Definition of rest

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Rest (n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion..

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Severalty :: Severalty (n.) A state of separation from the rest, or from all others; a holding by individual right..
Hamshackle :: Hamshackle (v. t.) To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs; as, to hamshackle a horse or cow; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb..
Foothold :: Foothold (n.) A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.
Polychrest :: Polychrest (n.) A medicine that serves for many uses, or that cures many diseases..
Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes..
Hemostatic :: Hemostatic (n.) A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.
Brestsummer :: Brestsummer (n.) See Breastsummer.
Revive :: Revive (v. i.) To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate..
Prison :: Prison (v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty..
Enforest :: Enforest (v. t.) To turn into a forest.
Grallae :: Grallae (n. pl.) An order of birds which formerly included all the waders. By later writers it is usually restricted to the sandpipers, plovers, and allied forms; -- called also Grallatores..
Forestaff :: Forestaff (n.) An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff..
Repose :: Repose (v. i.) To lie at rest; to rest.
Lie :: Lie (adj.) To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin..
Wantonly :: Wantonly (adv.) In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.
Zooid :: Zooid (n.) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and digestive organs are not developed..
Neoplasty :: Neoplasty (n.) Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty..
Range :: Range (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.
Restrainer :: Restrainer (n.) One who, or that which, restrains..
Cure :: Cure (n.) Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.
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