Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for REST
REST, v.t.
- To lay at rest; to quiet. Your piety has paid / All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade. – Dryden.
- To place, as on a support. We rest our cause on the truth of the Scripture. Her weary head upon your bosom rest. – Waller.
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