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rested |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Rest \Rest\ (r[e^]st), 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. 5. To sleep; to slumber; hence poetically, to be dead. Fancy . . . then retries Into her private cell when Nature rests. --Milton. 6. 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. --Dryden. 7. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: rested adj : not tired; refreshed as by sleeping or relaxing; "came back rested from her vacation" [ant: {tired}]
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