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/rˈɛstəd/ /rˈɛstɪd/ Listen

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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... of crocodiles in plenty. We went back to the ships and next day made our way from Cape Verde and saw the broad mouth of a great river, three leagues in width, which we entered and guessed to be the Gambia. Here wind and tide were in our favour, so we came to a small island in mid-stream and rested there the night. In the morning we went farther in, and saw a crowd of canoes full of men, who fled at the sight of us, for it was they who had killed Nuno Tristam and his men. Next day we saw beyond the point of the river some natives ...

— Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. • C. Raymond Beazley

... expression rested on Bax's face as he stood by the steersman, glancing alternately at the sails and at the horizon where clouds of the blackest ...

— The Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne

... as well as a sincere patriot, and though his opinion is therefore entitled to respect, especially from a foreigner ignorant of American law, it is impossible to feel that his decision was not open to criticism on purely legal grounds. It rested upon the assertion that property in slaves was "explicitly recognized" by the Constitution. If this were so it would seem to follow that since under the Constitution a man's property could not be taken from him "without due process of law" he could not without such ...

— A History of the United States • Cecil Chesterton

... funeral was about to leave the house, the cat jumped over the coffin, and no one would move till the cat was destroyed." In another, a colly dog jumped over a coffin which a funeral party had set on the ground while they rested. "It was felt by all that the dog must be killed, without hesitation, before they proceeded farther, and killed it was." With us the custom survives; its explanation has been forgotten. See Henderson's "Notes on the ...

— Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore • W. R. S. Ralston

... three—now four—great powers rose at her arrogant challenge. Germany is everywhere attacking, but, in reality, she is conducting a desperate war of defence for the organization of her existence, which, for the space of forty years, has rested on a nervous anticipation of war with her neighbors. Germany's offensive is a strategical manoeuvre. As a matter of fact, she is fighting like a wild animal surrounded on all sides. And, of course, she will carry on the ...

— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various

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