Index of English words, starting with "re"

(1) - Responsory (n.) An antiphonary; a response book.
(2) - Responsory (n.) A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain.
(3) - Responsory (n.) The answer of the people to the priest in alternate speaking, in church service.
(4) - Responsory (a.) Containing or making answer; answering.

(1) - Rest (n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
(2) - Rest (n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
(3) - Rest (n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
(4) - Rest (n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
(5) - Rest (n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
(6) - Rest (n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
(7) - Rest (n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
(8) - Rest (n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
(9) - Rest (n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
(10) - Rest (n.) A set or game at tennis.
(11) - Rest (v. t.) To arrest.
(12) - Rest (n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
(13) - Rest (v. i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
(14) - Rest (n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
(15) - Rest (n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
(16) - Rest (n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
(17) - Rest (n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
(18) - Rest (n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
(19) - Rest (v. t.) To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
(20) - Rest (v. t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
(21) - Rest (n.) That which is left, or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
(22) - Rest (n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
(23) - Rest (n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
(24) - Rest (n.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.