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ˈrested, ppl. a. [f. rest v.1 + -ed.] Refreshed by repose or sleep. Also used of land that has lain fallow for some time, and (Sc.) of a fire. Also const. up (see rest v.1 2 g).
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 5737 Priamus then his men calles, He brought thre thousand fresch & rested. a1586Sidney Arcadia, Sonn. (1605) 473 The Nightingale as soone as April bringeth Vnto her rested sense a perfect waking,..Sings out her woes. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme ii. xlix. 317 Bishops weede..groweth chiefly in rested grounds. 1611Cotgr., Reposé, reposed, rested; lyen fallow a great while. a1774Fergusson Farmer's Ingle xii, The cruizy too can only blink and bleer, The restit ingle's done the maist it dow. 1890C. W. R. Cooke 4 Yrs. in Parl. 64 Epigrams are the product of a rested brain. 1894H. Gardiner Unob. Patagonia 277 A sudden onrush of fresh, eager, rested, enthusiastic men. 1922E. O'Neill Anna Christie i. 115, I was thinking maybe..he might be willing to stake me to a room and eats till I get rested up. 1929G. Ade Let. 22 May (1973) 141, I am certainly glad to be home after a tedious tour and I am getting all rested up. 1935M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer xxi. 201, I guess we're all rested up. Come along, boys. |