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Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.

biting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.

The fossil remains of a bird.

To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.

To stand out, or project, from a surface or mass; hence, to remain standing out.

That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus. Shak. "The overplus of a great fortune." Addison.

aleolithic era (as proposed by Lubbock) includes the earlier half of the "Stone Age;" the remains belonging to it are for the most part of extinct animals, with relics of human beings.

Of or pertaining to the description of fossil remains.

The description of fossil remains.

The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, or of fossils which are the remains of such life.

human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.

e in position of an object as seen separately by one eye, and then by the other, the head remaining unmoved. -- Diurnal, or Geocentric, parallax, the parallax of a body with reference to the earth's center. This is the kind of parallax that is generally understood when the term is used without qualification. -- Helio…

, as to an observer at either pole. -- Parallel vise, a vise having jaws so guided as to remain parallel in all positions.

A vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel.

The property of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own.

ontaining a part only; limited; as, a particular estate, or one precedent to an estate in remainder.

ed with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); also, the plant itself. -- Partridge dove (Zoöl.) Same as Mountain witch, under Mountain. -- Partridge pea (Bot.), a…

tic divines, a suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of grace. -- Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in Engl…

The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia. Cheyne.

A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands. Four other gentlemen of quality remained mentioned in that patent. Fuller.