinch , [v. 1]

(1791) Boswell Johnson 7 May an. 1773 note, "He never flinched; but after reiterated blows, remained seemingly unmoved. "

flint , [sb.]

(1876) D. Wilson Preh. Man iii. (ed. 3) 79 "The whole region..is rich in remains of the old *flint-workers. "

float , [sb.]

(1885) Pall Mall G. 6 Nov. 2 "Something like one-twelfth of the remaining voters are `floats'-that is, men who are looking for money."

floatation flotation .

(1940) Chambers's Techn. Dict. 343/1 "Flotation gear, a system of air or gas bags, sometimes with hydrovanes, to enable a land plane, in an emergency, to land and remain afloat, on water. "

floor , [sb. 1]

(1878) Huxley Physiogr. 235 "Vegetable remains are also met with in rocks beneath the coal, forming what is called the floor. "

(1927) Blackw. Mag. Apr. 527 "Little of the *floorstone remains. "

flora .

(1909) Groom &. Balfour tr. Warming's Oecol. Plants ix. lxvii. 257 "In depressions lying within the subglacial tract where snow remains for a long time, one finds characteristic, greasy mud, which sustains a vegetation of its own-Ö.ttli's snow-patch flora. "

florescent , [a.]

(1821) Blackw. Mag. IX. 201 "[They] will..remain admired and florescent, when the essays of thy most witty emissary are superseded and forgotten."

floscule .

(1669) W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 53 "What remained was a bright styriate floscule."

flourish , [sb.]

(1848) Thackeray Bk. Snobs iv, "The Court Circular remains in full flourish."

flow , [v.]

(1818) Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 306 "This rule flows..from the nature of a remainder. "

flower , [sb.]

(1548) Hall Chron., Hen. IV (an. 13) 32 "Taken prisoner and so remained in Englande..till the flower of his age was passed or sore blemyshed. "

fluent , [a.] and [sb.]

(1648) W. Mountague Devout Ess. vi. §.2. 57 "While the matter of worldly goods remaineth fluent and transitory. "

fluorine .

(1959) J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. iv. 83 "Fluorine and uranium tests have shown that the skull fragments are of the same age as the faunal remains found with them. "

(1968) R. G. West Pleistocene Geol. &. Biol. ix. 160 "The fluorine method is useful for the relative dating of animal skeletal remains found in sand and gravel."

flux , [sb.]

(1727-46) Thomson Summer 35 "Thus to remain, Amid the flux of many thousand years. "

flux , [v.]

(1754) Shebbeare Matrimony (1766) I. 79 "The Alloy, which was fluxed out of him, left so little of the Original remaining, that [etc.]. "

fluxile , [a.]

(1605) Timme Quersit. ii. iii. 115 "The which water, albeit it alwayes remaineth fluxile and liquid. "

fly , [sb. 1]

(1819) Rees Cycl., "Fly..a disease incident to sheep, in consequence of their being stricken by a fly, which produces a sort of maggot, that eats into, and remains in the flesh. "

flyable , [a.]

(1945) Times 3 Aug. 5/6 "Forecasters who are amazingly expert at assessing how long the weather will remain flyable at night at any particular airfield in the country. "

flying , [vbl. sb.]

(1958) Times 18 July 6/5 "Britain's only remaining air line using flying-boats, Aquila Air&dubh.ways, are to cease operations on October 1. "

fly-over .

(1901) Daily News 5 Jan. 6/5 "The junction for the Aldershot branch..is being..rearranged on the `fly-over' system, that is, the down line..remains as it was, but a new one..is being brought over the top of the main line by means of a skew bridge... This `fly-over'..will abolish a fruitful source of delay. "

fold , [v. 1]

(1563-87) Foxe A. &. M. (1596) 936/2 "He remained so long manicled that his haire was folded togither."

foliage , [sb.]

(1858) Glenny Gard. Every-day Bk. 175/1 "Bulbs are too frequently attacked by vermin when allowed to remain in the ground after the foliage has died down. "

(1882) Vines Sachs' Bot. 634 "The cotyledons remain thin like shortly stalked foliage-leaves. "

folk .

(1959) Times 11 Dec. 16/2 "He [sc. Barrie] remains a folk-artist. "

(1904) C. G. Child Beowulf p. v, "Great indeed would have been our loss, if..the only remaining *folk-epic of the Germanic peoples, had perished in doing menial service to grocer or soap-seller. "

folkloric [a.]

(1952) G. Sarton Hist. Science I. iv. 106 "The intimate knowledge of Aegean culture that we owe primarily to a great variety of monuments is confirmed..by folkloric remains in the Aegean area. "

follow , [v.]

(1850) Prescott Peru II. 200 "The remainder of his forces when mustered were to follow him. "

(1902) Westm. Gaz. 18 Dec. 12/2 "In Norfolk it is customary to speak of attending a funeral as `following' the remains. "

fool , [sb. 1] and [a.]

(1824) R. Crabb Tales 142 "He became well in his health; but he remained quite a fool for the rest of his life!"

foot , [sb.]

(1895) Pollock &. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law I. 198 "This `final concord' or `fine', will be drawn up by the royal clerks and one copy of it, the so-called `Foot of the Fine', will remain with the Court."

(1882) O'Donovan Merv Oasis I. xvi. 275 "The footbank has crumbled away to such an extent that only a few inches in breadth remain. "

(1861) Beresf. Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th. C. 148 "Only three of the ranges were really sittings, the remainder having served as steps and *footrests. "

footer , [sb. 1]

(1927) T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk 95 "In the manufacture of stockings..two machines are used... One of these machines, termed the `legger', knits the upper and longer part of the stocking, whereas the other machine, termed the `footer', knits the remainder of the stocking."

footstalk .

(1859) Darwin Orig. Spec. v. (1878) 110 "In some of the crabs the footstalk for the eye remains, though the eye is gone."

footstep .

(1756) J. Warton Ess. Pope (1806) I. 21 "Those who have examined the New Forest can discover no mark or footstep of any other place of habitation..than what at present remains. "

force , [sb. 1]

(1840) H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. 82 "Nothing will justify force while any other means remain untried. "

(1847) L. Hunt Jar Honey (1848) 190 "In the south this ancient custom still remains in full force. "

force de frappe .

(1968) S. Serfaty France, de Gaulle &. Europe vi. 119 "While the left is staunchly against the force de frappe, judged `inefficient, ruinous and dangerous', it remains nonetheless true that the French atomic forces originated during leftist governments. "

ford , [v.]

(1642) Milton Apol. Smect. (1851) 318 "His last Section which is no deepe one, remains only to be foarded. "

fore-deck

(1653) H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. xx. 73 "The remainder..retired in disorder towards the foredeck. "

forehead .

(1793) Holcroft tr. Lavater's Physiog. vii. 44 "The forehead bones remain unaltered. "

foretake [v.]

(1580) Sidney Arcadia (1622) 407 "Yet remained there such footsteps of the foretaken opinion. "

forfeit , [v.]

(1755) Mem. Capt. P. Drake i. 2 "The Family remained in peaceable possession of this Estate..until the War..when..they forfeited, and were driven to shift for themselves."

forgetfulness .

(1663) Charleton Chor. Gigant. 5 "Monuments themselves are subject to Forgetfulness even while they remain. "

fork , [v.]

(1918) E. Pound in Lett. J. Joyce (1966) II. 424, "I will fork up the remaining &pstlg.20 of the fifty promised. "

forked , [ppl. a.]

(1881) Duffield Don Quix. II. 555 "[She] flung her body..across the saddle, and remained forkedly, as if she had been a man."

forking , [vbl. sb.]

(1884) Bower &. Scott De Bary's Phaner. 314 "Where the branching appears and remains as a forking of the main axis."

form , [v. 1]

(1953) R. A. Harvey Battery Chargers iv. 92 "Once the [selenium] rectifier is formed it remains reasonably stable. "

formal , [a.] and [sb. 1]

(1712) Pope 1st. Ep. Miss Blount 42 "Still in constraint your suff'ring Sex remains, Or bound in formal, or in real chains."

formalistic , [a.]

(1941) Courant &. Robbins What is Math.? ii. 88 "In some way or other,..even under the most uncompromising formalistic, logical, or postulational aspect, constructive intuition always remains the vital element in mathematics. "

formation .

(1815) W. Phillips Outl. Min. &. Geol. (1818) 88 "The term formation is not always used to express a deposite consisting only of a single stratum..it is also commonly used to designate a series of..strata, which being intimately associated, and containing the same description of organic remains, are thence..considered to be of contemporaneous formation. "

formedon .

(1628) Coke On Litt. 326 b, "There be three kinde of Writs of Formedon, viz. The first in the Discender to be brought by the issue in taile, which claime by discent Per formam doni. The second is in the Reuerter, which lieth for him in the reuersion or his heires or Assignes after the state taile be spent. The third is [in] the Remainder, which the Law giueth to him in the remainder, his Heires or Assignes after the determination of the estate taile. "

fort , [v.]

(1756) G. Washington Lett. Writ. 1889 I. 360 "While you remain..forted in, as if to defend yourselves were the sole end of your coming. "

fortification .

(1794) Sullivan View Nat. II. 362 "In the neighbourhood of Lexington..are the remains of two ancient fortifications. "

fortune , [sb.]

(1827) Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) II. x. 177 "It remained only..to try once more the fortune of war."

fossil , [a.] and [sb.]

(1831) Brewster Newton (1855) II. xvi. 100 "He regarded fossils as the real remains of plants and animals which had been buried in the strata."

fossilate , [v.]

