n. a former president. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A place near the fire or hearth; home; domestic life or retirement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The outside or external covering. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of being nonresident, Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nonresident person; one who does not reside in the State or jurisdiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Presided; p. pr. & vb. n. Presiding. ] [ L. praesidere; prae before + sedere to sit: cf. F. présider. See Sit. ] 1. To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exercise superintendence; to watch over. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some o'er the public magazines preside. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Presidency. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Presidencies [ Cf. F. présidence. ] 1. The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The office of president; as, Washington was elected to the presidency. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The term during which a president holds his office; as, during the presidency of Madison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One of the three great divisions of British India, the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Presidencies, each of which had a council of which its governor was president. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Precedent. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His angels president
In every province. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. président, L. praesidens, -entis, p. pr. of praesidere. See Preside. ] 1. One who is elected or appointed to preside; a presiding officer, as of a legislative body. Specifically: (a) The chief officer of a corporation, company, institution, society, or the like. (b) The chief executive officer of the government in certain republics; as, the president of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A protector; a guardian; a presiding genius. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Just Apollo, president of verse. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Presiding or watching over. “Presidential angels.” Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a president; as, the presidential chair; a presidential election. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office and dignity of president; presidency. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who presides. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. praesidialis and praesidiarius, fr. praesidium a presiding over, defense, guard. See Preside. ] Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are three presidial castles in this city. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praesidiarium. ] A guard. [ Obs. ] “Heavenly presidiaries.” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Preside. [ 1913 Webster ]

Presiding elder. See under 2d Elder. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] A place of defense; a fortress; a garrison; a fortress; a garrison or guardhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Resided; p. pr. & vb. n. Residing. ] [ F. résider, L. residere; pref. re- re- + sedere to sit. See Sit. ] 1. To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to abide continuosly; to have one's domicile of home; to remain for a long time. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In no fixed place the happy souls reside. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element. [ 1913 Webster ]

In such like acts, the duty and virtue of contentedness doth especially reside. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sink; to settle, as sediment. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To dwell; inhabit; sojourn; abide; remain; live; domiciliate; domicile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. résidence. See Resident. ] 1. The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year. [ 1913 Webster ]

The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The place where one resides; an abode; a dwelling or habitation; esp., a settled or permanent home or domicile. “Near the residence of Posthumus.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Johnson took up his residence in London. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eng. Eccl. Law) The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed to nonresidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The place where anything rests permanently. [ 1913 Webster ]

But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then, . . . fights against his own majesty and kingship. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Subsidence, as of a sediment. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Domiciliation; sojourn; stay; abode; home; dwelling; habitation; domicile; mansion. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] In Spanish countries, a court or trial held, sometimes as long as six months, by a newly elected official, as the governor of a province, to examine into the conduct of a predecessor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. Residence. [ Obsoles. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. résident, L. residens, -entis, p. pr. of residere. See Reside. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fixed; stable; certain. [ Obs. ] “Stable and resident like a rock.” Jer. TAylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

One there still resident as day and night. Davenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who resides or dwells in a place for some time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A resident. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to a residence or residents; as, residential trade; a residential part of town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Residing; residentiary. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. residentiaris. ] Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is resident. [ 1913 Webster ]

The residentiary, or the frequent visitor of the favored spot, . . . will discover that both have been there. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An ecclesiastic who keeps a certain residence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Inhabitant; inhabiter; dweller; sojourner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or condition of a residentiary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or condition of a resident. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who resides in a place. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Residue. ] Pertaining to a residue; remaining after a part is taken. [ 1913 Webster ]

Residual air (Physiol.), that portion of air contained in the lungs which can not be expelled even by the most violent expiratory effort. It amounts to from 75 to 100 cubic inches. Cf. Supplemental air, under Supplemental. --
Residual error. (Mensuration) See Error, 6 (b). --
Residual figure (Geom.), the figure which remains after a less figure has been taken from a greater one. --
Residual magnetism (Physics), remanent magnetism. See under Remanent. --
Residual product, a by product, as cotton waste from a cotton mill, coke and coal tar from gas works, etc. --
Residual quantity (Alg.), a binomial quantity the two parts of which are connected by the negative sign, as a-b. --
Residual root (Alg.), the root of a residual quantity, as √(a-b). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Math.) (a) The difference of the results obtained by observation, and by computation from a formula. (b) The difference between the mean of several observations and any one of them. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Residue. ] Consisting of residue; as, residuary matter; pertaining to the residue, or part remaining; as, the residuary advantage of an estate. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Residuary clause (Law), that part of the testator's will in which the residue of his estate is disposed of. --
Residuary devise (Law), the person to whom the residue of real estate is devised by a will. --
Residuary legatee (Law), the person to whom the residue of personal estate is bequeathed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. résidu, L. residuum, fr. residuus that is left behind, remaining, fr. residere to remain behind. See Reside, and cf. Residuum. ] 1. That which remains after a part is taken, separated, removed, or designated; remnant; remainder. [ 1913 Webster ]

The residue of them will I deliver to the sword. Jer. xv. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

If church power had then prevailed over its victims, not a residue of English liberty would have been saved. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) 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; a moiety or group; -- used as nearly equivalent to radical, but in a more general sense. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ The term radical is sometimes restricted to groups containing carbon, the term residue and moiety being applied to the others. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Theory of Numbers) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Rest; remainder; remnant; balance; residuum; remains; leavings; relics. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. residuus. ] Remaining; residual. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

“I think so, ” is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot demagogue. L. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]