Crossword clues for resting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rest \Rest\ (r[e^]st), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Rested; p. pr. & vb. n. Resting.] [AS. restan. See Rest, n.]
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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.
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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. To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
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To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
Fancy . . . then retries Into her private cell when Nature rests.
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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.
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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.
Resting \Rest"ing\, a. & n. from Rest, v. t. & i.
Resting spore (Bot.), a spore in certain orders of alg[ae],
which remains quiescent, retaining its vitality, for long
periods of time.
--C. E. Bessey.
Wiktionary
1 That which rests; that which is not in action or in the process of growth. 2 unemployed. 3 Remaining; stationary. n. 1 The action of rest; repose; inactivity; reliance; confidence. 2 A place where one can rest; a resting-place. 3 A pause; a break; an interlude. v
(present participle of rest English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "resting".
I have consulted no one on the subject, and have appended my name only to avoid resting an important fact upon anonymous authority.
The mechanical analog would be a pendulum twisted to the side by a constant torque, resting motionless, cocked at an angle below the horizontal.
Josiah Bartram, resting comfortably, was alone, in charge of the nurse.
Alec, stopping to nod and smile at the bright-faced figure resting on the old bamboo chair, after a lively game of battledore and shuttlecock, in place of a run which a storm prevented.
One stubborn lock slipped down on his forehead Billie leaned toward him, her hand casually resting on his shoulder.
Trang Ho followed Blanco Ferndndez and Da Rimini toward the nearest opening in the wall, Manco found himself a resting place and relaxed, cradling his rifle in his lap.
Guy was seated at his desk, his arms crossed on the blotter before him, his head resting on them.
Alan looked down the long building at Dukas, who was sitting next to Bonner, resting his bad leg.
He had lived in Dock Street, Hull, and Brigg imagined him growing up there with the fishy smells coming off the docks, and the mist, thin and horizontal, lying like resting ghosts along the street on mid-winter nights.
Sugar Spring, and from there up Spirit Canyon the climb was so tedious and steep that Brit took a full hour for the trip, resting the team often because they were soft from the new grass diet and sweated easily.
Southern skirt of the Henry House plateau--in a line-of-battle which, with its left resting upon the Sudley road, three-quarters of a mile South of its intersection with the Warrenton Pike, is the irregular hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle, formed by itself and those two intersecting roads, to the South-East of such intersection.
For railway bridges it commonly consists of cross girders, attached to or resting on the main girders, and longitudinal rail girders or stringers carried by the cross girders and directly supporting the sleepers and rails.
Two men wearing the semiofficial blue suit of the Tonton Macoutes were lounging on the other side, their dark glasses resting in their breast pockets.
Honor Magor has been resting peacefully for nearly a century, hidden under the tangle of waving grasses and ever-changing flowers at Come-to-Good.
Lo Manto walked alongside his mother, her arm resting on the fold of his elbow, down the path of her lush backyard garden.