(1832) Fraser's Mag. V. 553 "The fossilated remains of their skeletons. "

fossilist .

(1766) Pennant Zool. (1768) I. 41 "Those remains which fossilists distinguish by the title of diluvian. "

fossilize , [v.]

(1878) Huxley Physiogr. 229 "There is much more likelihood that the remains of animals..should be fossilized."

fosterage .

(1775) Johnson West. Isl. Wks. X. 484 "There still remains in the islands, though it is passing fast away, the custom of fosterage. "

foughty [a.]

(1625) Markham Farew. Husb. (1625) 115 "Neither will the Corne corrupt or grow faughty, as long as the wormewood remaines amongst it. "

foul , [a.] , [adv.] and [sb.]

(1837) Marryat Dog-fiend xii, "He remained in his..foul-weather hat. "

fountaineer

(1652) Wright tr. Camus' Nature's Paradox 28 "Like those Fountaineers, who shewing curious Water-works and Grotta's..set themselves in some known place where they remain dry, whilst every one else is wetted to the skin."

fourth , [a.] and [sb.]

(1893) Stevenson in Daily News 11 Apr. 6/3 "Of the remaining three-fourth parts of my said father's estate, one-fourth part of the three-fourth parts I give and bequeath [etc.]."

fowl , [sb.]

(1861) Beeton Bk. Househ. Man. §.978 "Fricasseed Fowl. Ingredients-The remains of cold roast fowl [etc.]."

fox , [sb.]

(1735) Somerville Chase iii. 23 "The wily Fox remain'd A subtle pilf'ring Foe, prowling around In Midnight Shades. "

fraction , [sb.]

(1971) Nature 13 Aug. 455/2 "Textural variation depends on changes in the proportions of sand and clay with the silt fraction remaining fairly constant."

fragment , [sb.]

(1531) Elyot Gov. i. xix, "At that tyme Idolatry was nat clerely extincte, but diuers fragmentes therof remained in euery region. "

(1607) Shaks. Timon iv. iii. 399 "Where should he haue this Gold? It is some poore Fragment, some slender Ort of his remainder. "

fragmental , [a.]

(1882) Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (1885) 116 "Fragmental rocks are formed either of the d&eacu.bris of older rocks, or of the aggregated remains of plants or animals."

frank , [a. 2]

(1877) Daily News 27 Dec. 6/2 "What may be effected by frank force remains to be seen. "

fraternal , [a.] and [sb.]

(1904) H. H. Wilder in Amer. Jrnl. Anat. III. 389 "Corresponding to this hypothesis..we may designate these two types [of twin] respectively as Fraternal and Duplicate, thus doing away with the misleading and inapplicable terms `identical' and `homologous' as applied to the one type, and furnishing a distinguishing term for the other, which seems thus far to have remained without a name. "

fraudulency .

(1700) S. Sewall Diary 18 Apr. (1879) II. 11, "I press'd..that Capt. Checkley should give Daniel a Deed; that so this Fraudulency might not remain to be seen. "

free , [a.] , [sb.] , and [adv.]

(1861) Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. I. 8 "The anthers remaining separate, and being termed free. "

(1800) tr. Lagrange's Chem. I. 244 "The nitric acid remains free in the liquor. "

(1825) J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 662 "The whole power of the engine would be expended in impelling itself and the ship..and no free power would remain for freight. "

freedom .

(1867) Thomson &. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. I. i. 130 "A free point has three degrees of freedom, inasmuch as the most general displacement which it can take is resolvable into three, parallel respectively to any three directions, and independent of each other... If the point be constrained to remain always on a given surface, one degree of constraint is introduced, or there are left but two degrees of freedom. "

free wheel free-wheel

(1911) I. Hay Safety Match iii. 48 "For a moment he was silent-free-wheeling, so to speak, over the pulverised remains of Mr. Winch. "

freeze , [sb. 1]

(1948) Electronics Nov. 132/1 "Television Application Freeze Announced. Recent action by the FCC temporarily halted any further authorization of new television stations... The freeze would remain in effect long enough for the commission to decide whether certain changes should be made. "

freeze , [v.]

(1865) Detroit Tribune 6 Oct. 3/1 "The raiders remained in the back room some minutes without making any demonstration, and Smith in the meantime `froze' to the door latch. "

French , [a.] and [sb.]

(1844) B. Disraeli Coningsby II. iv. vii. 77 "Under ordinary circumstances a French bed and a brasier of charcoal alone remained for Villebecque, who was equal to the occasion. "

(1798) Nelson 28 Sept. in Nicolas Desp. (1845) III. 135 "The only remaining *French-built Ship of the Line. "

fresh , [a. 1] , [adv.] and [sb. 1]

(1859) G. Wilson Gateways Knowl. (ed. 3) 71 "The..Mammoth remains fresh as on the day of its death."

(1641) J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 69 "These antipathies..do still remaine..as fresh, as if Adam had but falne yesterday. "

friar [v.]

(1599) Sandys Europ&ae. Spec. (1632) 232 "There remaines nothing for a Iew converted, but to bee Friered."

friary , [sb.]

(1824) Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 122 "The remains of an old friary. "

frigid , [a.]

(1953) J. S. van Teslaar tr. Stekel's Frigidity in Woman v. 96 (heading 97 )"On their part they remain frigid during the act. "

frigidity .

(1634) T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. xxvi. vii. (1678) 633 "If to the same frigidity remaining in Fruits, a certain humidity accrew. "

frigorific , [a.]

(1751) Johnson Rambler No. 159 &page.7 "Knowledge and virtue remain too long congealed by this frigorifick power. "

frit , [v.]

(1805-17) R. Jameson Char. Min. (ed. 3) 295 "Fritting, when single parts of the mass are melted, while others remain unaltered. "

fritter , [sb. 1]

(1820) Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. II. 176 "The finks or fritters were always sufficient to boil the remainder without any other fuel."

frizz friz , [v. 1]

(1885) C. T. Davis Leather xlii. 681 "The treatment with the scraping-knife being generally not sufficient for complete frizzing, the remaining portions of the grain are removed with another sharp knife."

frog (1) .

(1711) Phil. Trans. XXVII. 351 "The remaining Ranatr&ae., or *Froghoppers. "

frontage , [sb.]

(1870) Daily News 16 Feb., "The remainder of the establishment consisting chiefly of the river frontage, will then be sold in plots. "

frontispiece , [v.]

(1715) M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. Pref. 12 "Those two Clementin Epistles..wherewith..Cotelerius frontispiec'd his Collection of Apostolick Remains. "

frozen , [ppl. a.]

(1961) J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 188 "When object balls are frozen they remain in play as they are."

fructiform , [a.]

(1816) Sir J. Sinclair in Monthly Mag. XLII. 298 "The fructiform productions which were found upon the same stalks often remained fixed together."

frying-pan

(1545) Raynold Byrth Mankynde iii. iii. (1634) 167 "That that remaineth, fry it together in a Frying panne with Suger. "

fugitive , [a.] and [sb.]

(1753) Glover Boadicea i. i, "Come from your hills, ye fugitive remains Of shattered cohorts. "

(1864) Spectator 9 Apr. 423 "The greater part of periodical literature is meant to be, and ought to remain, fugitive."

fulguration .

(1853) Ure Dict. Arts I. 98 "When the lead is wasted to a certain degree, a very thin film of it only remains on the silver, which causes the iridescent appearance, like the colours of soap-bubbles; a phenomenon, called by the old chemists, fulguration."

full , [a.] , [sb. 3] , and [adv.]

(1878) Morley Carlyle Crit. Misc., Ser. i. 200 "The Protestant cause remained full of vitality."

(1742) Lond. &. Country Brew. i. (ed. 4) 11 "The Flour of the Grain will remain in its full Quantity. "

fullerphone .

(1922) Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 491/2 "The fullerphone is a telegraph instrument, the essential point of which is the changing at the receiving end of a steady current into an intermittent current of audible frequency, while at the same time the current in the line remains steady. "

function , [v.]

(1894) Westm. Mag. 8 May 2/3 "The mere show, the social functioning and ceremony, remains, although everyone knows that the life of the metropolis no longer expresses itself through the City Corporation. "

functionate , [v.]

(1869) Daily News 11 June, "The reflective faculty remains in undisturbed repose. As the French say, it does not `functionate'. "

funding , [vbl. sb.]

(1792) A Young. Trav. France 517 "It remains a subject of infinite curiosity, to see how far the infatuated and blind spirit of funding will now be pursued. "

furnace , [sb.]

(1892) Labour Commission Gloss., "*Furnace Fillers, men who remain at the top of the furnace and empty therein the loaded barrows sent up from the bottom. "

furnish , [v.]

(1848) Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IX. ii. 555 "It is not..necessary for the hop-tiers to wait until there are three bines for every pole long enough to tie, that is, for the hills to furnish, as they term it..When every pole furnished with three bines pull the remainder out of the hills. "

furniture .

(1692) Ray Dissol. World iii. xi. (1732) 415 "The Earth remaining without any Furniture or Inhabitants. "

further , [v.]

(1816) Scott Old Mort. xi, "To remain together in arms for furthering the covenanted work of reformation. "

fusain .

(1961) W. Francis Coal (ed. 2) v. 296 "Fusain differs very considerably in constitution and properties from the remaining ingredients of coal. "

futile , [a.]

(1892) T. Duncan Canaanitish Woman x. 130 "After all, why should he remain for ever among the futiles?"

