Rest

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - rest

According to the Old English Dictionary:

In Bl. H. 11, 16, 19 the word seems to be of the weak declension.

rest
II. add :-- [Niht]licere ræste nocturnae quieti l somno, An. Ox. 2197. III. add :-- Þín gást bið on heofonum, and þín rest ne losað nǽfre on worulde, Hml. S. 15, 67. Hé æfter þám gereordum ræste séceð, dýgle stówe under dúnscræfum, Pa. 36. Ðeáh þe þá rícestan hátan him reste gewyrcan of marmanstáne, Wlfst. 263, 2. Ræste sécan, bed æfter búrum, B. 139. Ðá formo hræsto primos accubitos, Lk. L. 14, 7.

Related words: búr-, brýd-, eorþ-, ge-, líc-, undern-rest. rest

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