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Definition

what remains after the main part is gone

Specialized senses of residue include:

chemistry: remaining substance after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process
law: residue, residual estate, residuary estate, or residuum reference that part of a dead person's money and property that is left after all debts, and specific bequests have been fulfilled.

My mouth was dry and tasted like gasoline residue.
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels

Edward was not entirely without hopes of some favourable change in his mother towards him; and on THAT he rested for the residue of their income.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
He thought, this is the residue of many people put together, of human bodies pressed into a mass, with no space to move, with no air to breathe.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
—who could not tolerate the slashing, braying residue that called itself his MOTHER.
Edward Albee -- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Clairvoyants have long claimed to feel a residue of psychic energy on common objects, left by the people who have touched them.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
Another thing troubling her, she said, was a bloody residue that had come out on the catheter, indicating problems with the stomach wall.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
I look down and take inventory, and then brush off with my hands the ashen residue left from the fallen beast.
Pittacus Lore -- I Am Number Four
We find a small residue of urine.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die
Beyond the cauldron were long wooden tables covered with beakers and flasks encrusted with black residue.
Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
Cyril would marry Miss Quested—he grew certain of it, all the unexplained residue of the Marabar contributing.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
That should provide hours of calm and keep us clear of any poisonous residue.
Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
But still, the residue was a very large puddle.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
A hull fracture would kill you just as fast, just down here there'd be less residue for the next boat to try and recover."
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
The texture was kind of gritty and there was residue that stuck to my fingers as I rolled it.
D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death
His hands were packed tightly with splinters, and his teeth were caked with residue from the fallout.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
The hangover's residue of relaxation had freed me of the tensions that had always defeated me before.
Russell Baker -- Growing Up
There was a residue of pain there.
Katherine Paterson -- Jacob Have I Loved
The residue of the human spirit smeared on inanimate objects was all he could withstand of humanity.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
It was the duty of Sergeant Jacobs to act as a human sieve-retaining the grosset matter and passing on the residue to his superior.
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
It was altered the instant I got on the line, of course; a prearranged signal for a swift goodbye, but the residue remained.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity

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