† restyadj.¹

Forms: Middle English–1800s resty, 1500s–1600s restie.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymons: French restet, rester.

Etymology: Apparently < Old French restet, resté left over, past participle of rester rest v.³; compare -y suffix⁵. Compare Anglo-Norman reste rancid, although this may also represent a monosyllabic form (see rest adj.). Compare reasty adj., rusty adj.² Compare later rest adj.

Obsolete.

Esp. of bacon, fat, etc.: stale, rancid. Cf. reasty adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > rank or rancid

restya1325

rest1381

rammishc1395

areast1440

reested?c1475

reesed1486

musty1492

rusty?1521

turned1548

reasty1573

froughy1579

flatten1594

reasy1598

rammy1607

rancid1627

loud1641

ranked1648

virous1661

ranciduous1688

raftya1722

virose1756

reeky1854

loud-flavoured1866

a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 155 Chars restez [glossed] resty flees.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 14 A-reste, or resty, as flesche, rancidus.

c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. A. 2206 (MED) To goo so ferre for a litell bacon flycche And hath longe hanged and is resty and toughe..the waye..is comerous and thicke.

1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.v These ben the fumosytees, salte soure resty fatte.

a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) ix. 149 Barelled butter, the whych is resty & salt.

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 297 Put thereto Larde that is neither restie, nor ouersalted.

1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 30 This butter..is not then to be endured, it is so restie and loathsome.

1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 232 O happy beggars! my wife boyled nothing here this day, besides Coleworts and resty Bacon.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 223 The Fat of the Meat be resty, or dry'd away, so as not to be eaten.

1826 New Monthly Mag. 17 367 A man of an adust, swarthy, choleric dye, like resty bacon, or a dried scalefish.

1876 A. H. Church Food iii. 162 Cured bacon sometimes become rancid or resty through exposure to air.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

restyadj.²adv.

Brit.

/ˈrɛsti/, U.S.

/ˈrɛsti/

Forms:

α. late Middle English reste, 1500s restye, 1500s–1600s restie, 1500s– resty, 1600s restey, 1600s–1700s wresty, 1700s rusty.

β. 1500s reasty, 1500s–1600s reastie, 1700s reisty; English regional 1800s– reasty, 1800s– reesty (Yorkshire).

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: restiff adj.

Etymology: Variant of restiff adj.; compare hasty adj., tardy adj. Compare earlier rest v.² and later restive adj. In branch II. probably influenced in sense by rest n.¹ and rest v.¹; compare Middle Low German restich and also Dutch rustig (17th cent.), Middle Low German rustich, all in sense ‘quiet, inactive’.The β. forms indicate the existence of variants with a long vowel, although such forms are not found for restiff adj. or restive adj., and only very rarely for rest v.³; perhaps compare also forms at rest v.¹, although the more likely connection is perhaps with rest v.² and reest v.³ In later use these forms overlap with those of reesty adj., and it seems likely that a partial merger may have occurred, especially in sense 1a. Modern examples with spellings indicating a long vowel in meanings corresponding to sense 1a have been placed at reesty adj. rather than at this entry, but in some cases the assignment is uncertain. Compare also rusty adj.³

I. Resisting control.

1. Refusing to go forward, refractory, resisting control. Later also: restless, fidgety. Cf. restive adj. 1 and reesty adj. Now chiefly regional.

a. Of a horse or other animal. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [adjective] > stubborn or restive

restiffc1390

restyc1465

stiff-necked1526

hard-headed?1532

restive1549

rusty1555

hard-mouthed1565

unwayed1607

haunty1657

nappy1924

c1465 Care of Horses (Yale Beinecke 163) f. 51 For a reste hors. Take a whippe corde iiiij fold and make ther-of of a shakille a-boue the coddis.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 322/2 Restye as a horse is, restif, restifue.

1581 N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience Prol. sig. Aij The good road horsse, if still at racke he stande, To resty Iade will soone transformed be.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 66 Th' Oxe, over-fat, too strong, and restie, leaps About the Lands, casteth his yoake, and strikes.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. i. 12 Beasts grow fierce and resty if not tamed and broken in youth.

