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)

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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) , a cessation from active or regular

work

WORK

, hence a time of relief from mental or

manual

MANUAL

labour. Specific meanings are for an

interval

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

MUSKET (Fr. mousquet, Ger. Muskete, &c.)

; 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

ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

of the horsed man-at-arms, and later in the

armour

ARMOUR, PHILIP DANFORTH (1832-1901)

of the tournament, a contrivance was fixed to the side of the

body

BODY

-armour near the right arm-pit, in which the

butt

BUTT
BUTT, ISAAC (1813-1879)

-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

PRINCIPAL

specific use of this word is in commerce for the

balance

BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. bilantia, an apparatus for weighing, from bi, two, and lanx, a dish or scale)

of undivided profit; it has thus always been the

term

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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