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To REST, v. a. To lay to rest. 
Your piety has paid 
All needful rites, to rest my wand’ring shade. Dry den. 
To place as on a support. 
Here rests his head upon the lap of earth, 
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown. Gray, 
REST'AGNANT, adj. [ restagnans, Lat.] Remaining 
without flow or motion.-—-Upon the tops of high mountains, 
the air, which bears against the restagnant quicksilver, is 
less pressed by the less ponderous incumbent air. Boyle. 
To RESTA'GNATE, v. n. To stand without flow.—The 
blood returns thick, and is apt to restagnate. Wiseman. 
RESTAGNA'TION, s. The state of standing without 
flow, course, or motion. 
RESTALRIG, an ancient barony and parish of Scotland, 
in Mid-Lothian, now united to South Leith. The ruinous 
church of Restalrig stands in a hollow plain, about a mile 
east of Edinburgh. 
RESTAUR, Restor, in Ancient Customs, the remedy or 
recourse which assurers have against each other, according 
to the date of their assurances; or against the masters, if the 
loss arise through their default; as through ill loading, 
want of caulking, or want of having the vessel tight. 
The word is also used for the remedy, or recourse,-a person 
has against his guarantee, or other person, who is to indem¬ 
nify him from any damage sustained. Hence restaurant 
and restauration. In the lower Latin they also use the 
words restor and restaur. 
RESTAURATION, s. [restauro, Lat.] The act of re¬ 
covering to the former state. 
O my dear father! restauration hang 
Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss 
Repair those violent harms, that my two sisters 
Have in thy reverence made. Shakspeare. 
In England we say restoration, by way of eminence, for 
the return of king Charles II. in 1660, after the civil wars. 
The 29lh of May is an anniversary festival, appointed 
to be held in commemoration of the restoration of regal and 
episcopal government, by stat. 12 Car. II. c. 14. 
We shall here observe, that the form of prayer for the 
29th of May, as well as for the 30th of January, were of a 
different complexion in the reign of king Charles II. from 
the present, of which the reason is said to be this: the par¬ 
liament and other leading men, who were active in his 
restoration, and who had been concerned in opposing his 
father’s measures, would not be called traitors; and required 
that a distinction should be made between the commence¬ 
ment of the war and the conclusion of it; they would not 
suffer the first opposition made to the measures of that un¬ 
happy prince to be styled rebellion, though they disapproved 
of the abolition of regal government which ensued. 
And accordingly the offices for these two solemnities 
were drawn up, without any reflection on the first authors 
or promoters of the opposition, and, in general, breathe 
more a spirit of piety than of party, of humiliation than of 
revenge; and, throughout, are modest, grave, decent, sen¬ 
sible, and devout. King James II. altered these forms, and 
king William did not venture to reduce them to their primi¬ 
tive state; and so they have continued, with very little varia¬ 
tion, to this day. 
To RESTE'M, v. a . To force back against the current. 
How they restem 
Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance 
Toward Cyprus. Shakspeare. 
RE'STFUL, adj. Quiet; being at rest. 
Is not my arm of length, 
That reacheth from the restful English court, 
As far as Calais to my uncle’s head ? Shakspeare , 
RE'STFULLY, adv. In a state of quiet.—They living 
restfully , and in health, unto extreme age. Sir T. Elyot. 
RESTHA'RROW, s. A plant. See Ononis. 
RESTIACEiE, in Botany, a natural order of plants, first 
separated from the Junci of Jussieu, by Mr. Brown, Prodr. 
Vol. XXII. No. 1481. 
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Nov. Hoik v. 1. 234, and named from one of its chief 
genera. See Restio. 
RESTIARIA, a name given by Rumphius, in his Her¬ 
barium Amboinense, v. 3. 187, to two or three different 
shrubs, on account of their fitness for ropes, or cordage; 
restiarius being a sort of base Latin word for a rope-maker. 
