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.
Usage examples of "to rest with".
He gave me a mysterious look and said that he wished he could oblige me and sit down to rest with me there, but he was going to sit somewhere else while I tested my choice.
Though I don't know how you'd manage to rest with the walls flickering away and that silver thing whirling around in the middle.
She came to rest with two of her windows buried in the sand and another staring straight up into a purplish blue sky.
They shook with relief when the orbiter coasted to rest with only a few hundred feet to spare.
In these thou art not to be cast down nor to despair, but to rest with calm mind on the will of God, and to bear all things which come upon thee unto the praise of Jesus Christ.