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Definition of Rest

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.
Rest
Rest 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.
Rest
Rest 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 Rest from wikipedia

- REST (Representational State Transfer) is a software architectural style that was created to describe the design and guide the development of the architecture...
- Look up rest or REST in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rest or REST may refer to: Sleep Bed rest Break (work) Kneeling Lying (position) Sitting Squatting...
- Eternal Rest or Requiem aeternam is a Western Christian prayer asking God: (1) to hasten the progression of the souls of the faithful departed in Purgatory...
- reStructuredText (RST, ReST, or reST) is a file format for textual data used primarily in the Python programming language community for technical do****entation...
- The Rest Is History is a history podcast hosted by historian and author Dominic Sandbrook and po****r historian Tom Holland. The podcast was launched in...
- James Rest was an American psychologist specializing in moral psychology and development. Together with his Minnesota Group of colleagues, including Darcia...
- A rest is the absence of a sound for a defined period of time in music, or one of the musical notation signs used to indicate that. The length of a rest...
- Rest in peace (R.I.P.), a phrase from the Latin requiescat in pace (Ecclesiastical Latin: [rekwiˈeskat in ˈpatʃe]), is sometimes used in traditional Christian...
- The Rest of the Story was a Monday-through-Friday radio program originally hosted by Paul Harvey. Beginning as a part of his newscasts during the Second...
- Travelers Rest or Traveller's Rest may refer to: Traveler's Rest (Shelby City, Kentucky), a historic property in Lincoln County, Kentucky, ****ociated with...