5. To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.

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

Milton.

6. To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety;

as, to rest on a man's promise.

On him I rested, after long debate, And not without considering,

fixed &?;&?; fate.

Dryden.

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