Rest \Rest\ (r[e^]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.
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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