Part 276

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.

Rest, v. t. 1. To lay or place at rest; to quiet.

Your piety has paid All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade.

Dryden.

2. To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.

Her weary head upon your bosom rest.

Waller.

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.

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.

2. Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others. "Plato and the rest of the philosophers." Bp. Stillingfleet.

Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears.

DRyden.