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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Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed..
Diffuse :: Diffuse (a.) Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer..
Comb :: Comb (n.) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves..
Bound :: Bound (v. t.) To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of extension of; -- said of natural or of moral objects; to lie along, or form, a boundary of; to inclose; to circumscribe; to restrain; to confine..
Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit.
Reword :: Reword (v. t.) To alter the wording of; to restate in other words; as, to reword an idea or a passage..
Arrestation :: Arrestation (n.) Arrest.
Balcony :: Balcony (n.) A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater..
Turnwrest :: Turnwrest (n.) designating a kind of hillside plow.
Grind :: Grind (n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study..
Rescue :: Rescue (v. t.) To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction..
Quietism :: Quietism (n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes..
Downlying :: Downlying (n.) The time of retiring to rest; time of repose.
Apheresis :: Apheresis (n.) An operation by which any part is separated from the rest.
Revel :: Revel (v. i.) To move playfully; to indulge without restraint.
Definite :: Definite (a.) Serving to define or restrict; limiting; determining; as, the definite article..
Cinnamon :: Cinnamon (n.) The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices..
Abstract :: Abstract (a.) To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects..
Enforest :: Enforest (v. t.) To turn into a forest.
Restore :: Restore (v. t.) To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like..
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