rely 
reliar = Sp. Pg. religar = It. rilegare, fasten 
again, bind again, < L. religare, bind back, 
bind fast, fasten, moor (a ship), etc., < re-, 
back, again, + ligare, bind: see ligament. Cf. 
ally 1 and rally 1 . The verb rely, in the orig. 
sense 'fasten, fix, attach,' came to be used with 
a special reference to attaching one's faith or 
oneself to a person or thing (cf . ' to pin one's 
faith to a thing,' ' a man to tie to,' colloquial 
phrases containing the same figure) ; in this 
use it became, by omission of the object, in- 
transitive, and, losing thus its etymological 
associations (the other use, ' bring together 
again, rally,' having also become obsolete), was 
sometimes regarded, and has been by some 
etymologists actually explained, as a barba- 
rous compound of re- + E. lie 1 , rest, whence ap- 
par. the occasional physical use (def. II., 3). 
But the pret. would then have been "relay, pp. 
"relain.] I. tram. If. To fasten; fix; attach. 
Therefore [they] must needs relye their faithe upon the 
Billie Ministers faithlesse fldelitie. 
H. T., in Anthony Wotton's Answer to a Popish Pamphlet, 
[etc. (1G05X p. 19, quoted in F. Hall's Adjectives in -able, 
(p. 159. 
Let us now consider whether, by our former description 
of the first age, it may appeare whereon these great ad- 
mirers and contemners of antiquitie rest and rely them- 
selves. A World of Wonders (1607), p. 21, quoted In F. 
[Hall's Adjectives in -able, p. 160. 
No faith her husband doth In her relie. 
Breton (1), Cornucopia) (16121 p. 96, quoted in F. Hall's 
[Adjectives In -able, p. 160. 
2f. To bring together again ; assemble again ; 
rally. 
retrius, that was a noble knyght and bolde and hardy, 
relied his peple a-boute hym. Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), ill. 654. 
3. To polish. Coles; Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
II. intrans. 1 . To attach one's faith to a per- 
son or thing; fix one's confidence; rest with 
confidence, as upon the veracity, integrity, or 
ability of another, or upon the certainty of 
facts or of evidence; have confidence; trust; 
depend: used with on or upon, formerly also 
with in and to. Compare reliable. 
Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and not 
relied on the Lord thy God, therefore is the host of the 
king of Syria escaped out of thine hand. 2 Chron. xvi. 7. 
Bade me rely on him as on my father. 
SAa*., Blch. III., ii. 2. 25. 
It is a like error to rely upon advocates or lawyers, which 
are only men of practice, and not grounded in their books. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 17. 
Instead of apologies and captation of good will, he 
[Paul] relies to this fort [a good conscience]. 
Rev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 107. 
We also reverence the Martyrs, but relye only upon the 
Scriptures. Milton, Apology for Smectymnuus. 
2f. To assemble again ; rally. 
Thus relyed Lyf for a litel [good] fortune, 
And pryked forth with Pryde. 
Piers Plowman (B), xx. 147. 
Whan these saugh hem comynge the! relien and closed 
hem to-geder, and lete renne at the meyne of Pounce An- 
to nye. Merlin(E. E. T. S.), ill. 393. 
3f. To rest, in a physical sense ; recline ; lean. 
Ah se how His most holy Hand relies 
Vpon His knees to vnder-prop His charge. 
Dames, Holy Roode, p. 15. (Dames.) 
It [the elephant] sleepeth against a tree, which the 
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If she depart, let her remain unmarried. 1 Cor. vii. 11. 
Great and active minds cannot remain at rest. 
ilacaulay, Dante. 
3. To endure; continue; last. 
They shall perish; but thou remained ; . . . thy years 
shall not fail. Heb. 1. 11, 12. 
4. To stay behind after others have gone ; be 
left after a part, quantity, or number nas been 
taken away or destroyed. 
And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the 
sword, and they that remain shall be scattered. 
Ezek. xvli. 21. 
Hitherto 
I have liv'd a servant to ambitious thoughts 
And fading glories : what remains of life 
I dedicate to Virtue. 
Fletcher and another (?), Prophetess, Iv. 6. 
Shrine of the mighty ! can It be 
That this is all remains of thee? 
Byron, The Giaour, 1. 107. 
remanence 
but by livery of seizin, a person who wished to give to an- 
other a future estate was obliged to create at the same 
time an intermediate estate commenting immediately, and 
he could limit this temporary estate by ihe event which 
he wished to fix for the commencement of the ultimate es- 
tate, which was hence called the remainder that is, what 
remained after the precedent or particular estate and 
was said to be supported by the precedent or particular 
estate. (See particular estate and executory estate, both 
under estate.) A remainder is vetted when the event which 
will terminate the precedent estate Is certain to happen, 
and the person designated to take in remainder is in exis- 
tence. The fact that the person may not survive to enjoy 
the estate, or that others may come into existence who 
will also answer the designation and therefore be entitled 
to share it with him, does not prevent the remainder from 
being deemed vested meanwhile. 
