Re‐main″n. 1. State of remaining; stay.
Which often, since my here remain in England,
I 've seen him do. Shak.
2. That which is left; relic; remainder; — chiefly in the plural. “The remains of old Rome.” Addison.
When this remain of horror has entirely subsided. Burke.
3. Specif., in the plural: (a) That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
Old warriors whose adored remains
In weeping vaults her hallowed earth contains! Pope.
(b) The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's Remains.