residuum
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The bed looked like the residuum of a lost weekend, yet it also intimated that the bed’s occupant felt herself to be lost, too.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2015
And as still men and panel men anxiously watched the gauges, the vaporized residuum was forced through the macaroni-shaped catalyst of silica and alumina.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty."
From Time Magazine Archive
Stanzas of final peace Lie in the heart's residuum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Enraged by the attitude of Pitt, which was grounded on the support of the constituencies as they then stood, the residuum plotted an ill-timed agitation for parliamentary reform.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
These residua are all black and glossy like common pitch, which differs from them only in having been less acted upon by fire, and thence in being softer.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
It is the residua of these experiences that have persisted and become associated into complexes which are retained as traits of our personality.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
Again he says, "The more things we try to explain, the better we realize that we live in a world of unexplained residua."
From Studies in the Life of the Christian by Henry T. (Henry Thorne) Sell
It is well, however, to place the closed apparatus in water, in order that the residua that have entered the threads of the screw may become detached, and that the apparatus may be opened easily.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 by Various
The former, however, is now seldom to be met with, the varieties employed on the palette being the residua of various resinous and bituminous matters, distilled for the sake of their essential oils.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
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