Meaning of resty | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Restive, resistant to control.
   British, regional
2. Disposed to rest; inactive, lazy.
   British, regional

Examples

“In vaine the Pagan bannes, and sweares, and rayles, / And backe with both his hands unto him hayles / The resty raynes […]”

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“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.”

““Catch⟳ hold⟳ of the pack-beasts!” I shouted, as they shied back upon us, and two were caught and held fast—I know⟳ not by whom. The third, the resty one, springing backwards past me, almost on his haunches, jerked his halter wide of my clutch, and in a moment was galloping full flight down the slope.”

“[…] Come⟳; our stomachs / Will make⟳ what’s homely savoury: weariness / Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard.”

“[A]ll [beef] is rejected and unfit for such as lead⟳ a resty life, anyways inclined to melancholy, or dry of complexion […]”

“[W]hat are Chaplains? In State perhaps they may be listed among the upper Servingmen of som great houshold, and be admitted to som such place⟳, as may stile them the Sewers, or the Yeomen-Ushers of Devotion, where the Maister is too restie, or too rich to say⟳ his own⟳ prayers, or to bless his own⟳ Table.”

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