G ,

(1927) C. Spearman Abilities of Man vi. 75 "The `general factor'..denoted by the letter g..is so named because, although varying freely from individual to individual, it remains the same for any one individual in respect of all the correlated abilities. "

gadget .

(1967) Daily Tel. 29 Mar. 12/7 "Despite the latest gadgetry-echo-sounders, freezer trawlers, automatic gear-the commercial sea fisherman remains basically a hunter."

Gadhelic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1861) O'Curry Lect. MS. Mat. 3 "Ample materials still remain in the Gaedhlic or Irish language. "

gag , [v. 1]

(1893) Times 14 July 9/5 "The gagging resolution excluded all debate on the remaining clauses. "

gait , [sb. 2]

(1825) Loudon Agric. §.2940 "When the single sheaves (gaites) have remained in this position for a few days, if [etc.]. "

galena .

(1601) Holland Pliny II. 517 "The third part of the vein which remaineth behind in the furnace, it is Gal&ae.na, that is to say, the very mettal it selfe of lead. "

gallery , [sb.]

(1890) Berkeley &Eacu.cart&eacu. &. Euchre 28 "French &Eacu.cart&eacu.. When several persons desire to join in a game of &Eacu.cart&eacu., it is generally arranged in the following manner. Two of the number sit down to play a game in the usual way,..and the remainder, called `The Gallery', are allowed to take part in the game to the extent of betting on the player of their choice, and advising him, if necessary. "

gallows , [sb.]

(1837) Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. v. iii. 270 "Jourdan himself remains unhanged; gets loose again as one not yet *gallows-ripe. "

galvanoplastic , [a.]

(1848) Art Union Jrnl. Feb. 49 "It is placed in a galvano&dubh.plastic apparatus, in which it remains till it is galvano&dubh.plastically covered. "

gamo- ,

(1876) Balfour in Encycl. Brit. IV. 142/1 "The union..may take place by the ovaries alone, while the styles and stigmata remain free, the pistil being then *gamogastrous. "

(1885) Syd. Soc. Lex., "Gamogastrous, a term applied to a pistil in which the ovaries are more or less completely united and the respective styles and stigmata remain free. "

ganger , [sb. 3]

(1882) Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 162 "A ganger, two or more lengths of chain cable shackled to the sheet anchor. It enables part of the sheet cable always to remain bent."

ganoin .

(1859) Todd Cycl. Anat. V. 481/2 "The edges of its `Lepidine' layer do not remain in contact with the ganoin layer. "

gap , [v.]

(1925) Brit. Weekly 5 Mar. 545/3 "Demolishing two-thirds of the houses, and `gapping' and `loop-holing' the remainder. "

gape , [v.]

(1635) Pagitt Christianogr. 222 "Some others who gape to swallow up and make a prey of that little which remaineth. "

gardenist

(1762-71) H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 106 "The domestic called a Gardiner..will remain the Gardiner, the projector I should propose to denominate a Gardenist."

garrison , [sb.]

(1801) Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1837) I. 347 "The garrison could not remain in that fort opposed to the fire of a man of war. "

(1707) Lond. Gaz. No. 4317/2 "Part of their Troops..are to remain in Garison there; the rest are to go into Garison at Mantua. "

Gartner .

(1876) Quain's Elem. Anat. (ed. 8) II. 821 "In the sow and several ruminants..the subdivided upper tubular part or epoophoron has disappeared, and the main part (middle part of the Wolffian duct) remains in the duct of Gaertner, a strong, slightly undulated tube. "

gastro- ,

(1952) F. A. Jones Mod. Trends Gastro-enterol. p. xiii, "In many countries, as in Great-Britain, gastro-enterology is not an established speciality..but remains within the sphere of general medicine and surgery. "

gather , [v.]

(1816) J. Smith Panorama Sc. &. Art II. 694 "Gather the remaining fruits. "

gauge gage , [sb.]

(1825) J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 376 "The pipe G is a sort of gauge, by means of which, after the pulp rises to a proper height in the vessel L, the remainder of the water is carried off into the cistern C. "

Gaulic , [a.]

(C. 1645) Howell Lett. (1650) I. 457 "There be divers old Gaulick words yet remaining in the French, which are pure British. "

gearing , [vbl. sb.]

(1965) Seldon &. Pennance Everyman's Dict. Econ. 193 "Gearing, the proportion of a company's annual income allocated to `prior charges' (interest on debentures and preference dividends), the remainder going to the ordinary shareholders. Where it is high the company is said to be highly geared, and conversely."

Gedinnian , [a.]

(1853) Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. IX. 25 "The `Gedinnian system' must be entirely separated from the Rhenane series with which..it has no organic remains in common. "

general , [a.] and [sb.]

(1818) Jas. Mill Brit. India III. vi. i. 8 "The remaining chiefs..immediately broke into general discord. "

generalization .

(1897) Allbutt Syst. Med. III. 71 "The generalisation of an infective disease which in most instances remains localised may be due..to the dissemination of the specific organism."

generalize , [v.]

(1832) De la Beche Geol. Man (ed. 2) 193 "The presence of fossils in particular strata was instantly generalized; and it became a well received theory..that every formation..contained the same organic remains, not to be discovered in those above or beneath. "

generally , [adv.]

(1583) T. Stocker tr. Civ. Wars Low C. ii. 16 b, "Wee agree..not one forraine Souldier to remaine there generally. "

generic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1851) Richardson Geol. viii. 208 "The preservation of the generic and specific characters of fossil remains varies in different strata."

genetic , [a.] and [sb. pl.]

(1947) H. J. Muller in Proc. R. Soc. B. CXXXIV. 30 "Practically every mutation, even a `small' and non-lethal one, with the rarest of exceptions, requires finally a genetic death, that is, a failure to live or to breed, somewhere along the line of its descent, if the population would remain genetically at par. For each mutation, then, a genetic death. "

genial , [a. 1]

(1595) Spenser Epithal. 399 " And thou, glad Genius! in whose gentle hand The bridale bowre and geniall bed remaine. "

Genoese , [a.] and [sb.]

(1967) Times 22 Mar. 13/7 "The last remaining vines of the Coronata valley which used to provide the exact white wine to accompany Genoese fish."

genouillere .

(1867) Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., "Genouillere, that part of a battery which remains above the platform, and under the gun after the opening of the embrasure. Of course a knee-step."

gentleman .

(1581) W. Blandy Cast. Policy 18 b, "Captayne, Lieutenent, Auncient, Serieant of a Company, gentleman in a company or of the Rounde, Lance passado. These are speciall; the other that remaine, priuate or common Souldiars. "

genuine , [a. 1]

(1612) Drayton Poly-olb. ix. 14 "A constant Mayden still she onely did remaine, The last her genuine lawes which stoutly did retaine. "

genuineness .

(1738) Warburton Div. Leg. I. 111 "The Genuineness of these Remains. "

genus .

(1755) Gentl. Mag. XXV. 33 "When the shells are distributed according to their proper classes and tribes, nothing remains but to remark their less essential differences, by which they are subdivided into genuses and species. "

geochronology .

(1958) F. E. Zeuner Dating Past iv. 109 "Fromm's (1938) geochronologically dated pollen-diagrams from Angermanland provide the remainder of dates in the Scandinavian sequence, and Welten's work in Switzerland may become important as a second pollen-time-scale. "

geologist .

(1855) Singleton Virgil I. 400 "Their very existence would have remained unknown, except for the geologist and the fossil."

geometric , [a.]

(1902) Encycl. Brit. XXV. 572/1 "In the remains of the Geometric Age we may trace the influence of the Dorians. "

geoponic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1827) Steuart Planter's G. (1828) 21 "The Remains of the Greek Geoponic writers. "

geriatric , [a.] and [sb.]

(1982) Spectator 18 Sept. 3/3 "Hua Kuo-feng was replaced by Teng Hsiao-ping but a number of geriatrics remained. "

germ , [sb.]

(1810) Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1838) V. 537 "We ought to..encourage to remain here all the gentlemen of the country, as a germ of insurrection. "

(1855) Owen Comp. Anat. Invertebr. (ed. 2) 673 "*Germ-yolk, that portion of the primary yolk of the egg which is assimilated by the germ-cells in the formation of the germ-mass. In some animals the whole yolk is so assimilated, in others (sepia e.g.) only a small portion, the remainder being the `food-yolk', and absorbed by the future embryo or young animal."

germiculture .

(18..) Med. News LII. 640 (Cent.) "The third point-the antiseptic value of these bodies-still remains for the germiculturist to determine."

gerontomorphic , [a.]

(1959) J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. iv. 86 "These two fossils..are, however, not the only remains of this gerontomorphic, proto-Australoid type from Africa, for fragments of three fossil crania were found in 1935. "

gerundive , [a.] and [sb.]

(1894) W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. 543 "The origin of the Gerundive suffix still remains doubtful."

gesticulate , [v.]

(1815) Scott Guy M. iv, "The gipsy remained on the shore, reciting or singing, and gesticulating with great vehemence. "

get , [v.]

(1613) Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 400 "These reeds would fight together, and the victorie should remaine with him whose reede got the better. "

(1892) Pall Mall G. 19 Jan. 4/3 "He remained three hours in the water, afraid to move, lest he should get out of his depth. "

Getulian , [a.] and [sb.]

(1928) V. G. Childe Most Anc. East iii. 48 "And others [sc. migrants], conveniently termed Getulans, remained in North Africa."

ghastly obsgastly , [a.]

