Sleep give thee all his rest! Shak.

And the land had rest fourscore years. Judges iii. 30.

How sleep the brave who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest. Collins.

He made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house. 1 Kings vi. 6.

Their visors closed, their lances in the rest. Dryden.

In dust our final rest, and native home. Milton.

Ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you. Deut. xii. 9.

Rest house, an empty house for the accomodation of travelers; a caravansary. [India] -- To set, or To set up, one's rest, to have a settled determination; -- from an old game of cards, when one so expressed his intention to stand or rest upon his hand. [Obs.] Shak. Bacon.

Syn. -- Cessation; pause; intermission; stop; stay; repose; slumber; quiet; ease; quietness; stillness; tranquillity; peacefulness; peace. -- Rest, Repose. Rest is a ceasing from labor or exertion; repose is a mode of resting which gives relief and refreshment after toil and labor. The words are commonly interchangeable.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Your piety has paid
All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade. Dryden.

Her weary head upon your bosom rest. Waller.

Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty, and, for the rest, it offers us the best security that Heaven can give. Tillotson.

Armed like the rest, the Trojan prince appears. DRyden.

Syn. -- Remainder; overplus; surplus; remnant; residue; reserve; others.

The affairs of men rest still uncertain. Shak.