1702 D. Defoe More Reformation 730 An Author who we can not understand, Is like a Resty Horse at no Command.

1731 J. Tull New Horse-houghing Husbandry 167 When that rich Land..is grown too vigorous and resty, they may soon take down its Mettle, by Sowing it a few Years in their Old Husbandry.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. i. vi. 83 My horse has been so confounded resty I could not tell how to get him along.

1837 Temper 186 A resty horse.

1860 A. Strickland Old Friends v. 163 He could tame the most resty horse in my lord's stables.

1920 A. Huxley Leda 40 The machine is ready to start. The symbolic beasts grow resty, curveting where they stand.

1977 J. Aiken Five-minute Marriage viii. 126 He guided his horses around the corner... The team appeared to be a trifle fresh and resty.

b. Of a person. Also as adv. (cf. to run restive at restive adj. Phrases).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > intractable or recalcitrant

unbuxoma1250

unbowsomec1290

sturdy13..

wildc1350

stubbornc1386

unbaina1400

stoutc1410

kimeta1450

staffish?a1513

untractable1538

intractable1545

sullen1577

restiff1578

indocile1603

resty1603

hot-mouthed1609

immorigerous1623

intractive1623

uncompliable1626

restivea1628

non-complying1649

uncompliant1659

incompliant1706

unobliging1707

recalcitrant1797

unbiddable1825

stocky1836

recalcitrary1861

calcitrant1866

non-cooperative1867

recalcitrating1870

ropeable1870

non-cooperating1895

bolshie1918

1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars iv. li. 93 Which euen growne restie by your power, with-draw Your stifned necks, as freed from ciuill awe.

a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 79 The resty mindes that kick at present greatness.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. i. 377 He must be very Resty that will not allow it for probable at least.

1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 16 Some children are naturally resty and stubborn, even at three or four.

1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 18 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1262 Whatever Court he [sc. the Duke of Marlborough] went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed.

1794 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 411 If Paris runs resty, the revolution is done.

a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 40 Reasty.., restive, unruly; also pettish, quarrelsome; in a bad humour.

1905 H. L. Wilson Boss Little Arcady vi. 79 Then afteh while Little Miss she git resty an' tehible fractious an' she go off t' Baltimoah t' teach.

†2. Of conduct, an action, etc.: characterized by resistance to control. Cf. restive adj. 4. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > intractable or recalcitrant > of actions, conduct, or character

restya1586

rusty1625

restive1652

restiff1678

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 33 But now, spite of my heart my tongue will stay,..And no spurre can this restie race refraine.

1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §35 The ill and resty tricks, they have learn'd when young.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 343 I often have..to Sing deny'd, But not through resty Peevishness, nor Pride.

II. Involving rest or lack of activity.

†3. Unoccupied, idle. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [adjective]

idlec950

tooma1340

unoccupiedc1405

void1530

restyc1540

unbusied1570

idlefula1652

haking1703

unbusy1731

otiose1850

non-employed1853

c1540 tr. Pol. Ver. Eng. Hist. (Camden No. 36) 84 The Romaine soldiers, beinge restie [L. a laboribus vacui], beeganne to quarrell emonge them selves.

a. Disinclined to work or exert oneself; sluggish, lazy; inactive. Cf. restive adj. 2. Now regional.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective]

unlustyc1225

sleepyc1384

phlegmatica1400

listlessc1440

owlist1440

unlisty1440

phlegmyc1450

sweyntc1450

supine1554

resty1565

unactive1591

sleepy-headed1600

log-like1602

inertious1611

stupefied?1611

lethargic1612

sedentary1625

torpent1647

torpid1656

torpulent1657

softly1664

inert1774

vegetative1789

spiritless1798

unenergetic1805

sloomy1820

slow-going1825

inenergetic1826

comatose1828

moony1847

mooning1864

torpid-minded1909

narcoleptic1965

vegged1986

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Desuetudo Resides, &..tardi, restie and slow for lacke of vse.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiv. 10) Thyne enemies surmyze thee to be restie and ydle bycause thou bestirrest thee not.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions iv. 20 Yet must not this quickling be suffered to do nothing at all, for feare he grow reasty.