(1855) Prescott Philip II, I. iii. v. 370 "His bloody head was set up opposite to that of his fellow-sufferer. For three hours these ghastly trophies remained exposed. "

ghost , [sb.]

(1897) Mary Kinglsey W. Africa 488 "Between five and six weeks..the widow remains in the hut, armed with a good stout stick, as a precaution against the ghost of her husband."

(1890) Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LVII. 499 "The parenchymatous tissue of the endosperm portions..is completely disintegrated, the cell-walls either entirely disappearing or remaining in a much swollen and altered form as mere `ghosts'. "

(1967) Times 18 July 1/3 "Qantara, after the Middle East war, has been turned into a ghost town, as not more than 1,000 of its 8,000 people remain. "

ghurry .

(1803) in Gurw. Wellington's Desp. (1844) I. 585 "If you are resolved on having an audience, come tomorrow, when only two ghurees of the day shall remain. "

giantism .

(1936) M. Allis Eng. Prelude xxiv. 176 "London remains the great metropolis, but those of the Midlands give an impression of giantism London lacks. "

gilded , [ppl. a.]

(1860) Tyndall Glac. i. v. 39 "It remained the only gilded summit in view."

gimcrack , [sb.] and [a.]

(1639) Chapman &. Shirley Ball iv. H iij, "Luc. There remaines to take away one scruple. Co. Another gimcracke. Luc. I have none, tis your doubt sir. "

gingerbread .

(1813) Hodgson &. Laird Beaut. Eng. &. Wales XII. i. 89 "Little remains of this ancient bulwark except a strong gate&dubh.way. the approach to which has been lately flanked with bastions, in the true gingerbread style. "

gippy .

(1916) Anzac Bk. 138 "And it came to pass that while they yet warmed their hands there was heard a mighty crash, and of the `Gyppies' that remained were picked up seven stretchers full. "

girder , [sb. 1]

(1869) Latest News 5 Sept. 16 "So fierce was the fire, that the glass in the roof melted; but the iron girders remained in their places. "

girdle , [v.]

(1766) J. Bartram Jrnl. 11 Feb. in Stork Acc. E. Florida 65 "There still remain..great trees girdled round to kill them, which are now very sound, tho' above 60 years since they were cut. "

girn , [v. 1]

(A. 1693) Urquhart Rabelais iii. xvii, "The old Trot for a while remained silent, pensive, and girning like a Dog. "

glacial , [a.]

(1786) H. Cavendish in Phil. Trans. LXXVI. 268 "The oil of vitriol prepared from green vitriol, has sometimes been obtained in such a state as to remain constantly congealed..whence it acquired its name of glacial. "

glassful , [sb.]

(1823) Byron Juan xiii. xxxvii, "About a liquid glassful will remain. "

glosso- ,

(1872) W. Aitkin Sci. &. Pract. Med. (ed. 6) II. 283 "In *glosso-laryngeal paralysis the lower part of the face alone remains motionless. "

glove , [sb.]

(1727-41) Chambers Cycl. s.v., "The custom..of blessing gloves, in the coronation of the kings of France, is a remain of the eastern practice of giving possession with the glove."

glow , [sb.]

(1878) Huxley Physiogr. 77 "The merest point remains in a state of glow. "

glucosan .

(1950) G. M. Dyson Man. Org. Chem. x. 805 "An enquiry into..the structure of the remaining product led to the recognition of a number of isomeric glucosans, for it appears that glucose can lose one molecule of water in almost every conceivable way. "

glutin .

(1825) J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 407 "He..wets the fibres [of flax or hemp] and rubs them together, which, by the glutine remaining in them will cause them to adhere. "

gnatter , [v.]

(1757) E. Darwin Let. 24 Dec. in Life (1879) 22 "Here Time with his long Teeth had gnattered away the remainder of this Leaf. "

gnoscopine .

(1951) A. Grollman Pharmacol. &. Therapeutics iv. 88 "The remaining [opium] alkaloids (laudanosine,..codamine, gnoscopine, etc.) occur in too small quantity to have any influence on the action of the crude drug. "

go , [sb. 1]

(1884) Brit. Stand. Handbks. Sports &. Pastimes II. ii. 16 "Skittles, That all pins be knocked down, but should one remain standing it shall be considered an extra `go'... That the number of `goes' be limited to five."

go , [v.]

(A. 1698) Temple Of Her. Virtue Wks. 1720 I. 196 "Whatever remains in Story of Atlas..is so obscured with Age or Fables, that it may go along with those of the Atlantick Islands. "

(1968) K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 41 "The air remained as dry as ever. On some of the stations the cattle were going down; all the earth tanks were dry."

(1888) Steel &. Lyttleton Cricket (Badm.) v. 232 "Nothing would induce the injured batsman to remain..he had been given out and was going out. "

(1818) Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 19 "The estate must go over to the next in remainder."

god-brother

(1571) Campion Hist. Irel. II. viii. (1633) 102 "For which cause the Earle of Desmond remained many yeares Deputy to George Duke of Clarence his god-brother."

godfather [sb.]

(1617) Moryson Itin. i. 37 "After they had fined me some cannes of wine, and..had made me free, it remained that he whom they had chosen to be my God-father,..should instruct me with some precepts. "

godling .

(1570-6) Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 394 "What remaineth..but that altars should be raised..to this our newe found Godlyng? "

God-man

(1559) in Neal Hist. Puritans (1754) I. 93 "After the consecration [of the host] there remains not..any other substance but God-Man. "

(1861) W. L. Alexander tr. Dorner's Pers. Christ (1872) I. i. 1 "It will ever remain the ideal of human life, that it is God-manlike."

Goidelic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1896) Sir H. Maxwell Hist. Dumfries etc. ii. 32 "Novantia, however, remained Pictish,-i.e. Goidelic-in speech and race. "

golden , [a.]

(1967) W. J. Reichmann Spell of Math. v. 90 "The sides of the rectangle are thus in golden section, and the rectangle may therefore be called a golden rectangle... If we draw the largest square possible within this rectangle..then the next remaining rectangle will also be golden."

(1596) Fitz-Geffray Sir F. Drake (1881) 25 "Her silver-feathered turtle-doves, Which in their *golden-wired cage remaine."

goldish , [a.]

(1577) Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 174 "There remaineth on the Table a goldish shine. "

golgotha .

(1749) J. Gwyn Ess. on Design Pref. 6 "Westminster-abbey..was by no Means intended as a mere Golgotha for the Remains of the..Dead. "

gompa .

(1939) M. Pallis Peaks &. Lamas xiii. 147 "Time enough to sort out the remaining stores and attend a service at the Gompa (monastery) to which we had been specially bidden. "

Gondal , [sb.] and [a.]

(1908) C. Shorter Brontë.s Life &. Lett. I. x. 215 "The Gondaland Chronicles, to which reference is made, must remain a mystery for us. "

gono- ,

(1969) A. J. Grove et al. Anim. Biol. (ed. 8) xvi. 382 [Amphioxus.] "For a time each gonotome remains connected to its own somite by a short stalk, but eventually the stalk is severed and in this way a series of young gonads is formed."

gonotocont .

(1928) C. W. Dodge tr. Gä.umann's Compar. Morphol. Fungi i. 1 "The product of fertilization is called a zygote as long as it remains unicellular; it develops into a diplont which forms gonotoconts (organs in which meiosis occurs). "

good , [a.] , [adv.] , and [sb.]

(1796) H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 146 "My good friend, your sister shall remain with us. "

(1818) Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 509 "Although a recovery be a good bar to a remainder for years [etc.]. "

(1895) Ld. Watson in Law Times Rep. LXXIII. 37/1 "They have sold their patent..for..30,000l., and..allowing a reasonable deduction for those items which they have disbursed, there still remains to the good a very considerable sum of money. "

good nature good-nature

(1657) Jer. Taylor Serm. at Funeral Sir G. Dalstone Wks. 1828 VI. 563 "A good nature, being the relicks and remains of that shipwreck which Adam made, is the proper and immediate disposition to holiness..When good nature is heightened by the grace of God, that which was natural becomes now spiritual. "

goodness .

(1819) Col. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 185 "Here I remained..for goodness knows how many hours. "

goombay .

(1834) M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. 322 "The greatest part remained quietly in the negro houses beating the gumby-drum. "

goon .

(1945) G. Morgan Only Ghosts can Live, 140, "The cry, `Goon up!' remained in many camps a warning of the approach of the Detaining Power. "

goose , [sb.]

(1799) Aurora (Philad.) 31 Jan. (Th.), "The gulls and goose-traps that have been sported for some time past all come from the shop in which the Washington Lottery wheels remain undrawn, and where a new goose-trap, the Amuskeag canal, was some time since hammered out. "

goose-wing

(1577) B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 188 b, "If any thing remaine, not washed away, you must sweepe it out with a Goose wing. "

gossiper .

(1885) L'pool Daily Post 29 Aug. 5/2 "Gossipers on the Flags were pleased to notice that cotton remains fair."

gourbi .

(1963) Economist 29 June 1352/3 "A number [of Alglerians]..must remain..in the `gourbis', their floorless, mosquito-ridden mud or wattle hovels."

gourd (1) .

(1892) Harper's Mag. May LXXXIV. 936/2 "The rank, malodorous *gourd-vine that straggled over the remains of last year's bean poles. "

governance .

(1533-4) Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 22 §.11 "Your said issue..shalbe &. remaine..at and in the gouernance of their naturall mother. "

governess , [v.]

(1852) Tait's Mag. XIX. 346 "Esther yet remains single, and governesses her brother's rising family. "

government .

