REST (O. Eng. rest, reste,

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• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed, cognate with other

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably

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• GOTHIC

Gothic Rasta,

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• LEAGUE

league, i.e. resting or stopping

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• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

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