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1588 T. Churchyard Sparke of Frendship sig. D3 ^v And bodie tost, and tumbled vp and downe, may come to rest.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. ix. 75 (note) When a moueable cometh to rest, the motion doth decrease according to the rules of encrease.

1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 147 If..you let fall a Ball upon the Ground, it will..make several lesser Rebounds, before it come to rest.

1796 Bell's Weekly Messenger 11 Sept. 159/2 When it [sc. a compass needle] came to rest, it constantly affected one and the same angle of declination from its variation.

1850 Harper's Mag. Sept. 500/1 The balloon should be so managed as to come to rest at certain altitudes, when barometric..and other observations, were to be taken.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 129 Playing a bowl so that it shall come to rest between the next player and the jack, or any bowl at which he may wish to aim.

1935 C. J. Smith Intermediate Physics (ed. 2) v. xli. 688 Replacing the magnet..by a brass plummet of about the same mass and allowing this to swing until it comes to rest.

1967 Classic Car Profiles No. 65 10/1 It would..almost come to rest without one's slipping the clutch.

2005 J. Fredston Snowstruck ix. 274 It is the dissipation of this heat when the avalanche comes to rest that causes the particles to fuse almost instantly.