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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RI'SING, ppr.
1. Getting up; ascending; mounting; springing; proceeding from; advancing; swelling; increasing; appearing above the horizon; reviving from death, etc.
2. Increasing in wealth, power or distinction; as a rising state; a rising character.
RI'SING, n.
1. The act of getting up from any recumbent or sitting posture.
2. The act of ascending; as the rising of vapor.
3. The act of closing a session, as of a public body; as the rising of the legislature.
4. The appearance of the sun or a star above the horizon.
5. The act of reviving from the dead; resurrection.
Mark 9.
6. A tumor on the body. Leviticus 13.
7. An assembling in opposition to government; insurrection; sedition or mutiny.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status; "a rising trend"; "a rising market" [ant: falling]
2: sloping upward [syn: acclivitous, rising, uphill]
3: coming to maturity; "the rising generation" [syn: emerging, rising]
4: newly come into prominence; "a rising young politician" n
1: a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon" [syn: rise, rising, ascent, ascension] [ant: fall]
2: organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another [syn: rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 14th century insurrection, uprising II. adverb Date: circa 1772 approaching a stated age ; nearly <a red cow rising four years old — Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Journal>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 going up; getting higher. 2 increasing (rising costs). 3 advancing to maturity or high standing (the rising generation; a rising young lawyer). 4 approaching a specified age (the rising fives). 5 (of ground) sloping upwards. --n. a revolt or insurrection. Phrases and idioms: rising damp moisture absorbed from the ground into a wall.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rising Ris"ing, prep. More than; exceeding; upwards of; as, a horse rising six years of age. [Colloq. & Low, U.S.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rising Ris"ing, n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense). 2. That which rises; a tumor; a boil. --Lev. xiii. 10. Rising main (Waterworks), the pipe through which water from an engine is delivered to an elevated reservoir.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rising Ris"ing, a. 1. Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon. 2. Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character. Among the rising theologians of Germany. --Hare. 3. Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rise Rise, v. i. [imp. Rose; p. p. Risen; p. pr. & vb. n. Rising.] [AS. r[=i]san; akin to OS. r[=i]san, D. rijzen, OHG. r[=i]san to rise, fall, Icel. r[=i]sa, Goth. urreisan, G. reise journey. CF. Arise, Raise, Rear, v.] 1. To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait. (b) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like. (c) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air. (d) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet. (e) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer. (f) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall. (g) To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. He that would thrive, must rise by five. --Old Proverb. (h) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea. (i) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. ``A rising ground.'' --Dryden. (j) To retire; to give up a siege. He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone. --Knolles. (k) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like. 2. To have the aspect or the effect of rising. Specifically: (a) To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like. ``He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good.'' --Matt. v. 45. (b) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore. (c) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower. (d) To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs. A scepter shall rise out of Israel. --Num. xxiv. 17. Honor and shame from no condition rise. --Pope. 3. To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. Specifically: (a) To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion. ``High winde . . . began to rise, high passions -- anger, hate.'' --Milton. (b) To become of higher value; to increase in price. Bullion is risen to six shillings . . . the ounce. --Locke. (c) To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like. (d) To increase in intensity; -- said of heat. (e) To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice. (f) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations. 4. In various figurative senses. Specifically: (a) To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. At our heels all hell should rise With blackest insurrection. --Milton. No more shall nation against nation rise. --Pope. (b) To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. --Shak. (c) To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest. (d) To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures. --Spectator. (e) To come; to offer itself. There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book. --Spenser. 5. To ascend from the grave; to come to life. But now is Christ risen from the dead. --1. Cor. xv. 20. 6. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report. It was near nine . . . before the House rose. --Macaulay. 7. To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone. 8. (Print.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form. Syn: To arise; mount; ascend; climb; scale. Usage: Rise, Appreciate. Some in America use the word appreciate for ``rise in value;'' as, stocks appreciate, money appreciates, etc. This use is not unknown in England, but it is less common there. It is undesirable, because rise sufficiently expresses the idea, and appreciate has its own distinctive meaning, which ought not to be confused with one so entirely different.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

riz'-ing (se'eth, "a tumor," "swelling" (Le 13:2,10, etc.)).

See LEPROSY.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Ascent, rise. 2. Reviving, resurrection. 3. Insurrection, rebellion, sedition. 4. Swelling, tumor, boil.

Moby Thesaurus

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