Dictionary entry

Residuum

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Re‐sid″u‐um (–?m), n. [L. See Residue.] That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.

“I think so,” is the whole residuum... after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot demagogue. L. Taylor.