(1647-8) Cotterell Davila's Hist. Fr. (1678) 9 "Those few small governments which yet remained in their family. "

grab , [v.]

(1788) W. Eden in G. Rose's Diaries (1860) I. 74 "There remained merely the finding and grabbing some respectable office for life. "

grad (3)

(1909) J. G. Coffin Vector Analysis 103 "It remains to show that the operator &udtr. applied to V gives the grad. "

gradational , [a.]

(1880) G. Meredith Tragic Com. xviii. (1892) 252 "It was easier to remain incredulous notwithstanding the gradational distinctness of the whispers."

graded , [ppl. a.]

(1882) W. H. Bishop in Harper's Mag. Dec. 60/2 "A half mile of graded road-bed alone remains."

grafter (3) .

(1896) Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 20 Apr. 3/8 "Most of the `grafters' have left the town, and not many of them will remain here. "

gramicidin .

(1940) Hotchkiss &. Dubos in Jrnl. Biol. Chem. CXXXII. 791 "Three crystalline preparations highly bactericidal for Gram-positive microorganisms have been obtained... The third substance, which we have named gramicidin, is concentrated by repeatedly recovering the fraction which remains soluble in alcohol. "

grand , [a.] and [sb.]

(1966) A. J. Marder From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow III. vi. 207 "The moral ascendancy of the Grand Fleet over the High Seas Fleet remained and, if anything, was stronger. "

(1889) Elvin Dict. Heraldry, s.v. "Marshalling, a *Grand Quartering..usually accompanies the assumption of a second name, and unites the two associated coats so inseparably, that if they come to be Marshalled with other quarterings they are no longer (as in other cases) spread out among them, but they still remain together as a Grand Quartering. "

grandezza grandeza

(1675) H. Teonge Diary (1825) 87 "This island [Cyprus]..had in it 30 cittys, of which there still remaine many worthy memorables of their pristin grandetsa's."

grandparental , [a.]

(1958) New Biology XXVI. Pl. 3(b), "At the base of the parent corm is the remains of the connexion to the `grandparental' corm."

grant , [v.]

(1674) tr. Scheffer's Lapland 4 "Granting there were antiently such names..it remaines doubtfull [etc.]. "

Granth .

(1934) H. H. Gowen Hist. Religion, xxiii. 347 "When the tenth Guru died the succession was regarded as closed and the Adi Granth remained the sole authority. "

grape , [sb. 1]

(1830) M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 249 "The *grape-cake which remains after the wine has been pressed out is called by the French les marcs de raisin. "

graphitization .

(1951) Proc. R. Soc. A. CCIX. 215 "Graphitization [of the coal] does not occur because the crystallites are in random orientation and the pore structure remains intact. "

graphitize , [v.]

(1937) Epstein &. Sisco Alloys Iron &. Carbon II. x. 369 "All the remaining austenite changes to ferrite and cementite; the remaining cementite has, therefore, still to be graphitized. "

grappier .

(1905) E. C. Eckel Cements 185 "Grappier cements are made by grinding finely the lumps of unburned and overburned material which remain when a hydraulic lime is slaked. "

grass-green [a.] (and [sb.] )

(1641) French Distill. vi. (1651) 193 "There will remaine..a grasse-green Liquor. "

gratify , [v.]

(1607) Shaks. Cor. ii. ii. 44 "It remaines..To gratifie his Noble seruice. "

gratin .

(1964) Good Housek. New Cooking v. 57 "Egg and Spinach Au Gratin... Sprinkle on the remaining cheese and grill until golden."

grave , [sb. 1]

(1756-7) tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 97 "Here in one grave are deposited the remains of Constantia..and..her daughter. "

grave , [sb. 3]

(1605) Saltern Ant. Laws Gt. Brit. E 2 b, "The Saxons..called their Nobles by a name of the same signification, viz. Earles or eldermen, a name of nobilitie vnknowne in their owne Countrie; where (as I take it) they are called Graues or Greues, signifying a gouernor, which name also they brought hither, and it remaineth in some vse to this day. "

grave , [v. 2]

(1891) C. Creighton Hist. Epidemics 585 "They graved the ship there and remained twenty-six days."

gravitation .

(1860) Maury Phys. Geog. Sea (Low) ii. §.95 "But for the forces of gravitation the waters of the Mississippi would remain at its fountain. "

gravity .

(1758) Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 234 "As the fire carries off the most aqueous part, the other which remains in the retort increases in specific gravity. "

grease , [sb.]

(1860) Slang Dict., "Grease-spot, a minute remnant, the only distinguishable remains of an antagonist after a terrific contest. "

greaser .

(1906) L. Claremont Gem-Cutter's Craft 100 "The heavy material among which are the diamonds..is..passed through a machine called the `greaser', which consists of a shaking table made of five shallow steps..coated with a thick layer of grease, and the diamonds adhere to the grease while the remainder of the gravel is washed away. "

grece .

(1611) Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. §.46 "Neither is the Popes reuenge thus appeased, some higher greeces yet remaine, on which his Greatnesse..must display it selfe. "

greediness .

(1641) J. Jackson True Evang. T. i. 73 "There is too much of the greedinesse of the Wolfe still remaining. "

greenback , [sb.]

(1961) Amat. Gardening 21 Oct. Suppl. 25/1 "Green&dubh.back, a common tomato disorder in which the fruits do not ripen completely but remain green near the stalk."

greening , [vbl. sb.]

(1751) Chambers Cycl. s.v., "If urine, citron-juice, or spirit of vitriol, be cast on a green ribband, it becomes blue; by reason the yellow of the greening-weed is thereby exhaled and consumed; so that nothing but blue remains behind. "

griding , [ppl. a.]

(1782) Elphinston tr. Martial i. xxii. 35 "For brawny necks the griding claw remains. "

grief , [sb.]

(1965) J. Pollitt Depression &. its Treatment ii. 22 "Similarly, in human affairs, bereavement occurring during a depressive illness is not followed by the normal process of forgetting, the patient remaining grief-stricken. "

griffin (1) .

(1818) Scott Hrt. Midl. ix, "The paw remained suspended in the air like the claw of a heraldic griffin. "

grille grill , [sb.]

(1962) K. F. Chapman Stamp Collecting 137 "Grille, a pattern of tiny square dots impressed into the paper of several United States issues with a view to hindering the removal of cancellations. The grille broke the fibres of the paper and permitted the cancelling ink to penetrate the paper instead of remaining on the surface."

grizzle , [v. 2]

(1867) E. Yates Forlorn Hope xxix. 392, "I went abroad, and remained grizzling and feeding on my own heart for months. "

grockle .

(1984) Listener 20 Sept. 23/1 "With the memory of my month in Devon receding, the grockles remain vivid, and the term grows more and more repellent to me. "

groin , [sb. 2]

(1790) Pennant London 87 "On the north outside, beyond the windows, are many marks of recesses, groins, arms, on the remains of some other room. "

gross , [a.] and [sb. 4]

(1802-12) Bentham Rat. Judic. Evid. (1827) IV. 527 "How inconsistent and absurd, to do away the mischief in retail, and, in the very self-same shape, leave it to remain in gross! "

(A. 1682) Sir T. Browne Tracts (1684) 132 "So much still remaineth with us that it maketh the gross of our language. "

ground , [sb.]

(1629) Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 44 "Fulfil with joy the remnant of the grounds and remainders of the afflictions of Christ in your body. "

(1607) Shaks. Cor. iv. i. 51 "While I remaine aboue the ground, you shall Heare from me still. "

(1876) Haygarth's Cricket Scores v. 16 "[G. H. Wright was engaged] on the Bramhall Ground, at Sheffield, where he still remains as *groundkeeper. "

ground-stone

(1591) R. Bruce Serm. (Wodrow Soc.) 298 "It may remain a sure foundation and Ground&dubh.stone to us. "

group , [sb.]

(1962) D. H. Calam in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism Rel. Cataract 439 "At the low pH employed, only strongly acidic groups remain charged, most of the carboxyl groups are unionized."

(1932) Times 12 Feb. 11/1 "The significance of this unique *group-burial must remain a mystery. "

grouseward , [adv.]

(1853) A. H. Clough Lett. &. Rem. (1865) 263 "The Commons are off grousewards, and scarcely anyone remains to ask one to dinner or anything else. "

grout , [sb. 1]

(1624) Capt. Smith Virginia ii. 29 "The groutes and peeces of the cornes remaining, by fanning..away the branne, they boyle 3 or 4 houres with water. "

growth (1) .

(1841-71) T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 453 "Between the shell and the exterior of the body, where they remain until the embryo attains its full growth."

grub , [v.]

(1884) A. Lang in Century Mag. Jan. 325/2 "Grubbing among Roman remains and relics. "

grudging , [vbl. sb.]

(1672) Dryden 2nd Pt. Conq. Granada iv. iii, "The grudging of my ague yet remains. "

Guanche .

(1797) Encycl. Brit. IV. 81/1 "The inhabitants are chiefly Spaniards; though there are some of the first people remaining, whom they call Guanches, who are somewhat civilized by their intercourse with the Spaniards. "

guarantee , [sb.]

(1871) Blackie Four Phases i. 151 "He stood guarantee that I should remain and wait the result of the trial."

guarantee , [v.]

(1931) Economist 24 Jan. 163/1 "The remaining proposals involve the cancellation of the present agreements as to the guaranteed day and guaranteed week, overtime on a daily basis, [etc.]. "

guarantor .

