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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."
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