Rest , v. i. [F. rester. See Rest remainder.]
To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
The
affairs of men rest still uncertain.
Shak.
Rest , n. [F. reste, fr. rester to
remain, L. restare to stay back,
remain; pref. re- re- + stare to stand, stay. See Stand, and cf. Arrest, Restive.]
(With the definite article.) 1. That which is
left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty, and, for
the rest, it offers us the
best security that Heaven can give.
Tillotson. 2. Those not included in a
proposition or description; the remainder; others. "Plato and the rest of the
philosophers." Bp. Stillingfleet.
Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.
DRyden.
3. (Com.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of
England, the balance of assets above liabilities. [Eng.]
Syn. -- Remainder; overplus; surplus; remnant; residue; reserve; others.
Rest , v. t. 1. To
lay or place at rest; to quiet.
Your piety has paid
All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade.
Dryden.
2. To place, as on a support; to
cause to lean.
Her
weary head upon your bosom rest.
Waller.
Rest (r&ebreve;st), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rested; p.
pr. & vb. n. Resting.]
[AS.
restan. See Rest,
n.] 1. To cease from
action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
God . . . rested on the seventh day from all
his work which he had
made.
Gen. ii.
2. Six days thou shalt do
thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest.
Ex. xxiii.
12. 2. To be free from
whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
There rest, if any rest can harbor there.
Milton.
3. To lie;
to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to
rest on a couch.
4. To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column
rests on its pedestal.
5. To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
Fancy . . . then retries
Into her private cell when Nature
rests.
Milton. 6. To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
On him I rested, after long debate,
And not without considering, fixed
&?;&?; fate.
Dryden.
7. To be
satisfied; to acquiesce.
To rest in Heaven's determination.
Addison.
To rest with, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it rests with him to
decide.
Rest , n. [AS. rest, ræst, rest; akin to
D. rust, G. rast. OHG. rasta, Dan. & Sw. rast rest, repose, Icel. röst the distance between two resting places, a mole, Goth. rasta a mile, also to Goth. razn house, Icel. rann, and perhaps to G.
ruhe rest, repose, AS. rōw, Gr. 'erwh`. Cf. Ransack.]
1. A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind. Chaucer.
Sleep give thee all his
rest!
Shak.
2. Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
And the land
had rest fourscore years.
Judges iii.
30. 3. Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
How sleep the
brave who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest.
Collins.
4. That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest
in a lathe,
for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
He made narrowed rests round
about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of
the house.
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Kings vi. 6. 5. (Anc. Armor) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
Their visors closed, their lances in the rest.
Dryden. 6. A place where one may rest,
either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode. "Halfway houses
and travelers' rests." J.
H. Newman.
In
dust our final rest, and native home.
Milton. Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to
the inheritance which the Lord your God
giveth you.
Deut. xii. 9.
7. (Pros.) A short pause in reading verse; a cæsura.
8. The striking of a
balance at regular intervals in a running account. "An account is said to be taken with annual or semiannual rests." Abbott.
9. A set or game at tennis. [Obs.]
10. (Mus.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
Rest house, an empty house for the
accomodation of travelers; a caravansary. [India]
-- To set, or To set up, one's
rest, to have a settled determination; -- from an old game of cards, when one so expressed his intention to stand or rest upon his
hand. [Obs.] Shak. Bacon.
Syn. --
Cessation; pause; intermission; stop; stay; repose; slumber; quiet; ease; quietness; stillness; tranquillity; peacefulness; peace. -- Rest, Repose. Rest is a ceasing from
labor or exertion; repose is a mode of resting which gives relief and refreshment after toil and labor. The words are commonly interchangeable.
Rest (r?st), v.
t. [For arrest.]
To arrest. [Obs.]
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