单词 | rested |
释义 | restedadj.1 1. a. Refreshed by rest or sleep. Cf. well-rested adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective] > refreshed or invigorated fresha1387 refetc1400 breatheda1425 refect?a1425 restedc1425 well-rested1525 refreshed1552 enlivened1640 renovated1650 invigorate1720 refreshened1764 recreated1832 reanimated1871 reanimate1885 pepped-up1916 perked-up1930 c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 5737 (MED) Priamus then his men calles; He brought thre thousand fresch & rested. a1450 (a1400) Siege Jerusalem (BL Add.) (1932) l. 605 Ȝit wer þe Romayns..ristede as þey fro R[ome] come. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Certaine Sonets in Arcadia (1598) sig. Rr3 The Nightingale as soone as Aprill bringeth Vnto her rested sense a perfect waking,..Sings out her woes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Reposé, reposed, rested. 1794 G. Colman Mountaineers iii. ii. 29 How merry, then the rested traveller Seems, while sitting at the Goatherd's door. 1811 R. Bloomfield Banks of Wye iii. 72 Onward the rested steeds pursu'd The cheerful route, with strength renew'd. 1890 C. W. R. Cooke Four Years in Parl. 64 Epigrams are the product of a rested brain. 1894 H. Gardiner Unob. Patagonia 277 A sudden onrush of fresh, eager, rested, enthusiastic men. 1915 Fortn. Rev. 1 Jan. 2 The unceasing stream of fresh, rested troops from West Europe may any day make matters equal. 1999 A. Arensberg Incubus iv. x. 106 ‘With all due respect, mère,’ I ventured, ‘you don't look rested.’ b. Originally and chiefly U.S. With up. Chiefly in predicative use. Cf. to rest up at rest v.1 Phrasal verbs. ΚΠ 1863 H. O'Brien Aunt Betsy's Rule xxvii. 192 You've taken a sight of care of Sam, and I have got real rested up. 1922 E. 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. 1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer xxi. 201 I guess we're all rested up. Come along, boys. 1948 J. E. Haley Jeff Milton 182 Jeff would sell him a rested-up horse and mule. 2006 H. Hughes Frommer's 500 Places to take your Kids i. 34/2 The train tours make overnight stops at proper hotels, where you can get rested up for tomorrow's jaw-dropping sights. 2. Of land: left uncultivated for a period of time; fallow. Cf. rest v.1 5c. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > fallow leac1330 fallow1377 restiff?1440 faugha1522 rested1600 resty1601 summer fallow1601 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlix. 317 Bishops weede..groweth chiefly in rested grounds. 1640 J. Gower tr. Ovid Festivalls iv. 90 The rested fields gave huge encrease of grain, Whose crouded treasures barns could scarce contein. 1784 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. III: Pt. i. 272 My way has been to lay on the sward at the rate of 160 bolls of five Winchester bushels of lime in powder per acre; sometimes more, but never less on old rested land. 1808 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 May 780 I have already denied..that ‘rested fields’ are always, or indeed, ever ready for the plough. 1894 Timehri 8 119 Plants should be established whenever possible on new or rested land. 1919 Bull. Maryland Agric. Exper. Station Jan. 180 The rested land undoubtedly contained more organic matter than the soil which had been continuously cropped to tobacco. 2007 Hort. Week (Nexis) 15 Nov. 19 We've employed rotational cropping for the past few seasons, using Phacelia tanacetifolia to grow on rested land. 3. Scottish. Of a fire: damped down for the night. Cf. rest v.1 6d. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [adjective] > of a fire: made up for the night resteda1774 a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 165 The cruizy too can only blink and bleer, The restit ingle's done the maist it dow. 1867 W. Donaldson Queen Martyr 52 He..tried to stir the restit peats. 1899 G. Greig Logie o' Buchan iv. 70 She sat long by the ‘reested’ fire, weeping bitter..tears of chagrin. 1979 J. J. Graham Shetland Dict. 69/1 Restit, smoored, as a restit fire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † restedadj.2 Obsolete. Of a lance, spear, etc.: placed against its rest (rest n.2 2a). ΚΠ 1568 R. D. Exhort. to Eng. sig. A.iij At Poytiers note our fight with Bow and rested Launce. 1773 tr. C. M. Wieland Reason Triumphant over Fancy I. i. v. 22 Knights armed, who, with rested lances, had from age to age been tilting at each other. 1783 J. Hoole tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso III. xxiii. 139 He..ran against the knight of France; And him Orlando met with rested lance. 1801 J. B. Burges Richard I I. ix. 306 Spurring their coursers fleet, The Hospitallers bold, with rested spear, Rush'd o'er the field the Saracens to meet. 1880 Mrs. N. Furlong Cozenza 145 With rested lance he bowed touching the mane Of his fine charger, and arose again. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1c1425adj.21568 |
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