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REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 200 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RAY-RHU
REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place) , a cessation from active or regular
work
 , hence a time of relief from mental or
manual
  labour. Specific meanings are for an
interval
  of silence in music, marked by a sign indicating the length of the pause; for the forked support with iron-shod spike carried by the soldier till the end of the 17th century as a rest for the heavy
musket
 ; and for the support for the cue in billiards to be used when the striking ball is out of reach of the natural rest formed by the hand. In the medieval
armour
  of the horsed man-at-arms, and later in the
armour
  of the tournament, a contrivance was fixed to the side of the
body
 -armour near the right arm-pit, in which the
butt
 -end of the lance was placed to prevent the lance being driven back after striking the opponent at full charge; hence a knight, as a preliminary to the charge, " laid his lance in rest." This " rest" is a shortened form of " arrest," to check, stop, as is seen by the French equivalent, arret. Further, " rest," that which remains over and above, is derived from the French rester, to remain over, Lat. restare, to remain, literally, to stay behind. The
principal
  specific use of this word is in commerce for the
balance
  of undivided profit; it has thus always been the
term
  used by the Bank of England for that which in other banks and companies is called the " reserve " (Hartley Withers, The Meaning of Money (l000). D.' 298). The Bank of
England " rest " is never allowed to fall below 3,000,000 (See BANKS AND BANKING).


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