1. Verb
To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
2. Verb
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
3. Verb
To await; to be left to.
4. Noun
State of remaining; stay.
5. Noun
That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
6. Noun
That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
7. Noun
The posthumous works or productions, esp. literary works, of one who is dead; as, Cecil's
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