Main Entry:

²rest

Function:

verb

Date:

before 12th century

intransitive verb

1 a: to get rest by lying down ; especially : sleep b: to lie dead2: to cease from action or motion : refrain from labor or exertion3: to be free from anxiety or disturbance4: to sit or lie fixed or supported <a column rests on its pedestal>5 a: to remain confident : trust <cannot rest on that assumption> b: to be based or founded <the verdict rested on several sound precedents>6: to remain for action or accomplishment <the answer rests with you>7of farmland : to remain idle or uncropped8: to bring to an end voluntarily the introduction of evidence in a law casetransitive verb1: to give rest to2: to set at rest3: to place on or against a support4: to cause to be firmly fixed <rested all hope in his child>5: to desist voluntarily from presenting evidence pertinent to (a case at law)

— rest·er noun