Dictionary entry

Remain (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.