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. i, in Wks. I. 533 Hee would growe resty else in his ease: his vertue would rust without action.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxiv. 192 Som great houshold..where the Maister is too restie, or too rich to say his own Prayers.

1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iv. i. 54 O what a difference will she find betwixt a dull resty Husband, and a quick vigorous Lover.

a1704 T. Brown London & Lacedemonian Oracles in Wks. (1709) III. iii. 140 If that City were once destroy'd, the Romans would prove reisty and effeminate.

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. i. 189 The Sun, and..the fresh Air of fanning Breezes..exercise the resty Plants, and scour the unactive Globe.

1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI. i. 121/2 Resty, indolent; prone to take rest when one should be active; lazy.

1930 Amer. Speech 5 428 The hillman's adjective resty, meaning indolent, is another Shakespearian survival.

1942 M. Campbell Cloud-walking 28 They put him down as being too resty to do no work.

†b. Of conditions: characterized by sluggishness, indolence, or inactivity. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > [adjective] > characterized by inaction or inactivity > specifically of conditions

resty1602

1602 C. Sutton Disce Vivere x. §9. 218 In continuall ease, in a restie slouthfulnesse voyde of all trauaile.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 107 You might shortly behold the idle and restie diseases of a divided multitude..substantially cured.

1628 T. Venner Via Recta (new ed.) iv. 49 To those that leade a resty or studious kinde of life, it is very hurtfull.

†5. Of land: fallow, untilled. Cf. restiff adj. 3. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > fallow

leac1330

fallow1377

restiff?1440

faugha1522

rested1600

resty1601

summer fallow1601

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xix It is thought sufficient for a teem of oxen to breake up (at the first tilth) in one day of restie or ley ground, one acre.

1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xvii. 99 All old, Resty Land, that hath not bin Tilled of late.

Compounds

Appositive (in sense 4a).