The first of these, R. alba, t. 119, is a very well-marked 
genus, for which the name might have been retained; but 
Linnaeus, in his Supplernentum, has called that genus Com- 
mersonia, after the example of Forster, in his Nova Genera, 
fi 22. See Commersonia. 
RE'STIFF, adj. [restivus, low Lat.] Standing still; unwil¬ 
ling to stir; resolute against going forward; obstinate; stubborn. 
It is originally used of a horse, that, though not wearied, will not 
be driven forward.—The archangel, when discord was restive , 
and would not be drawn from her beloved monastery with fair 
words, drags her out with many stripes. Dry den.- —Being 
at rest; being less in motion. Not used. —Palsies oftenest 
happen upon the left side; the most vigorous part protect¬ 
ing itself, and protruding the matter upon the weaker and 
restive side. Brown. 
RE'STIFNESS, s. Obstinate reluctance.—.Overt virtues 
bring forth praise ; but secret virtues bring forth fortune: 
certain deliveries of a man’s self, which the Spanish name 
desemboltura partly expresseth; when there be no stands 
nor restiveness in a man’s nature; but the wheels of his 
mind keep way with the wheels of his fortune. Bacon. 
RESTI'NCTION, s. [restinctus, Lat.] The act of ex¬ 
tinguishing. 
RE'STINGPLACE, s. A place of rest.—I have brought 
you to a very commodious resting-place in this argument. 
Coventry . 
To RESTI'NGUISH, v. a. [restinguo, Lat.] To extin¬ 
guish..—Hence the thirst of languishing souls is restinguished , 
as from the most pure fountains of living water. Dr. Field, 
RESTIO, [from restio, a rope, halter, or cable, for 
making which these plants are fit.] in botany a genus of the 
class dioecia, order triandria, natural order of calama- 
rise. Generic Character. Male.—Calyx: ament ovate or 
oblong, many flowered: scales coriaceous, keeled. Peri¬ 
anth six-leaved, compressed : leaflets nearly equal; three 
outer, of which two are boat-shaped, the third flat; three 
inner, lanceolate, thinner, one wider than the others. 
Corolla none, except the three inner glumes. Stamina: 
filaments three, flatfish. Anthers oblong. Female.— 
Calyx and corolla as in the male. Pistil: germ three-sided. 
Style single, rarely double, very rarely triple. Stigma 
seldom simple, very frequently two, very rarely three, 
feathered. Thunb. Essential Character. —Calyx three- 
leaved, two of the leaflets boat-shaped. Corolla three¬ 
leaved, leaflets lanceolate, one wider. Female: germ three- 
sided. Style one, seldom two or three. Stigmas one, two,. • 
three, feathered. 
!. Restio paniculatus.-—Stem frondose,-spikes panicled. 
2. Restio verticillaris.—Branches in whorls jointed, 
panicle compound contracted. This resembles restio 
elegia, but differs in having the branches in whorls about 
the stem. 
3. Restio dichotomus.—Culms dichotomous, spikes 
solitary. This is often barren, and as it were viviparous 
with very minute leaves which have a few between them. 
At the Cape of Good Hope, they make besoms of this 
species to sweep their floors with. 
4. Restio viinineus.-—Cukns simple, spikes corymbed.— 
Spikes very many, collected on capillary loose pedicels. 
5. Restio triflorus.—Culms simple leafy, spikes alternate 
sessile. 
6. Restio simplex.—Culms simple, spike terminating. 
This has been found at New Zealand as well as the Cape. 
7. Restio elegia..—Culms simple, spike glomerate, spathes 
partial, vague, simple. This has the appearance of a rush. 
Culms several, a foot high, round, even, not hollow, 
tough, quite simple, scarcely the thickness of a quill, 
having one knot. Leaves scarcely any. Leafy sheaths two 
or three, towards the root, imbricate, even, brown, slightly 
E mucronate 
