3. Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest.
Collins. 4. That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool
or steadying the work.
He made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
1 Kings vi. 6. 5. (Anc. Armor) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
Their visors closed, their lances in the rest.
Dryden. 6. A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode. "Halfway
houses and travelers' rests." J. H. Newman.
In dust our final rest, and native home.
Milton.
Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you.
Deut.
xii. 9. 7. (Pros.) A short pause in reading verse; a cæsura.
8. The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. "An account is said to be taken
with annual or semiannual rests." Abbott.
9. A set or game at tennis. [Obs.]
10. (Mus.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence.
They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
Rest house, an empty house for the accomodation of travelers; a caravansary. [India] — To set, or
To set up, one's rest, to have a settled determination; — from an old game of cards, when one so
expressed his intention to stand or rest upon his hand. [Obs.] Shak. Bacon.
Syn. — Cessation; pause; intermission; stop; stay; repose; slumber; quiet; ease; quietness; stillness; tranquillity; peacefulness; peace.
— Rest, Repose. Rest is a ceasing from labor or exertion; repose is a mode of resting which gives
relief and refreshment after toil and labor. The words are commonly interchangeable.
Rest
(Rest) 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.
