Word Meanings - REMAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.

• After-image
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• After-wit
  Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
• Includible
  Capable of being included.
• Subtracted
  of Subtract
• Withdrawment
  The act of withdrawing; withdrawal.
• Afterings
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
• After-witted
  Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
• Subtracting
  of Subtract
• AFTERDAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• Aftermath
  A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
• Numbered
  of Number
• Subtract
  To withdraw, or take away, as a part from the whole; to deduct; as, subtract 5 from 9, and the remainder is 4.
• AFTERDINNER
  The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. [Obs.] -- a.
• Afterbirth
  The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.
• After-mentioned
  Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).
• Behindhand
  In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
• Numbering
  of Number

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