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Rest   /rɛst/   Listen
noun
Rest  n.  
1.
A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind. "Sleep give thee all his rest!"
2.
Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security. "And the land had rest fourscore years."
3.
Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death. "How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest."
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."
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."
6.
A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode. "Halfway houses and travelers' rests." "In dust our final rest, and native home." "Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you."
7.
(Pros.) A short pause in reading verse; a caesura.
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."
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 one's rest 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.)
Synonyms: 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  n.  (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."
2.
Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others. "Plato and the rest of the philosophers." "Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears."
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.)
Synonyms: Remainder; overplus; surplus; remnant; residue; reserve; others.


verb
Rest  v. t.  To arrest. (Obs.)


Rest  v. t.  
1.
To lay or place at rest; to quiet. "Your piety has paid All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade."
2.
To place, as on a support; to cause to lean. "Her weary head upon your bosom rest."


Rest  v. i.  (past & past part. rested; pres. part. resting)  
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." "Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest."
2.
To be free from whatever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still. "There rest, if any rest can harbor there."
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."
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 my fate."
7.
To be satisfied; to acquiesce. "To rest in Heaven's determination."
To rest with, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it rests with him to decide.


Rest  v. i.  To be left; to remain; to continue to be. "The affairs of men rest still uncertain."





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"Rest" Quotes from Famous Books



... lighted tapers, to show the caverns of death—as unconcerned as if they were immortal. They were used as burying-places for three hundred years; and, in one part, is a large pit full of skulls and bones, said to be the sad remains of a great mortality occasioned by a plague. In the rest, there is nothing but dust. They consist, chiefly, of great wide corridors and labyrinths, hewn out of the rock. At the end of some of these long passages, are unexpected glimpses of the daylight, shining down from ...
— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Vol VIII - Italy and Greece, Part Two • Various
... has not had the advantage of Prof. Myres's revision, in view of the rest of the book which he has not seen. Being for some time abroad on war-work, it was impossible to communicate with him; and it is therefore thought best to print his paper just as it was written some months before the lectures ...
— The Unity of Civilization • Various
... investigation of some silly subject like The Transience of Venusian Immigrants in Relation to the Martian Polar Ice Cap Cycle. Solarian sociologists are the butt of enough ridicule now. Do something like that and for the rest of your life you get knocking of the knees whenever anybody inquires about the specialty you worked in and threatens to ...
— Cubs of the Wolf • Raymond F. Jones
... passed safely through that valley of what might have been a horrible massacre. The unearthly racket we made was undoubtedly our salvation, but we were not out of danger by any means and continued our flight until eleven P. M. when we went into corral for food and rest. At three A. M. we again struck the trail and it is well that we did, for those blood-thirsty redskins laid death and destruction in their wake and came very near overtaking us a day later. Arriving at Leavenworth, I boarded a Missouri River palace for St. Louis, ...
— Dangers of the Trail in 1865 - A Narrative of Actual Events • Charles E Young
... that David ceased his supplications and lay down to snatch a moment's rest. When he awoke, he sprang up suddenly and saw Mantel still sitting before the open window where he left him, smoking his cigar and ...
— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss


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