† reˈmainant, a. and n. Obs.
Also 5 remaynand(e, Sc. ra-), 6 remeynant, -maynent.
[Alteration of remenant, after prec., or f. prec. + -ant.]
Remaining; remainder; pl. remains.
| 1438–9 E.E. Wills (1882) 130 The remaynande of the torgis to x of the nedyest paryschirches. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 269 To fornys the remaynand of the bataill. c 1470 Henry Wallace iii. 401 The ramaynand agayne turnyt that tide. 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. xxiv. (1539) 48 Rygge all the remeynant upwarde. ? 1577 Conuersion Sinner 5 b, So muche as is remaynent of their mortal life. 1632 Lithgow Trav. i. 16 The remainants of that auncient Amphitheatre. 1658 Virginia Stat. (1823) I. 466 To the great prejudice and damage to their neighbours and the loss of the remainants cattell. |