Rēm'o-rā, n.
n. [Lat., from remorari, to delay, from re, again, back, and morari, to delay.]
Sense 1. Delay; obstacle; hindrance. [Obs.]
The sum is, they thought to limit or take away the remora of his negative voice, which, like to that little pest at sea, took upon it to arrest and stop the commonwealth steering under full sail to a reformation. Milton.
Sense 2. (Ichth.) A fish (Echeneis remora), having an oval sucking disk on the top of the head. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
Sense 3. (Surg.) An instrument intended to retain parts in their places. Dunglison.