† resty stiff adj. Obsolete rare

ΚΠ

1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. F3^v Presently they are as resty stiffe, As twere a many ouer ridden iades.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	resty
释义	† restyadj.¹ Forms: Middle English–1800s resty, 1500s–1600s restie. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymons: French restet, rester. Etymology: Apparently < Old French restet, resté left over, past participle of rester rest v.³; compare -y suffix⁵. Compare Anglo-Norman reste rancid, although this may also represent a monosyllabic form (see rest adj.). Compare reasty adj., rusty adj.² Compare later rest adj. Obsolete. Esp. of bacon, fat, etc.: stale, rancid. Cf. reasty adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] > rank or rancid restya1325 rest1381 rammishc1395 areast1440 reested?c1475 reesed1486 musty1492 rusty?1521 turned1548 reasty1573 froughy1579 flatten1594 reasy1598 rammy1607 rancid1627 loud1641 ranked1648 virous1661 ranciduous1688 raftya1722 virose1756 reeky1854 loud-flavoured1866 a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 155 Chars restez [glossed] resty flees. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 14 A-reste, or resty, as flesche, rancidus. c1475 (c1450) P. Idley Instr. to his Son (Cambr.) (1935) ii. A. 2206 (MED) To goo so ferre for a litell bacon flycche And hath longe hanged and is resty and toughe..the waye..is comerous and thicke. 1508 Bk. Keruynge (de Worde) sig. A.v These ben the fumosytees, salte soure resty fatte. a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) ix. 149 Barelled butter, the whych is resty & salt. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 297 Put thereto Larde that is neither restie, nor ouersalted. 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 30 This butter..is not then to be endured, it is so restie and loathsome. 1671 H. M. tr. Erasmus Colloquies 232 O happy beggars! my wife boyled nothing here this day, besides Coleworts and resty Bacon. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 223 The Fat of the Meat be resty, or dry'd away, so as not to be eaten. 1826 New Monthly Mag. 17 367 A man of an adust, swarthy, choleric dye, like resty bacon, or a dried scalefish. 1876 A. H. Church Food iii. 162 Cured bacon sometimes become rancid or resty through exposure to air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020). restyadj.²adv. Brit. /ˈrɛsti/, U.S. /ˈrɛsti/ Forms: α. late Middle English reste, 1500s restye, 1500s–1600s restie, 1500s– resty, 1600s restey, 1600s–1700s wresty, 1700s rusty. β. 1500s reasty, 1500s–1600s reastie, 1700s reisty; English regional 1800s– reasty, 1800s– reesty (Yorkshire). Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: restiff adj. Etymology: Variant of restiff adj.; compare hasty adj., tardy adj. Compare earlier rest v.² and later restive adj. In branch II. probably influenced in sense by rest n.¹ and rest v.¹; compare Middle Low German restich and also Dutch rustig (17th cent.), Middle Low German rustich, all in sense ‘quiet, inactive’.The β. forms indicate the existence of variants with a long vowel, although such forms are not found for restiff adj. or restive adj., and only very rarely for rest v.³; perhaps compare also forms at rest v.¹, although the more likely connection is perhaps with rest v.² and reest v.³ In later use these forms overlap with those of reesty adj., and it seems likely that a partial merger may have occurred, especially in sense 1a. Modern examples with spellings indicating a long vowel in meanings corresponding to sense 1a have been placed at reesty adj. rather than at this entry, but in some cases the assignment is uncertain. Compare also rusty adj.³ I. Resisting control. 1. Refusing to go forward, refractory, resisting control. Later also: restless, fidgety. Cf. restive adj. 1 and reesty adj. Now chiefly regional. a. Of a horse or other animal. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [adjective] > stubborn or restive restiffc1390 restyc1465 stiff-necked1526 hard-headed?1532 restive1549 rusty1555 hard-mouthed1565 unwayed1607 haunty1657 nappy1924 c1465 Care of Horses (Yale Beinecke 163) f. 51 For a reste hors. Take a whippe corde iiiij fold and make ther-of of a shakille a-boue the coddis. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 322/2 Restye as a horse is, restif, restifue. 1581 N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience Prol. sig. Aij The good road horsse, if still at racke he stande, To resty Iade will soone transformed be. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 66 Th' Oxe, over-fat, too strong, and restie, leaps About the Lands, casteth his yoake, and strikes. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. i. 12 Beasts grow fierce and resty if not tamed and broken in youth. 1702 D. Defoe More Reformation 730 An Author who we can not understand, Is like a Resty Horse at no Command. 1731 J. Tull New Horse-houghing Husbandry 167 When that rich Land..is grown too vigorous and resty, they may soon take down its Mettle, by Sowing it a few Years in their Old Husbandry. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia I. i. vi. 83 My horse has been so confounded resty I could not tell how to get him along. 1837 Temper 186 A resty horse. 1860 A. Strickland Old Friends v. 163 He could tame the most resty horse in my lord's stables. 1920 A. Huxley Leda 40 The machine is ready to start. The symbolic beasts grow resty, curveting where they stand. 1977 J. Aiken Five-minute Marriage viii. 126 He guided his horses around the corner... The team appeared to be a trifle fresh and resty. b. Of a person. Also as adv. (cf. to run restive at restive adj. Phrases). ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > intractable or recalcitrant unbuxoma1250 unbowsomec1290 sturdy13.. wildc1350 stubbornc1386 unbaina1400 stoutc1410 kimeta1450 staffish?a1513 untractable1538 intractable1545 sullen1577 restiff1578 indocile1603 resty1603 hot-mouthed1609 immorigerous1623 intractive1623 uncompliable1626 restivea1628 non-complying1649 uncompliant1659 incompliant1706 unobliging1707 recalcitrant1797 unbiddable1825 stocky1836 recalcitrary1861 calcitrant1866 non-cooperative1867 recalcitrating1870 ropeable1870 non-cooperating1895 bolshie1918 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars iv. li. 93 Which euen growne restie by your power, with-draw Your stifned necks, as freed from ciuill awe. a1633 Visct. