residuum

• Suppose any "meat" (I take the word to include drink) to contain no indigestible residuum, there need not be anything "voided" at all—if by "voiding" is meant expulsion from the lower intestine Such a meat might be "completely absorbed for the sustenance of the body." —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 3
• The right people were now more and more numerous, but this was a revelation addressed only to a choice residuum--a residuum including of course Limbert himself, with whom I haggled for another cigarette before I announced that as a consequence of an interview I had had with him that afternoon, and of a subtle argument I had brought to bear, Mrs. Highmore's pearl of publishers had agreed to put forth the new book as a serial. —  Embarrassments
• In North Africa the residuum was a remarkable propensity to visions, holy dreams, and the like. —  History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
• This solution they boiled down and the residuum was saltpeter or gunpowder, without which no settlement in Kentucky could exist The little valley now became a scene of great activity. —  The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky
• By one set of tests this residuum is unexpectedly small. —  Modern Religious Cults and Movements

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