To arrest.
To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
A short pause in reading verse; a cæsura.
The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
A set or game at tennis.
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.
That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
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.
To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
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.
To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
To tune with a wrest, or key.
The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
Active or moving power.
A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.