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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Risen \Ris"en\ 1. p. p. & a. from {Rise}. ``Her risen Son and Lord.'' --Keble. 2. Obs. imp. pl of {Rise}. --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: risen adj : (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon; "the risen sun"
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