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 79 The resty mindes that kick at present greatness. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica iii. i. 377 He must be very Resty that will not allow it for probable at least. 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 16 Some children are naturally resty and stubborn, even at three or four. 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 18 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1262 Whatever Court he [sc. the Duke of Marlborough] went to (and he was often obliged to go himself to some resty and refractory ones), he as constantly prevailed. 1794 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 411 If Paris runs resty, the revolution is done. a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 40 Reasty.., restive, unruly; also pettish, quarrelsome; in a bad humour. 1905 H. L. Wilson Boss Little Arcady vi. 79 Then afteh while Little Miss she git resty an' tehible fractious an' she go off t' Baltimoah t' teach. †2. Of conduct, an action, etc.: characterized by resistance to control. Cf. restive adj. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > intractable or recalcitrant > of actions, conduct, or character restya1586 rusty1625 restive1652 restiff1678 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 33 But now, spite of my heart my tongue will stay,..And no spurre can this restie race refraine. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §35 The ill and resty tricks, they have learn'd when young. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 343 I often have..to Sing deny'd, But not through resty Peevishness, nor Pride. II. Involving rest or lack of activity. †3. Unoccupied, idle. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [adjective] idlec950 tooma1340 unoccupiedc1405 void1530 restyc1540 unbusied1570 idlefula1652 haking1703 unbusy1731 otiose1850 non-employed1853 c1540 tr. Pol. Ver. Eng. Hist. (Camden No. 36) 84 The Romaine soldiers, beinge restie [L. a laboribus vacui], beeganne to quarrell emonge them selves. 4. a. Disinclined to work or exert oneself; sluggish, lazy; inactive. Cf. restive adj. 2. Now regional. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] unlustyc1225 sleepyc1384 phlegmatica1400 listlessc1440 owlist1440 unlisty1440 phlegmyc1450 sweyntc1450 supine1554 resty1565 unactive1591 sleepy-headed1600 log-like1602 inertious1611 stupefied?1611 lethargic1612 sedentary1625 torpent1647 torpid1656 torpulent1657 softly1664 inert1774 vegetative1789 spiritless1798 unenergetic1805 sloomy1820 slow-going1825 inenergetic1826 comatose1828 moony1847 mooning1864 torpid-minded1909 narcoleptic1965 vegged1986 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Desuetudo Resides, &..tardi, restie and slow for lacke of vse. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiv. 10) Thyne enemies surmyze thee to be restie and ydle bycause thou bestirrest thee not. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions iv. 20 Yet must not this quickling be suffered to do nothing at all, for feare he grow reasty. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. i, in Wks. I. 533 Hee would growe resty else in his ease: his vertue would rust without action. View more context for this quotation 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxiv. 192 Som great houshold..where the Maister is too restie, or too rich to say his own Prayers. 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode iv. i. 54 O what a difference will she find betwixt a dull resty Husband, and a quick vigorous Lover. a1704 T. Brown London & Lacedemonian Oracles in Wks. (1709) III. iii. 140 If that City were once destroy'd, the Romans would prove reisty and effeminate. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. i. 189 The Sun, and..the fresh Air of fanning Breezes..exercise the resty Plants, and scour the unactive Globe. 1887 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI. i. 121/2 Resty, indolent; prone to take rest when one should be active; lazy. 1930 Amer. Speech 5 428 The hillman's adjective resty, meaning indolent, is another Shakespearian survival. 1942 M. Campbell Cloud-walking 28 They put him down as being too resty to do no work. †b. Of conditions: characterized by sluggishness, indolence, or inactivity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > [adjective] > characterized by inaction or inactivity > specifically of conditions resty1602 1602 C. Sutton Disce Vivere x. §9. 218 In continuall ease, in a restie slouthfulnesse voyde of all trauaile. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 107 You might shortly behold the idle and restie diseases of a divided multitude..substantially cured. 1628 T. Venner Via Recta (new ed.) iv. 49 To those that leade a resty or studious kinde of life, it is very hurtfull. †5. Of land: fallow, untilled. Cf. restiff adj. 3. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > fallow leac1330 fallow1377 restiff?1440 faugha1522 rested1600 resty1601 summer fallow1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xix It is thought sufficient for a teem of oxen to breake up (at the first tilth) in one day of restie or ley ground, one acre. 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xvii. 99 All old, Resty Land, that hath not bin Tilled of late. Compounds Appositive (in sense 4a). † resty stiff adj. Obsolete rare ΚΠ 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. F3^v Presently they are as resty stiffe, As twere a many ouer ridden iades. View more context for this quotation This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹a1325adj.²adv.c1465
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† restyadj.1

restyadj.2adv.

Compounds

† restyadj.¹

restyadj.²adv.