Rest (r&ebreve_;st), v. t. [For arrest.] To arrest. [Obs.]
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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.
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God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Gen. ii. 2.
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Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest. Ex. xxiii. 12.
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2. To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
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There rest, if any rest can harbor there. Milton.
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3. To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
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4. To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
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5. To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
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Fancy . . . then retries
Into her private cell when Nature rests. Milton.
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6. To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
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On him I rested, after long debate,
And not without considering, fixed &unr_;&unr_; fate. Dryden.
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7. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
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To rest in Heaven's determination. Addison.
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To rest with, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it rests with him to decide.
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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.
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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.
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2. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others. “Plato and the rest of the philosophers.” Bp. Stillingfleet.
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Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears. DRyden.
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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.]
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Syn. -- Remainder; overplus; surplus; remnant; residue; reserve; others.
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