Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rest \Rest\ (r[e^]st), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rested}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Resting}.] [AS. restan. See {Rest}, n.]
   1. To cease from action or motion, especially from action
      which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or
      exertion.

            God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his
            work which he had made.               --Gen. ii. 2.

            Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh
            day thou shalt rest.                  --Ex. xxiii.
                                                  12.

   2. To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet
      or still.

            There rest, if any rest can harbor there. --Milton.

   3. To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a
      couch.

   4. To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column
      rests on its pedestal.

   5. To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.

            Fancy . . . then retries Into her private cell when
            Nature rests.                         --Milton.

   6. To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose
      without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.

            On him I rested, after long debate, And not without
            considering, fixed ?? fate.           --Dryden.

   7. To be satisfied; to acquiesce.

            To rest in Heaven's determination.    --Addison.

   {To rest with}, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it
      rests with him to decide.

Resting \Rest"ing\,
   a. & n. from {Rest}, v. t. & i.

   {Resting spore} (Bot.), a spore in certain orders of alg[ae],
      which remains quiescent, retaining its vitality, for long
      periods of time. --C. E. Bessey.