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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



... I will do so:—But look you, Cassius, The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow. And all the rest look like a chidden train: Calphurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes, As we have seen him in the Capitol, Being crossed in conference ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon
... almost every striking scene, composed at the leisure of the cast, but so vividly supplemented with descriptions of the leading lady's clothes that it hardly required any effort of the imagination to conjure up the rest. The postures and the chief garments of Pilate—he was eating pomegranates when the curtain rose and listening to scandal from his slave maidens about Mary Magdalene—were at once recognised in their resemblance to those of the photographs, and in the thrill of ...
— Hilda - A Story of Calcutta • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... the outpost, carried the rest of the situation by assault. He rushed into the dining-room and kissed his mother, with one ...
— Long Live the King • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... ecclesiastical organization which was represented in Rome, in the Episcopate, and in the Canon law; the democratic monachism; the intellectual temper with its pursuit of pure knowledge; the religious mystical spirit which was included in all the rest and yet separate from them. But other elements than these were at work in the twelfth century,—the literary and historic movement, the legal revival, the new scepticism, the spirit of wide imperialism, the romantic ...
— Henry the Second • Mrs. J. R. Green
... step would set her mind at rest, sleep was impossible to her after such excitement, fatigue, and disappointment; and the solitude she had longed for only gave her leave to turn over all the painful circumstances of her position without let or hindrance. Never had she felt so bitterly towards her uncle. In vain did ...
— Mr. Hogarth's Will • Catherine Helen Spence


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