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English Dictionary: residuum by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
residuum
n
  1. something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
    Synonym(s): remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Residuum \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.
  
               [bd]I think so,[b8] is the whole residuum . . . after
               evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot
               demagogue.                                             --L. Taylor.
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