(1893) Gladstone Sp. Ho. Com. 13 Feb., "I want to know..who will be the effective guarantor that this remainder will not also vanish?"

guard , [sb.]

(1874) Rifle Exerc., etc. 40 "Seize the guard with the forefinger and thumb of the right hand..the remaining fingers under the hammer."

(1960) M. S. Kiver F-M Simplified (ed. 3) i. 8 "Each station..is assigned a bandwidth of 200 kc. Of this 200-kc bandwidth, 150 (&pm.75) kc is to be employed for the modulation and the remaining 50 (&pm.25) kc is to function as a guardband. "

guardianship .

(A. 1715) Burnet Own Time (1724) I. 809 "In the case of lunaticks, the right still remained in him: Only the guardianship, or the exercise of it, was to be lodged with a Prince Regent. "

guarding , [ppl. a.]

(1897) Mary Kingsley W. Africa 176 "The Adoomas left and fled to the French authority at Njole and remained under its guarding shadow until the French came up and chastised the Fans."

guard-ship (2) guardship .

(1833) Marryat P. Simple (1863) 86, "I was sent on board of the guard-ship, where I remained about ten days, and then was sent round to join this frigate. "

guestwise [sb.] and [adv.]

(1590) Shaks. Mids. N. iii. ii. 171 "My heart to her, but as guest-wise soiourn'd, And now to Helen it is home return'd, There to remaine. "

guide , [sb.]

(1605) Verstegan Dec. Intell. v. (1628) 137 "There remaines yet a tole called *Guid-law, which is paid for cattell at Bowdumbar, a Gate of the City so called, and was first granted for the payment of guides. "

guiding , [ppl. a.]

(1897) A. H. Miles Concise Knowl. Astron. ii. xv. 195 "In the guiding telescope are two spider threads at right angles to each other, and it is by constantly keeping the image of a star at the intersection of these `wires' that the operator ensures the images remaining in a constant position upon the sensitive plate. "

guillotining , [vbl. sb.]

(1893) Times 1 June 9/5 "Cutting short the discussion on..the remaining clauses of the Bill by what is known as the `guillotining' process."

guilt , [sb.]

(1899) E. M. Aveling tr. Marx's Secret Diplomatic Hist. 18th Cent. v. 74 "Whether we consider her [sc. Russia's] power..as the mere vision of the *guilt-stricken consciences of the European peoples-the question remains the same."

gulf , [sb.]

(1566) Adlington Apuleius 51 "Whether thou wilt remaine with the serpent and in the ende to be swallowed up into the gowlfe of his bodie. "

Gullah .

(1908) S. Atlantic Q., Oct. 339 "To some Gullah remains a closed book. "

gum , [sb. 2]

(1841) Brande Chem. 1078 "When the solutions are evaporated, uncrystallizable *gum-like compounds remain. "

gum [sb. 5]

(1558) Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. 13 b, "A verie goodly secrete for the gommes [It. gomme] or burgeons that remaine of the great Pockes. "

gun , [sb.]

(1966) B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 41 "Mrs. Lutaya's set absolutely refused to accept this high-handed ruling, preferring to remain large fish in their own small pond, rather than compete with the big guns of Gumbi and Male villages."

(1833) J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 105 "A *gun-breeching till of late years, was what it still remains in muskets used in the army, simply a plug screwed into the end of the barrel. "

(1969) Australian 7 June 2/7 "Other RAAF gunships remained overhead until the crew were lifted out. "

Gupta , [a.] and [sb.]

(1880) Encycl. Brit. XIII. 120/2 "All the Gupta inscriptions are dated in the Gupta-k&aacu.la, the Gupta era, the epoch of which has long been and still remains a subject of dispute. "

gut , [sb.]

(1937) G. Orwell England Your England (1953) 191 "It is brought home to you, at least while you are watching, that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior. "

gutter , [sb. 1]

(1887) H. H. Howorth Mammoth &. Flood 372 "Numerous remains of vegetation, we are told, occur in the *gutter-drift in Victoria. "

gutty , [sb.]

(1924) C. J. H. Tolley Mod. Golfer 64 "Thousands to-day would not be playing the game if the `gutty' ball remained the official ball of to-day."

guvacine .

(1946) Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. LXVIII. 1053/1 "The white solid remaining undissolved..was guvacine hydrochloride. "

guy , [sb. 1]

(1928) Daily Express 7 Apr. 5/5 "Drive in the remaining pegs and attach and true up the remaining guylines. "

gymnic , [a.] and [sb.]

(1846) Grote Greece i. iv. (1862) I. 76 "The remaining daughters..were given in marriage to the victors in a gymnic contest. "

gyppie gypo gyppy

(1916) Anzac Book 138 "And it came to pass that while they yet warmed their hands there was heard a mighty crash, and of the `Gyppies' that remained were picked up seven stretchers full. "

gyroscope .

(1857) Chambers's Jrnl. 30 May 351/2 "To overcome it [sc. rolling and pitching]..the professor invented a balanced frame, with free axes for rotation, somewhat on the principle of the gyroscope, which..remains uninfluenced by the..movements of the ship. "

hacendado .

(1897) Blackw. Mag. Nov. 685 "The polity of the Mexican haciendado remains unchanged. "

hack , [v. 1]

(1864) Blackheathen 9/1 "`Hacking first man up'..remains at present quite a Rugby rule. "

(A. 1682) Sir T. Browne Tracts 133 "Present Parisians can hardly hack out those few lines of the league between Charles and Lewis..yet remaining in old French."

haematoxylin hem- .

(1882) Vines Sach's Bot. 947 "The net-work readily stains with h&ae.matoxylin, but the fluid remains colourless."

hag [sb. 3]

(1816) R. Kerr Agric. Surv. Berwicksh. 334 (Jam.) "Remains of ancient oak forests..which have grown into a kind of copse, or what is termed in Scotland hag woods. "

hair , [sb.]

(1583) Hollyband Campo di Fior 335 "There will alwayes remaine some heare in the cliffe of the penne."

half , [adv.]

(1818) Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. v. 494 "From half after seven..they remained exposed to the fire..till nine o'clock. "

half- in

(1834) Ht. Martineau Farrers ii. 25 "Two out of the remaining four halfstarted from their chair. "

half-way halfway , [adv.] , [adj.] , [sb.] , and [prep.]

(1938) Times 25 May 17/3 "He shows how much remains to be done before the standard of life of the West Indian labourer and of the West Indian peasant is raised to a level which can be regarded as halfway tolerable. "

hall (1) .

(1874) Parker Goth. Archit. i. iii. 89 "Part of the great Norman hall remains, now converted into the servants' hall."

hallage .

(1678) Act of Common-Council, London B j a, "All sorts of Broad..Cloths..brought unto, pitched, and harboured in Blackwell-Hall..there to remain till..the Duties of Hallage herein after-mentioned also [be] paid. "

hallier (2)

(1587) Harrison England ii. ii. (1877) i. 87 "The students also that remaine in them [Oxford hostels or halls] are called hostelers or halliers."

halter , [sb. 1]

(1835) Lytton Rienzi v. v, "The horse runs from one hand, the halter remains in the other."

halve , [v.]

(1857) Chambers' Inform. II. 693/1 "When players are very equally matched, neither party has, at the close of a day's play, gained an advantage; every round has been halved, hence the match itself is halved, and remains to be played another day. "

ham , [sb. 1] ( [a.] )

(1941) M. Allingham Traitor's Purse xii. 133 "Campion's thin hands remained expressionless and Lugg's great ham-fists did not stir. "

hanaper .

(1536) Statutes Irel. 28 Hen. VIII (Bolton, 1621, 108) "The writings obligatorie or money taken for the same shall rest, remaine, and abide in the hands of the underthesaurer, or in the Hanaper of the kings Chauncerie in Ireland. "

handcraft

(1965) Punch 3 Nov. 645/3 "The stone, being hand-crafted and set, remained in place for more than a month before it was washed away in a rain&dubh.storm. "

hand-grenade .

(1882) Standard 25 Aug. 3/7 "[They] remained on the camp side of the river, escalading, hand grenading, and double lock bridge building. "

hand-hoe [v.] [trans.]

(1744-50) W. Ellis Mod. Husb. IV. i. 15 "This Machine..will..fit the remaining Turneps for Hand-houghing. "

handsel hansel , [sb.]

(1573) Twyne &Ae.neid xi. Gg iij, "Here now remaine the spoiles, and hansell, of the hautie kinge [de rege superbo Primiti&ae.] Mezentius loe here lies. "

hang-over hangover .

(1930) L. Denny Amer. conquers Brit. 9 "That easily inspired hatred of Germany remained as a hang-over in America long after it had been thrown over by the British. "

haptophore , [a.] (and [sb.] )

(1938) W. Bulloch Hist. Bacteriol. xi. 275 "Of the two, the haptophore is the more stable. Ehrlich considered that the toxophoric atom group can deteriorate to a non-toxic state although the haptophoric group may at the same time remain unchanged. "

hard , [a.] ( [sb.] )

(1886) R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log iv. 64 " Well-known sheltered beaches, or `common hards', as they were called. These hards still remain in old seaports. "

hard and fast [a.]

(1895) Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiog. iv. (1896) 80 "Finding the ship hard and fast, he had nothing for it but to remain quietly on board."

hard-boiled [a.]

(1942) Mind LI. 274 "It certainly is difficult to remain a stoic or a cynic, to be `hard-boiled', for a long time. "

hard by [prep.] and [adv.]

(1849) Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 628 "Hard by the remains of Monmouth were laid the remains of Jeffreys."

