the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > what remains in excess > of stock or stores (2)
Articles remaining from a store or stock. Chiefly in plural. Now rare except as merged with sense 3a.
plural. In concrete use: applied to materials that ‘arise’ as secondary or waste products of an operation (see quots.). Spec. in naval use: the…