▪ I. † reˈmainer1 Obs.
Also 5 remaner, 5–6 remayner, 7 remainor.
[a. ONF. remaneir, = OF. remanoir inf.: see remain v. and -er4.]
1. Law. a. ? = remanet 2 a. rare—1.
| 1454 Paston Lett. I. 294 Mastere Pownyngs hath day tille the next terme by a remayner. |
b. = remainder n.1 1.
| 1473 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 75/2 Nor to oure seid moost derest Wife, nor to her heires or assignes, in, to, or for the remaner..of the premisses. 1520 Sir R. Elyot Will in Elyot's Gov. (1883) App. A, Notwithstanding the said entailles and remayners afore declared. |
2. = remainder n. 4 a.
| 1542 Recorde Gr. Artes (1575) 96 The Remayner is a sum left after a due Subtraction made. 1588 J. Mellis Arith. S iij b, I haue herein alwaies driuen my remayners (or broken partes) into whole numbers. 1669 Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vi. iii. 106 The Sun enters Gemini May 11; which Substract from 12, the Remainer is 1. |
3. = remainder n.1 2 b.
| 1617 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., The remainor [of the money is] in the boxe. a 1625 Fletcher, etc. Fair Maid Inn iii. ii, The lesse remainer Is dowry large enough. 1644 Nye Gunnery ii. (1647) 23 From which stick cut off its just length, the remainer you may use upon the base ring. |
▪ II. reˈmainer2 rare.
[f. remain v. + -er1.]
One who remains or stays.
| 1565 T. Stapleton Fortr. Faith 16, I wil be a remainer in thy tabernacle for euer. 1637 in Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 79 Ane daylie remainer fra the Kirk in tyme of dyvyne worschip. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 688 How did the centripetal remainer afford egress to the centrifugal departer? |