'To rest with' definitions:
Definition of 'To rest with'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- God . . . rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. --Gen. ii. 2. [1913 Webster]
- Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest. --Ex. xxiii. 12. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still. [1913 Webster]
- There rest, if any rest can harbor there. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead. [1913 Webster]
- Fancy . . . then retries Into her private cell when Nature rests. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise. [1913 Webster]
- On him I rested, after long debate, And not without considering, fixed ?? fate. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To be satisfied; to acquiesce. [1913 Webster]
- To rest in Heaven's determination. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- To rest with, to be in the power of; to depend upon; as, it rests with him to decide. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To rest with'
- Rest,
- Rested,
- Restful,
- Restfully,
- Restfulness,
- Resting,
- at rest,
- rest on,
- Back rest,
- Compound rest,
- Dotted rest,
- Parade rest,
- Rest Haven,
- Rest cure,
- Rest house,
- Resting spore,
- Slide rest,
- Steady rest,
- Travelers Rest,
- bed rest,
- chin rest,
- day of rest,
- eternal rest,
- gun rest,
- half rest,
- lay to rest,
- quarter rest,
- rest area,
- rest assured,
- rest day,
- rest energy,
- rest home,
- rest mass,
- rest period,
- rest room,
- rest stop,
- resting place,
- resting potential,
- whole rest,
- Rest Haven, GA,
- Rest-harrow,
- To set one's rest,
- To set the heart at rest,
- To set up one's rest,
- Tool-rest,
- Travelers Rest, SC,
- rest-cure,
- to rest on one's laurels,
- Thorny rest-harrow,
- at rest inactive motionless static still