(rest) v.i.
1. To cease working, exerting oneself, etc., so as to refresh oneself.
2. To cease from effort or activity for a time.
3. To seek or obtain ease or refreshment by lying down, sleeping, etc.
4. To sleep.
5. To be at peace; be tranquil.
6. To lie in death; be dead.
7. To remain unchanged: And there the matter rests.
8. To be supported; stand, lean, lie, or sit: with against, on, or upon.
9. To be founded or based: with on or upon.
10. To rely; depend: with on or upon: Our hopes rest on you.
11. To be placed as a burden or responsibility: with on or upon.
12. To be or lie in a specified place: The blame rests with me.
13. To be directed; remain on something, as the gaze or eyes.
14. Law To cease presenting evidence in a case.
15. Agric. To lie fallow.
—v.t.
16. To give rest to; refresh by rest.
17. To put, lay, lean, etc., as for support or rest.
18. To found; base.
19. To direct (the gaze, eyes, etc.).
20. Law To cease presenting evidence in (a case).
—noun
1. The act or state of resting; cessation from labor, exertion, action, or motion of any kind; repose; quiet.
2. Freedom from disturbance or disquiet; peace; tranquillity.
3. Sleep; also, death.
4. That on which anything rests; a support; base; basis; foundation; specifically, in billiards and pool, a support for a cue; a bridge.
5. A place of repose or quiet; a stopping place; abode.
6. Music a A pause, or an interval of silence, b A character indicating such pause: an eighth rest.
7. In prosody, a pause in a verse; a caesura.
8. Obs. Restored or renewed strength.
9. Mil. A command given troops, allowing them to relax. ♦ Homophone: wrest. [OE restan]
—rest′er noun Synonyms: (verb): abide, acquiesce, cease, desist, halt, hold, lean, lie, pause, recline, repose, sleep, slumber, stand, stay, stop, unbend. See ABIDE, LEAN¹. Antonyms: contend, fight, labor, strive, struggle, toil, wake, watch, work. Synonyms (noun): calm, calmness, cessation, ease, pause, peace, peacefulness, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, recreation, repose, sleep, slumber, stay, stillness, stop, tranquillity. Ease denotes freedom from cause of disturbance, whether external or internal. Quiet denotes freedom from agitation, or especially from annoying sounds. Rest is a cessation of activity, especially of wearying or painful activity. Recreation is some pleasing activity of certain organs or faculties that affords rest to other parts of our nature that have become weary. Repose is a laying down, primarily of the body, and figuratively, a relaxing freedom from toil or strain of mind. Sleep is the perfection of repose, the most complete rest; slumber is a light and ordinarily pleasant form of sleep. See REMAINDER, RESPITE. Antonyms: agitation, commotion, disquiet, disturbance, excitement, motion, movement, restlessness, stir, strain, toil, tumult, unrest, work.

(rest) noun
1. That which remains or is left over; a remainder.
2. Those remaining or not enumerated; the others: in this sense a collective noun taking a plural verb.
3. A balance, as of resources.
—v.i.
1. To be and remain; continue; stay: Rest content.
2. Obs. To be left: Nothing rests but hope.
—v.t.
3. Obs. To cause to remain: God rest you well. ♦ Homophone: wrest. [<OF reste <rester remain <L restare stop, stand <re- again + stare stand]

(rest) noun
A support for a lance attached to medieval armor: an aphetic form of arrest. ♦ Homophone: wrest.