 2 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rest \Rest\ (r[e^]st), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Rested}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Resting}.] [AS. restan. See {Rest}, noun]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Resting \Rest"ing\,
a. & n. from {Rest}, verb (used with an object) & i.
{Resting spore} (Bot.), a spore in certain orders of alg[ae],
which remains quiescent, retaining its vitality, for long
periods of time. --C. E. Bessey.
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