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Rest
Rest Rest (r?st), v. t. [For arrest.]
To arrest. [Obs.]
Rest
Rest 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.
RestRest 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.
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.]
Syn: Remainder; overplus; surplus; remnant; residue; reserve;
others. RestRest Rest, v. i. [F. rester. See Rest remainder.]
To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
The affairs of men rest still uncertain. --Shak.
Meaning of rests from wikipedia
- Look up
rest or
REST in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Rest or
REST may
refer to:
Sleep Bed
rest Kneeling Lying (position)
Sitting Squatting position...
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REST (representational
state transfer) is a
software architectural style that was
created to
guide the
design and
development of the
architecture for the...
- with (e.g.
quarter note and
quarter rest, or
quaver and
quaver rest), and each of them has a
distinctive sign.
Rests are
intervals of
silence in pieces...
- The
Rest Is Noise:
Listening to the
Twentieth Century is a 2007
nonfiction book by the
American music critic Alex Ross,
first published by Farrar, Straus...
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Clouds Rest is a
mountain in
Yosemite National Park,
located east-northeast of
Yosemite Village, California.
Although there are many
peaks in the park...
- longer,
while gel
rests quickly return to
their original shape. Gel
rests provide more cooling. Some
computer keyboards come with a
wrist rest included. Beyond...
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static membrane potential of
quiescent cells is
called the
resting membrane potential (or
resting voltage), as
opposed to the
specific dynamic electrochemical...
- The
Rest of the
Robots is a
collection of
eight short stories and two full-length
novels by
American writer Isaac Asimov,
published in 1964. The stories...
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Rest on Me is the
first studio album by Kim Carnes. It was
released in 1971 (see 1971 in music) on Amos
Records and
reissued on A&M
Records in the late...
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Chris Rest is an
American guitarist best
known for his work with the
bands No Use For A Name, Rich Kids on LSD, and Lagwagon. He was Rich Kids on LSD's...
