Definition of rest

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Rest (n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal..

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Fidget :: Fidget (n.) Uneasiness; restlessness.
Figurehead :: Figurehead (n.) A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief..
Sparker :: Sparker (n.) A spark arrester.
Koklass :: Koklass (n.) Any pheasant of the genus Pucrasia. The birds of this genus inhabit India and China, and are distinguished by having a long central and two lateral crests on the head. Called also pucras..
Herbivora :: Herbivora (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation..
Lodge :: Lodge (n.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
Survivorship :: Survivor (n.) The longer liver of two joint tenants, or two persons having a joint interest in anything..
Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) In yachts and other small vessels, a space lower than the rest of the deck, which affords easy access to the cabin..
Temporality :: Temporality (n.) That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; -- chiefly used in the plural..
Saddle :: Saddle (n.) A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle..
Goosewing :: Goosewing (n.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
Disenchained :: Disenchained (a.) Freed from restraint; unrestrained.
Knitback :: Knitback (n.) The plant comfrey; -- so called from its use as a restorative.
Party :: Party (v.) One concerned or interested in an affair; one who takes part with others; a participator; as, he was a party to the plot; a party to the contract..
Recruit :: Recruit (v. t.) Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate..
Presternum :: Presternum (n.) The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium.
Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) The rest for the tympan when raised.
Sport :: Sport (v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6..
Deckle :: Deckle (n.) A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper..
Bison :: Bison (n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers..
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