(1717) Berkeley Tour in Italy 19 Jan. Wks. 1871 IV. 527 "Hard by we saw the remains of the circus of Sallustius. "

harnessed , [ppl. a.]

(1960) Times (Nigeria Suppl.) 29 Sept. p. xxi/4 "The bushbuck, also called harnessed antelope from the pattern of white stripes on its coat, remains widespread."

harrow haro , [int.]

(1862) Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xxiii. (ed. 2) 539 "Encroachments on property are sometimes met by a very peculiar exclamatory appeal, called `Ha! Ro!' repeated thrice. It is considered to be the remains of an old appeal to Rollo, Duke of Normandy, and is followed by action."

hart .

(1851) Dict. Archit., "*Hart's Black, that substance remaining..after the spirits, volatile salt and oil, have been extracted from hartshorn..when..levigated it answers the purpose of painters nearly as well as ivory black. "

hartebeest hartbeest .

(1824) Burchell Trav. II. 99 "One of our party fell in with the fresh remains of a kaama or hartebeest. "

hash , [sb. 1]

(1678) R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. (1702) 510 "They are only Hache, made up of the Fragments that remain'd. "

hatchling .

(1955) Sci. Amer. Oct. 98/3 "It is curious that, although the young hatchling in the nest is in great hazard of its life, once it has begun to fly it is extremely unlikely to be lost during the remainder of the dependence period. "

Hattic , [a.]

(1926) D. G. Hogarth Kings of Hittites 8 "Have any remains been revealed which manifestly are Cappadocian Hattic, wholly or in part? "

hattock

(1879) Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., "Hattocks, sheaves of corn inverted over the `mow' to protect it from wet. The two end sheaves of the `mow', which consists of eight sheaves, are taken as hattocks for the remaining six. "

have , [v.]

(1820) Keats Let. 1 Nov. (1931) II. 568, "I should have had her when I was in health, and I should have remained well. "

hawk , [sb. 1]

(1893) Newton Dict. Birds, "Hawk, a word of indefinite meaning, being often used to signify all diurnal Birds-of-Prey which are neither Vultures nor Eagles, and again more exclusively for those of the remainder which are not Buzzards, Falcons, Harriers or Kites."

haze , [sb.]

(1888) Bryce Amer. Commw. III. lxxx. 55 "Nor do their moral and religious impulses remain in the soft haze of self-complacent sentiment."

head , [sb. 1]

(1968) Jazz Monthly Feb. 21/1 "The functional scoring of John's idea, Shorty George and Cherokee was the work of Jimmy Mundy,..the remainder probably being head arrangements. "

(1891) H. Frederick Copperhead (1894) 255 "Reducing what remained of the [pig's] head into small bits, to be seasoned..and then fill other pans as head&dubh.cheese. "

(1620-55) I. Jones Stone-Heng (1725) 40 "There could not possibly be a convenient *Head-height remaining a Passage underneath. "

(1959) J. L. Nayler Dict. Aeronaut. Engin. 128 "Head resistance, a term used for the resistance, or drag at no yaw, of the front part of a projectile, the remainder of the drag being due to skin friction and base drag. "

head-gear .

(1881) Raymond Mining Gloss., "Head-gear, that part of deep-boring apparatus which remains at the surface."

headland .

(1863) Fawcett Pol. Econ. i. vi. 81 "After the centre of the field has been ploughed, the head&dubh.lands will remain to be ploughed separately."

heart , [sb.]

(1918) E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 201 "After a heart-to-heart talk, I induced him to let me remain in the Flying Service. "

(1945) W. S. Churchill Victory (1946) 223 "The decision..remained nevertheless a heart-shaking risk. "

heartland .

(1949) G. Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four ii. 189 "The territory which forms the heartland of each super&dubh.state always remains inviolate. "

heath , [sb.]

(1936) Discovery Jan. 25/1 "Only about 50,000 acres of Breckland remain at the present moment as heathland. "

heather .

(1863) J. G. Baker N. Yorksh. 181 "A considerable extent of the surface yet remains as *heatherland. "

heave , [v.]

(1884) Lady Brassey in Gd. Words Mar. 163/1 "We remained hove-to all the next day."

heaven , [sb.]

(1885) J. L. Davies Soc. Quest. 372 "There must always remain a whole heaven of difference between the position of those who know nothing of nature..and that of those who recognise light and guidance..as coming to men from the living God."

heavenward , [adv.] and [a.]

(1799) Campbell Pleas. Hope ii, "I smile on death, if Heaven-ward Hope remain. "

Hebridean , [a.] and [sb.]

(1897) R. H. Story Apostolic Ministry Scot. Church v. 154 "The beehive cells, the remains of which may still be seen in Eilean Naomh and other Hebridean isles. "

hedonistic [a.]

(1874) Sidgwick Meth. Ethics ii. v. §.4. 156 "The moral pain..would be so great as to render the whole remainder of life hedonistically worthless. "

heel , [sb. 1]

(1879) Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., "Heel, the top crust of a loaf cut off, or the bottom crust remaining."

height , [sb.]

(1704) in B. Church Hist. Philip's War (1867) II. 164 "Carrying the Remainder into Captivity in the heighth of Winter. "

hellish , [a.] ( [adv.] )

(1604) Shaks. Oth. v. ii. 368 "To you, Lord Gouernor, Remaines the Censure of this hellish villaine. "

hemi- , [prefix] .

(1890) W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 44 "According to Loeb, the defect is a dimness of vision (`*hemiamblyopia') in which (however severe) the centres remain the best seeing portions of the retina. "

(1880) Bastian Brain xxv. 547 "In many cases of Hemi-an&ae.sthesia, the viscera remain at least as tender as ever under firm pressure. "

hemi-elytrum .

(1870) Nicholson Zool. 210 "In some of the Hemiptera..the apices [of the anterior wings] remain membranous, and to these the term `hemelytra' is applied. "

hemp , [sb.]

(1753) Chambers Cycl. Supp., s.v., "The remaining plants, which are the female Hemp, called by the farmer Karle-hemp, are to be left till Michaelmas."

hen-peck [sb.]

(1958) Daily Mail 15 July 3/4 "Charmian Eyre..remains disarmingly human at the height of henpeckery."

Hentenian , [a.]

(1902) H. J. White in J. Hastings Dict. Bible IV. 880/2 "The various Hentenian editions remained for some years as the standard text of the Roman Church, but were still private publications. "

hepster .

(1958) Spectator 21 Nov. 702/1 "Yet although jazz seems to have burst out of the locked treasure casket over which an egghead minority of hepsters crooned for so many years, it still remains a curiously unreal cult."

heptarchy .

(1774) Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1775) I. 5 "The inhabitants of Cornwall..remained partly in a state of independence during the Saxon heptarchy. "

here , [adv.]

(1605) Shaks. Macb. iv. iii. 148 "Which often since my heere remaine in England, I haue seene him do."

hereafter , [adv.] ( [a.] , [sb.] )

(1576) Fleming Panopl. Epist. 68 "So would I have you thinke mee to be, at this present, and for ever hereafter to remaine. "

aliHerma .

(1850) Leitch Mü.ller's Anc. Art §.345. 412 "The isolated statue was historically developed from the pillar; the Herma remained as an intermediate step, inasmuch as it placed a human head on a pillar having the proportions of the human form."

heterogeneous , [a.]

(1902) Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 567/2 "In the case of crystalline fusion it is necessary to distinguish two cases, the Homogeneous and the Heterogeneous... In the second case, the solid and liquid phases differ in composition; that of the liquid phase changes continuously, and the temperature does not remain constant during the fusion. "

heterogonic , [a.]

(1924) Nature 20 Dec. 895/1 "Whereas in the male the ratio abdomen-breadth: carapace-breadth remained constant, in the female it increased continuously... P&eacu.zard (1918) has styled the growth of such an organ heterogonic. "

heterotic , [a.]

(1914) Zeitschr. f. induktive Abstammungs- und Vererbungslehre XII. 127 "A highly heterotic plant..because of its unusual vigor may develop branches from buds which in a weaker plant would remain dormant. "

hevea .

(1927) Daily Tel. 11 May 3/4 "The rest would be dug up after the present season, and rubber planted in its stead, as the hevea trees remaining were widely spaced. "

hex , [sb. 1]

(1928) Daily Express 10 Dec. 11/1 "York County's early settlers were Germans, and their present-day descendants still remain under the spell of medieval German necromancy. One of their sacred words is `hex', said to be corrupt German for witch. "

hexagram .

(1863) R. Townsend Mod. Geom. I. 145 "In a hexastigm or hexagram every triangle determined by three points or lines is said to be the opposite of that determined by the remaining three. "

hexaploid , [a.] and [sb.]

(1921) Ann. Bot. XXXV. 185 "The remainder of the tetraploids, the whole of the pentaploids and hexaploids, showed a partial reduction involving fourteen or twenty-eight chromosomes. "

Hezbollah .

(1986) Daily Tel. 23 July 17/8 "The southern suburbs [of Beirut]..remain exclusively controlled by the pro-Iranian Hizbollah (party of God) militia which is totally opposed to the Syrian move. "

hibernal , [a.]

(1646) Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xiii. 225 "[The dog-star] should rather manifest its warming power in the winter, when it remaines conjoyned with the Sun in its Hybernall conversion. "

hickey , [sb.]