With Julius Caesar, Decimus Brutus had obtained that 
interest, as he set him down in his, testament for heir in 
remainder after his nephew. Bacon, Friendship (ed. 1887). 
4. In the publishing trade, that which remains 
of an edition the sale of which has practically 
5. To be left as not included or comprised ; be ceased, and which is sold out at a reduced price, 
held in reserve ; be still to be dealt with : for- - - 
merly followed in some instances by a dative. 
And such end, perdie, does all hem remayne 
That of such falsers freendship bene fayne. 
Spenser, Shep. CaL, May. 
Norfolk, for thee remain* a heavier doom. 
5Aa*.,KIch. II., I. 3. 148. 
The easier conquest now 
Remaint thee. Milton, P. L., vl. 38. 
That a father may have some power over liis children is 
easily granted ; but that an elder brother has so over his 
brethren remains to be proved. Locke. 
Remaining velocity. See velocity. =Syn. 1. To wait, 
tarry, rest, sojourn. 2. To keep, 
remain (re-man'), n. [< remain, v.] If. The 
state of remaining ; stay; abode. 
A most miraculous work in this good king, 
Which often, since my here-remofn in England, 
I have seen him do. Shot., Macbeth, Iv. a 148. 
2f. That which is left to be done. 
I know your master's pleasure and he mine ; 
All the remain is " Welcome ! " 
Shale., Cymbeline, Ul. 1. 87. 
3. That which is left; remainder; relic: used 
chiefly in the plural. 
Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock. 
Shalc.,i. C., v. 5. 1. 
Among the remains of old Rome the grandeur of the 
commonwealth shows itself chiefly in works that were 
either necessary or convenient 
In 1843 he felt strong enough to start as a publisher in 
Soho Square, his main dealings before this having been in 
remainders, and his one solitary publication a failure. 
Atheneewm, No. 8181, p. 850. 
Contingent remainder, in law, a remainder which Is 
not vested. The epithets contingent and vested are, how- 
ever, often loosely used to indicate the distinction between 
remainders of which the enjoyment is In any way contin- 
gent and others. Cross remainder, in law, that state 
of affairs in which each of two grantees or devisees has re- 
ciprocally a remainder In the property In which a partic- 
ular estate is given to the other. Thus, if land be devised, 
one half to A for life with remainder to B in fee simple, 
and the other half to B for life with remainder to A in 
fee simple, these remainders are called cross remainders. 
Cross remainders arise on a grant to two or more as ten- 
ants in common, a particular estate being limited to each 
of the grantees in his share, with remainders to the other 
or others of them. = Syn. 1. Rest, Remainder, Remnant, 
Residue, Balance. Rest Is the most general term ; it may 
represent a large or a small part. Remainder and residue 
generally represent a comparatively small part, and rem- 
nant & part not only very small, but of little or no account. 
Rest may be applied to persons as freely as to things ; re- 
mainder and residue only to things ; but we may speak of 
the remainder of a party. Remnant and residue are favor- 
ite words in the Bible forrwt or remainder, as in Mat. xxii. 
6 and Isa. rxi. 17, but such use of them in application to 
persons is now antique. Balance cannot, literally or by 
legitimate figure, be used lor rest or remainder : we say Ihe 
balance of the time, week, space, party, money. It is a 
cant word of trade. 
Il.t a. fiemaining; refuse; left. 
As dry as the remainder biscuit 
After a voyage. Shak. , As you Like it, ii. 7. 39. 
as respectable as would be a common ditch for the drain- 
of 
Addition, Remarks on Italy, Rome. 
Their small remain of life. Pope, remainder-man (ro-man'der-mau), n. In lair, 
Of labour on the large scale, I think there is no remain one wno has an estate after a particular estate 
is determined. 
emainer (re-ma'ner), n. 1. One who remains. 
Jefferson, Notes on Virginia (1787), p. 156. ~ 2t : Same as remainder, 2. 
remake (re-mak'), v. t. [< re- + motel.] To 
make anew; reconstruct. 
My business is not to remake myself. 
But make the absolute best of what God made. 
Browning, Bishop Blougram's Apology. 
Remak's fibers. See nen-e-fibcr. 
Specifically 4. pi. That which is left of a hu- 
man being after life is gone; a dead body; a 
corpse. 
Be kind to my remains; and oh, defend, 
Against your judgment, your departed friend ! 
Dryden, To Congreve, 1. 72. 
