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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Wanrest, n. [Wan- prefix and Rest n.¹ Cf. Unrest n.] a. (A state of) unease, restlessness or inquietude. b. transf.Applied to a person as a cause of unrest or anxiety.a. c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus ii 456.
For my wanrest I wald thow saw remeid c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus ii 865.
I am put to wanrest and wnricht 1560 Rolland Seven S. 6329.
Sic wickit vice [sc. pride], He will not thoill vnpuneist be, Be battell, pest, weir or wanrest Sum perrellous plague or pouertie a1568 Scott xx 36.
My corps … Is … brocht to grit wanrest a1568 Scott xx 55.
Thy wo and grit wanrest And cair scho countis nocht 1584 Melvill 205.
Ans sall com the day when yie sall be forcit to compeir before that grait judge … Sall nocht this sillie ease be turned in sorrowfull wanrest? 1587-99 Hume 107/55, 56.
The natural diseases proceids from the euill constitution … of mans body, and his warldly sorrow and wanrest from the solicitude & case quhilk he hes of warldly things: But the wanrest and anxietie of the conscience proceids from the sicht & consideration of mans sinne a1603 Anc. Prophecies 22.
The ratches workes them great wanrest Where they are rayed on a lie 1672 M. Bruce Rattling Dry Bones 18.
Rest thou gets none, till thou rest upon Christ. But I trow little wanrest hath some of you upon that account 1672 M. Bruce Rattling Dry Bones 18.
It keeps evermore a wanrest in a Christians bosom till it rest upon a slain Christpersonified 1562 Reeves Sc. Prose bef. 1600 79.
Ane castell representand the heichtnes of the warld complesis David Dispit and Willie Wanrestb. 1661 Baillie III 448.
For our private matters in the colledge, this twelvemoneth we have been at peace, our wanrest [sc. alluding to Patrick Gillespie] being quieted. He sent his wife to London [etc.]

c. Wanrest quheill, the crown wheel, the escape wheel of a verge escapement in a clock. 1621-40 Melville Commonpl. Bk. 29.
Of gryitt cloakes, … The going wark Item the peas quheill hath of tooth … 68 The wanrest quheill 1621-40 Melville Commonpl. Bk. 31.
Of small clocks or chalmer clocks Item the wanrest quheill hes of teith … 21