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.-to continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.-to await; to be left to.-state of remaining; stay.-that which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.-that which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.-the posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, cecil's