Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A later form of restive, now obsolete. See restive.
  • Same as reasty for reasted.
  • An obsolete or dialectal form of rusty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Restive.
  • adjective obsolete Disposed to rest; inactive, lazy.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Variant of restiff.

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Examples

  • As our favorite tab In Touch Magazine is reporting, on November 2, the Earth could not contain the mighty forces occurring at some trendy resty in West Hollywood, a fight so mighty, so gorgeous, that it seems pretty obvious at least 3 to 4 small villages in China were shaken off the map and are floating in our atmosphere as we speak.

    Did You Feel the Earth Shake? Or Are George Clooney and Fabio Fighting Again? | Best Week Ever 2007

  • August 10, 2009 at 11:19 am an denn teh ‘stensive famibloly hadda a meel togevver at a resty-raunt, an after dat a hope-in haus at brydes’ familolby.

    Sister Mary Frances kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • I know, wii go down teh street to teh tye plase not bootique, iz resty-rant, and have sume a bubblolly drinky wiff dose tappy-okey bawls in it! yoo pree-furr mango or Lychee?

    A.D.D. cat is… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • “I could not come a moment sooner; I hardly expected to get here at all, for my horse has been so confounded resty I could not tell how to get him along.”

    Cecilia 2008

  • Aubanus and Sabellicus commend Portugal beef to be the most savoury, best and easiest of digestion; we commend ours: but all is rejected, and unfit for such as lead a resty life, any ways inclined to melancholy, or dry of complexion: Tales (Galen thinks) de facile melancholicis aegritudinibus capiuntur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “Ally avec les dam com a Parry, ou resty avec les Messew com on Onglyterre?”

    Mens Wives 2006

  • I found a black faux fur bed-resty-thingy with fluffy arms that I bought for leaning up against while I sit in bed to read and sip chianti work.

    an educational experience fenrah 2004

  • Whatever court he went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed, and brought them into his measures.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • I also did my fair share of eating this weekend, including my favorite resty in Miami, Versailles, an authentic Cuban eatery where I once had the honor of shaking Bob Dole's left hand.

    Archive 2005-08-01 Michelle Collins 2005

  • I also did my fair share of eating this weekend, including my favorite resty in Miami, Versailles, an authentic Cuban eatery where I once had the honor of shaking Bob Dole's left hand.

    You've Been So Patient... Michelle Collins 2005

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