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restless, a.|ˈrɛstlɪs|
[f. rest n.1 + -less. Cf. Fris. restleas, G. rastlos (Da. and Sw. rastlös), Du. rusteloos.]
1. a. Deprived of rest; finding no rest; esp. uneasy in mind or spirit.
In some contexts passing into sense 2.
a1000Rule St. Benet (Schröer) lxiv. 121 A bið unᵹestillod and restleas, þe mid þam unþeawum beled bið. c1386Chaucer Pard. T. 728 Thus walke I lyk a restelees [v.r. risteles] kaityf. c1430Pol., Rel., & L. Poems (1903) 180 In a valey of þis restles mynde I souȝte.., Trustynge a trewe loue for to fynde. 1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 805 So was his restlesse heart continually tossed and tombled. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon (1630) 58 How restlesse are the ghosts of hellish Sprites, When euery Charmer..Cals vs from nine-fold trenched Phlegiton. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. cii, Restless he passed the remnants of the night. 1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. xxvii, That he a pilgrimage would take To Melrose Abbey, for the sake Of Michael's restless sprite. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics I. vi. i. 179 His cares were thrown off, and he was restless and anxious no longer about little things.
b. Marked or characterized by unrest; affording or yielding no rest.
1605Shakes. Macb. iii. ii. 22 Better be with the dead,..Then on the torture of the Minde to lye In restlesse extasie. 1776Johnson Let. 21 Oct. in Boswell, My nights are very restless and tiresome. 1784Cowper Task i. 44 Restless was the chair; the back erect Distress'd the weary loins. a1806H. K. White To the Morning, Now let me leave my restless bed. 1821Shelley Hellas 2 We strew these opiate flowers On thy restless pillow.
2. a. Of persons (or animals): Taking no rest; constantly stirring or acting, or desirous to be so; averse to being quiet or settled.
c1475Rauf Coilȝear 819 Thir riche restles renkis ruschit out full raith. 1503Dunbar Thistle & Rose 80 The restles Suallow commandit scho also To feche all fowll. 1535Coverdale Jer. xlvi. 25, I will vyset that restlesse people off Alexandria. 1582Bentley Mon. Matrones To Rdr., I haue laboured..with restlesse Ruth to go after the maidens in the haruest. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 55 Where these restlesse people ceased not by all meanes to enlarge their Empire. 1649Milton Eikon. Pref., We choose that interpretation which may best mind us of what our restless enemies endeavor. 1718Free-thinker No. 42. 306 Poverty and Avarice are the restless Companions of Prodigality. 1781Cowper Retirem. 21 Cities, humming with a restless crowd. 1836Thirlwall Greece xxiv. III. 335 Alcibiades,..restless and sanguine, had much more to hope than to fear from war. 1888F. Hume Mme. Midas i. i, She was too restless and ambitious a nature, to be content with an idle life.
b. So of the thoughts, mind, etc.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 184 Continually incited with the insatiable and restles desire of soueraignty. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 526 Where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts. 1759Dilworth Pope 71 Mr. Pope is much indebted to the restless spirit of correction Swift was possessed of. 1778F. Burney Evelina lxxxii, Great joy is as restless as sorrow. 1807Crabbe Par. Reg. iii. 512 All the reason, by himself assign'd For so much rambling, was, a restless mind. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) II. 496 Both of them parts of one scheme devised in the restless brain of the Mercian Earl.
Comb.c1712Dangerous Present 1 The malicious and dangerous Designs of the restless Spirited Whigs. 1914‘Saki’ When William Came vi. 101 You must remember that thousands and thousands of the more virile and restless-souled men have emigrated.
†c. Const. to (with inf.) or of: Impatient. Obs.
1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 511 When I was at Home, I was restless to go abroad; and now I was abroad, I was restless to be at Home. 1725Pope Odyss. ii. 9 By his Heralds, restless of delay, To council [he] calls the Peers.
d. spec. in animal and bird names, as restless cavy, restless fly-catcher, restless thrush.
1771Pennant Syn. Quadrup. 243 *Restless Cavy. 1838Penny Cycl. XI. 480/2 Guinea-Pig..(Restless Cavy), the well-known Brasilian rodent now domesticated in Europe. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 277 The Restless Cavy (Cavia aperea), found throughout Uruguay and Brazil, is supposed to be the wild form of the Guinea-pig of Europe.
1848Gould Birds Australia II. pl. 87 Seisura Inquieta, *Restless Flycatcher; The Grinder, of the Colonists of Swan River and New South Wales. 1898Morris Austral Eng. 122/2 Dishwasher,..applied in Australia to..the Restless Fly⁓catcher.
1801Latham Gen. Synop. Birds 2nd Suppl. 181 *Restless Thrush. 1817J. F. Stephens in Shaw Gen. Zool. X. i. 263 The Restless Thrush inhabits New Holland.
3. a. Of conditions: Unceasing, continuous.
c1398Chaucer Fortune 70 This world hath euer resteles trauayle. 1588Greene Pandosto (1843) 10 Those which were the cause of his restles sorrow. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. iv. 81 Princes..often feele a world of restlesse Cares. 1634Milton Comus 596 It shall be in eternal restless change Self-fed, and self-consum'd. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 6 By their Arts..were Sir Philip Howard, and Company in a restless manner urged to give Answers. 1701F. Manning Poems 8 What compensation will you make For giving me Love s restless Pains?
b. Of things: Continually moving or operating; never ceasing or pausing.
1596Spenser F.Q. v. x. 33 With restlesse force Into his shield it readie passage found. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. vi. 30 That Goddesse blind, that stands vpon the rolling restlesse Stone. a1618Sylvester Little Bartas 364 The daily Course Of restlesse Stars. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. iii. 457 The courser pawed the ground with restless feet. 1781Cowper Hope 3 A painful passage o'er a restless flood. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 365 They are..active, with peculiar features, and a quick and restless eye. 1878Seeley Stein I. 232 For a moment it was reasonable to hope that she [France] would also sheathe her restless sword.
Comb.1777Potter æschylus, 7 Chiefs agst. Thebes 161 The rude plunderers' restless-rolling tide. 1889W. B. Yeats Wanderings of Oisin ii. 24 Where goes to gaze the restless-footed star Of twilight when he's weary.
4. quasi-adv. = restlessly.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 527 Sesounez schal yow neuer sese of sede ne of heruest,..Bot euer renne restlez. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 370 The tyme, that passeth nyght and daye And restlesse trauayleth aye. c1470Gol. & Gaw. 113 The renk restles he raid to Arthour the king. 1810Splendid Follies II. 119 Emily Camelion slept very restless. |