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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive.

[Obs.]

Burton.

Where the master is too

resty

or too rich to say his own prayers.

Milton.

Adj.

The same as restive or restif, of which it is a contraction.

resty ‎(comparative more resty, superlative most resty)

(now regional) Restive. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.8:
  In vaine the Pagan bannes, and sweares, and rayles, / And backe with both his hands unto him hayles / The resty raynes […].
(now regional) Disposed to rest; inactive, lazy. [from 16th c.]
(Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.218:
  all [beef] is rejected and unfit for such as lead a resty life, anyways inclined to melancholy, or dry of complexion […].