A woman or two, and three or four undertaker's men, Emanation (re-ma-na'shpn), n. [< L. reimuia- 
Hunters observing doe saw almost asunder; whereon the - jj -- - - 
beast relyiny, by the fall of the tree falls also down Itselfe remainder (re-man'der), n. and a. 
is able to rise no more maindre, inf. used as a noun : see remain.] I 
me, Psmd. Epid., i!L l. n . i. That which remains; anything left after 
had charge of the remains, which they watched turn 
about Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xli. 
5. pi. The productions, especially the literary 
works, of one who is dead ; posthumous works : 
as, "Coleridge's Literary Remains." Fossil re- 
mains, fossils. See fossil. Organic remains Seeor- 
ganic. = Syu. 3. Scraps, fragments. 3-6. See relic. 
[< OF. re- 
relyeM, *. See 
relye 2 t, v. t. [ME. relyen, a reduced form of 
releven, E. relieve; cf. reprie, similarly related 
to reprieve.] To raise ; elevate. 
To life ayin lykynge that lorde the relyede. 
Religious Pieces, etc., edited by the Rev. G. H. Perry (18671 
[p. 87, quoted in F. Hall's Adjectives in -able, p. 159. 
remain (re-man'), v. i. [Early mod. E. remayne ; 
< OF. remaindre (ind. res. imers. il re 
the separation, removal, destruction, or pass- 
ing of a part. 
As much as one sound cudgel of four foot 
You see the poor remainder could distribute, 
I made no spare, sir. Shale., Hen. VIII., v. 4. 20. 
What madness moves you, matrons, to destroy 
The last remainders of unhappy Troy? 
Dryden, .-Eneid, v. 
remaindre (ind. pres. impers. il remaint, 2. In math., the sum or quantity left after sub- The e ^ lcal wri ^ r '.' not li . kel >' ' 
it remains) = Pr. remandre, retainer, remaner traction or after any deduction ; also, the part propei ' the analyf " 8 of c " Bclen ' e ; 
- Oop. remaner = It. rimanere (cf. mod. Pg. remaining over after division : thus, if 19 be 
Sp. remanecer, remain), < L. remanere, remain, divided by 4, the remainder is 3, because 19 is 
<^n!-, behind, back, +jnanere, remain^ = Gr. three more than an exact multiple of 4. In the 
old arithmetics called the remainer. 3. In law, 
a future estate so created as to take effect in 
ptvem, remain, stay. From the same L. verb 
(manere) are also ult.E. mansei, mansion, manor, 
etc., menage*, menial, immanent, permanent re- 
manent, remnant.] 1. To continue in a place ; 
stay; abide; dwell. 
He should have remained in the city of his refuge. 
Num. xxxv. 28. 
You dined at home ; 
Where would you had remain'd until this time \ 
Shak., C. of E., iv. 4. 69. 
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray 
Goldsmith, Des. Vil., 1. 180. 
2. To continue without change as to some 
form, state, or quality specified: as, to remain 
active in business ; to remain a widow. 
tus, pp. of remaaare, flow back, < re-, back, + 
manure, flow: see emanation.'} The act of re- 
turning, as to its source; the state of being 
reabsorbed ; reabsorption. [Rare.] 
[Buddhism's] pantheistic doctrine of emanation nnd re- 
manation. MacmiUan's Mag. 
remand (re-mand'), v. t. [< late ME. reman- 
den, < OF. remander, send for again, F. reman- 
der = Sp. remandar, order several times, = It. 
rimandare, < L. rcmandare, send back word, < 
re-, back, + mandare, enjoin, send word : see 
mandate.] 1. To send, call, or order back: as, 
to remand an officer from a distant place. 
When a prisoner first leaves his cell he cannot bear the 
light of day. . . . But the remedy is, not to remand him 
into his dungeon, but to accustom him to the rays of Ihe 
sun. Macaulay, Milton. 
The ethical writer is not likely toremand to Psychology 
Bain, Mind, XIII. 636. 
fusing his application to be discharged, or a 
cause from an appellate court to the court of 
original jurisdiction. 
(re-mand'), n. [< remand, v.] The 
state of being remanded, recommitted, or held 
over ; the act of remanding. 
He will probably apply for a series of remandstrom time 
to time, until the case is more r 
nant of an estate in land, depending upon a par- 
ticular prior estate, created at the same time, 
and by the same instrument, and limited to 
arise immediately on the determination of that 
estate. ( Kent. ) It is thus distinguished from a rever- 
sion, which is the estate which by operation of law arises Lnckens, Bleak House, ui. 
"i the grantor or his heirs when a limited estate created remandment (re-mand'ment), . [< remand + 
without creating also a remainder comes to an end ; and -mcnt ] The act of remaiidine 
^^^^^^^^S^^S. remanence (rem'a-nens) . T< remanenW + 
ruination of which it is to commence in possession. At ~ ce -J 1. The state or quality of being remanent; 
the time when by the common law no grant could be made continuance ; permanence! 
