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To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms.

That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down When in the down I sink my head, Sleep, Death's twin brother, times my breath. Tennyson. Thou bosom softness, down of all my cares! Southern.

The time of retiring to rest; time of repose. Cavendish. At the downlying, at the travail in childbirth. [Scot.]

The act of sitting down; repose; a resting. Thou knowest my downsitting and my uprising. Ps. cxxxix. 2.

anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; - - often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind. Eased [from] the putting off These troublesome disguises which we wear. Milton. Sing, and I 'll ease thy shoulders of thy load. Dryden.…

An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.

Hence: Calm; quiet; peaceful; undisturbed; happy. "Deep, halcyon repose." De Quincy.

Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.

n; habitually idle; lazy; inactive; as, an indolent man. To waste long nights in indolent repose. Pope.

as, to meditate a war. I meditate to pass the remainder of life in a state of undisturbed repose. Washington.

Any medicine that contains opium, and has the quality of inducing sleep or repose; a narcotic.

the hart panteth after the water brooks. Ps. xlii. 1. Who pants for glory finds but short repose. Pope.

A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose; specifically:

Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. Shak.

The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; teachery. The ambition and perfidy of tyrants. Macaulay. His perfidy to this sacred engagement. DeQuincey.

To set; to fix; to repose; as, to place confidence in a friend. "My resolution 's placed." Shak.

press; as, we press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd. Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together. Luke vi. 38.

to trial, or on trial, to bring to a test; to try. -- To put trust in, to confide in; to repose confidence in. -- To put up. (a) To pass unavenged; to overlook; not to punish or resent; to put up with; as, to put up indignities. [Obs.] "Such national injuries are not to be put up." Addison. (b) To send forth or upwar…

Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.

The quality or state of being quiet, or in repose; as an hour or a time of quiet.