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REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, See also: regular See also: work, hence a See also: time of See also: relief from See also: mental or See also: manual labour
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Specific meanings are for an See also: interval of silence in See also: 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; and for the support for the cue in See also: billiards to be used when the striking See also: ball is out of reach of the natural rest formed by the See also: hand
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In the See also: medieval See also: armour of the horsed See also: man-at-arms, and later in the armour of the See also: tournament, a contrivance was fixed to the See also: side of the See also: body-armour near the right arm-pit, in which the See also: butt-end of the See also: lance was placed to prevent the lance being driven back after striking the opponent at full See also: charge; hence a knight, as a preliminary to the charge, " laid his lance in rest." This " rest" is a shortened See also: form of " arrest," to check, stop, as is seen by the French See also: equivalent, arret
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Further, " rest," that which remains over and above, is derived from the French rester, to remain over, See also: Lat. restare, to remain, literally, to stay behind
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The See also: principal specific use of this word is in commerce for the balance of undivided profit; it has thus always been the See also: term used by the See also: Bank of See also: England for that which in other See also: banks and companies is called the " reserve " (See also: Hartley Withers, The Meaning of See also: Money (l000)
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D.' 298)
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The Bank of
England " rest " is never allowed to fall below £3,000,000 (See BANKS AND BANKING)
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