quicken vs rest

quicken

verb
  • To give life to (someone or something never alive or once dead); to animate, to resurrect, to revive. 

  • To stimulate or assist the fermentation of (an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.). 

  • To inspire or stimulate (an action, a feeling, etc.). 

  • To grow bright; to brighten. 

  • To take on a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to be excited or roused. 

  • To put (someone or something) in a state of activity or vigour comparable to life; to excite, to rouse. 

  • Of a pregnant woman: to first feel the movements of the foetus, or reach the stage of pregnancy at which this takes place; of a foetus: to begin to move. 

  • To give life; to make alive. 

  • To inspire or stimulate. 

  • To apply quicksilver (mercury) to (something); to combine (something) with quicksilver; to quicksilver. 

  • To make (something) quicker or faster; to hasten, speed up. 

  • To come back to life, to receive life. 

  • To become quicker or faster. 

  • Of an alcoholic beverage, dough, etc.: to ferment. 

noun
  • In full quicken tree: the European rowan, rowan, or mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia). 

  • Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also (chiefly in the plural), the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses. 

rest

verb
  • To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead. 

  • To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed. 

  • To rely or depend on. 

  • To be or to put into a state of rest. 

  • To lean, lie, or lay. 

  • To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.) 

  • To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way. 

  • To sleep; slumber. 

  • To come to a pause or an end; end. 

  • To be satisfied; to acquiesce. 

  • To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion. 

  • To lie dormant. 

  • To stay, remain, be situated. 

noun
  • A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion. 

  • A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance. 

  • Absence of motion. 

  • Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility. 

  • A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach. 

  • A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities. 

  • Any object designed to be used to support something else. 

  • Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. 

  • The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital. 

  • A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music. 

  • A final position after death. 

  • A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura. 

  • A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode. 

  • A pause of a specified length in a piece of music. 

  • That which remains. 

  • Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others. 

  • Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. 

How often have the words quicken and rest occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )