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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Relict  \Rel"ict\  (-?kt),  n.  [L.  relicta,  fr  of  relictus  p.  p. 
  of  relinquere  to  leave  behind.  See  {Relinquish}.] 
  A  woman  whose  husband  is  dead;  a  widow. 
 
  Eli  dying  without  issue,  Jacob  was  obliged  by  law  to 
  marry  his  relict,  and  so  to  raise  up  seed  to  his 
  brother  Eli.  --South. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  relict 
  n  1:  an  organism  or  species  surviving  as  a  remnant  of  an 
  otherwise  extinct  flora  or  fauna  in  an  environment  much 
  changed  from  that  in  which  it  originated 
  2:  geological  feature  that  is  a  remnant  of  a  pre-existing 
  formation  after  other  parts  have  disappeared 




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