Definition of rest

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Rest (n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.

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Reposed :: Reposed (a.) Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest.
Restless :: Restless (a.) Deprived of rest or sleep.
Course :: Course (n.) Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race..
Verd :: Verd (n.) The privilege of cutting green wood within a forest for fuel.
Foreman :: Foreman (n.) The chief of a set of hands employed in a shop, or on works of any kind, who superintends the rest; an overseer..
Engagedness :: Engagedness (n.) The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
Alterative :: Alterative (n.) A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations..
Confinement :: Confinement (n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
Agist :: Agist (v. t.) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same..
Cohibition :: Cohibition (n.) Hindrance; restraint.
Didelphous :: Didelphous (n.) Formerly, any marsupial; but the term is now restricted to an American genus which includes the opossums, of which there are many species. See Opossum. [Written also Didelphis.] See Illustration in Appendix..
Stopcock :: Stopcock (n.) A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc..
Materialize :: Materialize (v. t.) To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought..
Frith :: Frith (a.) A forest; a woody place.
Repress :: Repress (v. t.) Hence, to check; to restrain; to keep back..
Inhabit :: Inhabit (v. t.) To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses..
Tidley :: Tidley (n.) The goldcrest.
Important :: Important (v. t.) Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious..
Slavophile :: Slavophile (n.) One, not being a Slav, who is interested in the development and prosperity of that race..
Unstill :: Unstill (a.) Not still; restless.
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