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  • English Word Residency Definition A political agency at a native court in British India, held by an officer styled the Resident; also, a Dutch commercial colony or province in the East Indies.
  • English Word Resident Definition Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country.
  • English Word Resident Definition Fixed; stable; certain.
  • English Word Resident Definition One who resides or dwells in a place for some time.
  • English Word Resident Definition A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usualy applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors. See the Note under Minister, 4.
  • English Word Residenter Definition A resident.
  • English Word Residential Definition Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade.
  • English Word Residential Definition Residing; residentiary.
  • English Word Residentiary Definition Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian.
  • English Word Residentiary Definition One who is resident.
  • English Word Residentiary Definition An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence.
  • English Word Residentiaryship Definition The office or condition of a residentiary.
  • English Word Residentship Definition The office or condition of a resident.
  • English Word Resider Definition One who resides in a place.
  • English Word Residing Definition of Reside
  • English Word Residual Definition Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken.
  • English Word Residual Definition The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula.
  • English Word Residual Definition The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them.
  • English Word Residuary Definition Consisting of residue; as, residuary matter; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; as, the residuary advantage of an estate.
  • English Word Residue Definition That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder.
  • English Word Residue Definition That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.
  • English Word Residue Definition That which remains of a molecule after the removal of a portion of its constituents; hence, an atom or group regarded as a portion of a molecule; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense.
  • English Word Residue Definition Any positive or negative number that differs from a given number by a multiple of a given modulus; thus, if 7 is the modulus, and 9 the given number, the numbers -5, 2, 16, 23, etc., are residues.
  • English Word Residuous Definition Remaining; residual.
  • English Word Residuum Definition That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.
  • English Word Resiege Definition To seat again; to reinstate.
  • English Word Resign Definition To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively.
  • English Word Resign Definition To relinquish; to abandon.
  • English Word Resign Definition To commit to the care of; to consign.
  • English Word Resignation Definition The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.