(1961) H. B. Jacobson Mass Communications Dict. 163 "Hickey. 1. Slang term for slight tears or rips in wet collodion or stripfilm negatives, or for small `runs' or blemishes in sensitized coatings. 2. A speck on the printing area of an engraving that remains after the etch. Must be routed off. "

hidels

(1517) in Plead. Duchy Lancast. (1896) I. 70, "[60 others, who remained] in Hiddelles [near the said tenement]."

high , [a.] and [sb. 2]

(1927) J. Galsworthy Castles in Spain 169 "A true work of art remains beautiful and living, though an ebb tide of fashion may leave it for the moment high and dry on the beach. "

hill [v. 2]

(1577) B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 62 b, "Set in grounde well covered with..moulde, and afterwarde hilled, and so suffered to remaine al Winter. "

himp [v.]

(1542) Udall Erasm. Apoph. 206 "The deformitee and disfigure of hymping on the one legge..did still remain. "

hinder end hinder-end

(1825) Brockett, "Hinder-ends, refuse of corn-such as remains after it is winnowed. "

hippeastrum .

(1938) A. G. L. Hellyer Your Garden Week by Week 102 "Start the remaining hippeastrum bulbs into growth now. "

hippo .

(1893) Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 65 "Our guide now wished me to remain here that I might look for the hippos."

hippopotamic , [a.]

(1785) J. Douglas Antiq. Earth 9 "These hippopotamic remains being discovered petrified. "

Hirschsprung .

(1949) Lancet 1 Jan. 10/2 "A considerable proportion of cases of megacolon (not being Hirschsprung's disease) remain in the residual `idiopathic' group. "

histo-

(1971) Jrnl. Insect Physiol. XVII. 862 "Approximately 10 per cent of the histochemically identifiable lysosomal phosphatase remains in tissue fragments attached to the silk. "

histogenetic , [a.]

(1885) Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 4002 "Histogenetically, they [connective tissues] are the remains of that..embryonic tissue from which the blood-channels themselves were made."

historiated , [ppl. a.]

(1895) M. R. James Abbey St. Edmund 131 "At Amiens four portions of a like historiated screen remain."

history , [sb.]

(1963) Listener 28 Feb. 384/3 "He [sc. Degas] remains..even when he is no longer a painter of `histories', a profoundly reactionary figure."

hit , [v.]

(1892) Daily News 1 Sept. 4/5 "Yorkshire..in the time remaining..hit off 56 of these for the loss of two batsmen."

Hittorf .

(1909) Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. XXXI. 351 (heading, ) "The ordinary transference number (TH) for concentrated solutions, as obtained by the Hittorf method, is erroneous in cases where the ions are hydrated, since it is calculated on the assumption that the water remains stationary during the passage of the current. "

hoastman .

(1893) Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., "The term hoastman has long ceased to describe the profession of coal-shipper or `engrosser' of the commodities enumerated in the charter of incorporation..The Company of Hoastmen remains simply the premier Incorporated Company of Newcastle, and election to its membership is a much coveted honour."

hobbler (2) .

(1885) Morn. Post Aug., "The men were all paid off, and four hobblers were engaged to perform the necessary work while the vessel remained in port. "

hockelty

(1843) J. H. Greene Expos. Arts Gambling 166 "Hockley, signifies the last card but one, the chance of which the banker claims, and may refuse to let any punter withdraw a card when eight or less remain to be dealt. "

(1895) Manson Sporting Dict. 58 (Faro), "Hock or Hockelty card, the last card remaining in the box, after the deal has been made."

hockly , [sb.]

(1850) Bohn's Hand-bk. Games 337 "Hockly, a Certainty, signifies the last card but one, the chance of which the banker claims, and may refuse to let any punter withdraw a card when eight or less remain to be dealt."

hog , [sb. 1]

(1884) York Herald 26 Aug. 7/3 "The trade in wool remains firm..all hog made from 11s. to 12s. 3d. per stone."

hog , [v. 1]

(1772-84) Cook Voy. (1790) V. 1726 "Remaining part some&dubh.what resembled the crest of their caps, or that which, in horses manes, is called hogging. "

Holbein .

(1931) A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs &. Carpets vi. 146 "The oldest group of rugs remaining to us of the weavings of the Ottoman Turks..are the fifteenth-century products now handsomely called Holbein rugs in compliment to Hans Holbein the Younger. "

hold , [v.]

(1880) A. Brown New Law Dict. (ed. 2), "Holding over, this is the phrase commonly used to denote that a tenant remains in possession of lands or houses after the determination of his term therein."

holding , [vbl. sb.]

(1958) Chambers's Techn. Dict. 985/1 "Holding pattern, a specified flight track..which an aircraft may be required to maintain about a holding point. Holding point, an identifiable point, such as a radio beacon, in the vicinity of which an aircraft under air traffic control may be instructed to remain. "

hollow , [a.] and [adv.]

(1706) Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Tower, "*Hollow Tower (in Fortif.), a Rounding made of the remainder of two Brisures, to joyn the Courtin to the Orillon; where the Small-Shot are plac'd that they may not be too much expos'd to the Enemies View. "

holocaust , [sb.]

(A. 1711) Ken Anodynes Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 477 "While I thy Holocaust remain. "

home , [sb. 1] and [a.]

(1874) Green Short Hist. vii. §.5. 386 "The South and the West still remained..the great homes of mining and manufacturing activity. "

(1853) Mrs. Gaskell Ruth III. viii. 230 "Leonard's remaining such a home-bird..with such a mother..will do him no harm. "

homestead , [sb.]

(1693) Providence (R.I.) Rec. (1893) IV. 92 "We..have..sold..all the remaining part of our home stead or house lott. "

hominy .

(1672) Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 101 "They beat the corn in a mortar and sift the flower out of it: the remainder they call Homminey. "

homo-

(1956) Nature 17 Mar. 529/2 "These thoracic responses also remained when the major portion of the homolateral corpora pedunculata was removed. "

(1959) P. B. Medawar in L. A. Peer Transplantation of Tissues II. ii. 41 "Homovital grafts start alive and..remain so, but homostatic grafts are progressively revitalized by the tissues of their hosts."

homocentric , [a.] and [sb.]

(1886) C. M. Culver tr. Landolt's Refraction &. Accommodation of Eye i. 13 "In order that the homocentric rays may remain homocentric, the surface must have such a form that the angles of incidence shall be everywhere the same. "

homoeo-

(1896) E. B. Wilson Cell ix. 305 "Mitotic division is conceived [by Weismann] as an apparatus which may distribute the elements of the chromatin to the daughter nuclei either equally or unequally. In the former case (`hom&oe.okinesis', integral or quantitative division), the resulting nuclei remain precisely equivalent. "

homonomy .

(1888) Rolleston &. Jackson Anim. Life 147 "The larva..has a somewhat vermiform appearance owing to the great homonomy or similarity of the remaining somites."

homonymous , [a.]

(1876) Douse Grimm's L. §.17. 34 "The meanings of the several primitives are in general so widely different that the homonymous derivatives remain to all time clearly distinguished in use."

homotypic , [a.]

(1931) W. C. Allee Animal Aggregations i. 15 "Homotypical associations consist of members of the same species which have arisen either sexually or asexually, which may have remained together because they are the offspring of the same parent, or which may have become accidentally associated together although of different parentage."

homozygote .

(1949) Darlington &. Mather Elem. Genetics xiii. 279 "The homozygotic potential will remain as such so long as cross-breeding is absent or at least restricted to like homozygotes. "

(1957) C. H. Waddington Strategy of Genes ii. 48 "Further, gene-fixation and the passage to homozygosity, will be still more delayed if the environment does not remain perfectly uniform. "

honour honor , [sb.]

(1853) Stocqueler Mil. Dict. s.v., "In another sense, the `honours of war' signifyeth compliments which are paid to great personages, military characters, etc., when they appear before any armed body of men; or such as are given to the remains of a deceased officer.-Military Honours, are salutations to crowned heads and officers of rank, by dropping colours and standards, officers saluting, bands playing, artillery discharging salvoes, etc. "

honourable honorable , [a.] ( [sb.] , [adv.] )

(1675) tr. Machiavelli's Prince vi. (1883) 41 "They remain..honourable and happy."

hood , [sb. 1]

(1887) S. Chesh. Gloss. s.v., "The two end sheaves of the hattock are used as hoods for the remaining six. "

hook-up .

(1922) L. D. Brigham How to make Vacuum Wireless Receiving Sets 39 "The remainder of the hook-up is just like the other amplifier hook-ups. "

hope , [v.]

(1676) Dryden Aurengz. iv. i, "Strange cozenage! none would live past years again; Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain. "

horizon , [sb.]

(1959) J. D. Clark Prehist. S. Afr. iv. 90 "Nitrogen tests confirm that the remains are contemporary with the horizon in which they were found. "

horizontal , [a.] ( [sb.] )

(1931) H. G. Wells Work, Wealth &. Happiness of Mankind (1932) xi. 540 "The only remaining physical differences between man and woman are becoming horizontal, i.e., differences between individuals in the same class, and not vertical differences, in which all women are put below all men, or vice versa. "

horse , [sb.]

(1788) Grose Milit. Antiq. II. 200 "The remains of a wooden horse was standing on the parade at Portsmouth, about the year 1760. "

(1958) Listener 7 Aug. 207/1 "Keats' letters remain the horse's mouth. "

horsepower

(1968) R. H. Bacon Car ii. 17 "The power developed in the cylinder..is called the indicated horsepower or i.h.p. Some of this power is absorbed by the friction of various parts of the engine. The power remaining, that is the power that can be used for work, is called the brake horsepower or b.h.p. "

horst