ript 
ript (ript). Another spelling of ripped, preterit 
and past participle or rip 1 . 
ripuarian (rip-u-a'ri-an), a. [< F. ripuaire = 
Sp. Pg. ripuario, < MlJ. ripuariiis, pertaining to 
a shore, <f L. ripa, shore : see ripe 3 . Ct. ripa- 
rian.'] Pertaining to or dwelling near a shore. 
Ripuarian Franks, one of the great divisions of the 
ancient Franks: so called because they dwelt near the 
banks of the Rhine, in the neighborhood of Cologne. 
risala (ris'a-la), it. [Also ressala, rissala; < 
Hind, risala, Beng. resold, a troop of horse, cav- 
alry, also a treatise, pamphlet, < Ar. risela, a 
mission, despatch, letter.] In the British In- 
dian army, a troop of native irregular cavalry. 
risaldar (ris-al-dar'), . [Also ressaldar; < Hind. 
risaldar, the commander of a troop of horse, < 
risdtd, a troop of horse (see risala), + Mr, one 
who holds.] The native commander of a risala. 
risban (ris'ban), . [Also risband; < F. ris- 
ban, < G. rissbanl; risban, < ma, gap, rent (< 
rcissen, tear, split, draw: see write and rit), + 
bank; bank, bench: see ianfci.] 1. Any flat 
piece of ground upon which a fort is construct- 
ed for the defense of a port. 2. The fort it- 
self. 
risberm (ris-berm'), M. [Also risberme; < F. 
risberme, < G. "rissberme, < ria, gap, + berme, a 
narrow ledge : see berm. Cf. risban and farm.] 
1. A work composed of fascines, constructed 
at the bottom of an earth wall. 2. A sort of 
glacis of fascine-work used in jetties to with- 
stand the violence of the sea. 
rise 1 (riz), v. ; pret. rose, pp. mew, ppr. rising. 
[< ME. risen, rysen (pret. ros, roos, earlier ra#, 
pi. risen, rise, resin, reson, pp. risen, min),< AS. 
man (pret. ran, pi. rison, pp. risen), rise, = OS. 
man = OFries. ma, rise, = D. rijzen, rise or 
fall, = MLG. LG. risen = OHG. man, MHG. 
risen, rise or fall, = Icel. ma = Goth, "reisan 
(pret : "rats, pp. risans), in comp. nrreisan (= 
AS. arisan, E. arise) ; orig. expressive of verti- 
cal motion either up or down, but in E. confined 
to upward motion. The OHG. reison, MHG. G. 
reisen (= Sw. resa = Dan. reitte), travel, is from 
the noun, OHG. reisa, MHG. reise, a setting out, 
expedition, journey, G. reise (= Sw. resa = Dan. 
reise), a journey, < OHG. maw, MHG. risen, 
rise.] I. in trans. 1. To move or pass from a 
lower position to a higher; move upward; 
ascend; mount up: as, a bird rises in the air; 
a fog rises from the river; the mercury rises in 
the thermometer (or, as commonly expressed, 
the thermometer rises). 
I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, ... 
Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury. 
Shak., I Hen. IV., iv. 1. 106. 
In happier fields a rising town I see, 
Greater than what e'er was, or is, or e'er shall be. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., 1. 053. 
Dark and voluminous the vapors rise, 
And hang their horrors In the neighb'ring skies. 
Coteper, Heroism. 
The falconer is frightening the fowls to make them rise, 
and the hawk is in the act of seizing upon one of them. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 89. 
2. Specifically, to change from a lying, sitting, 
or kneeling posture to a standing one ; stand 
up ; assume an upright position : as, to rise from 
a chair; to rise after a fall. 
With that word they rysen sodeynly. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 330. 
Iden, kneel down. [He kneels.] Rise up a knight. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., v. 1. 78. 
Risse [pret.] not the consular men, and left their places, 
So soon as thou sat'st down ? B. Jonson, Catiline, iv. 2. 
Go to your banquet then, but use delight 
So as to rise still with an appetite. 
Herrick, Connubli Flores. 
And all the men and women in the hall 
Rose when they saw the dead man rise, and fled. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
Hence (a) To bring a sitting or a session to an end: as, 
the house rose at midnight. 
It is then moved by some member . . . that the com- 
mittee rise, and that the chairman or some other member 
make their report to the assembly. 
Gushing, Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 285. 
When Parliament rises for the vacation the work of the 
circuit begins. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XXXIX. 203. 
(6) To get up from bed. 
Go to bed when she list, rise when she list, all is as she 
W UI. Shak., M. W. of W., il. 2. 124. 
About two o'clock in the morning, letters came from 
London by our coxon. ... I rose and carried them in to 
my Lord, who read them a-bed. 
Pepys, Diary, March 25, 1660. 
With early dawn Lord Marmion rose. 
Scott, Marmion, I. 31. 
3. To grow or stretch upward; attain an alti- 
tude or stature ; stand in height : as, the tower 
rises to the height of 60 feet. 
5192 
In sailing round Caprea we were entertained with many 
rude prospects of rocks and precipices, that rise in several 
places half a mile high in perpendicular. 
Addition, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 446. 
Where Windsor-domes and pompous turrets rise. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 352. 
She that rose the tallest of them all, 
And fairest. Tennyson, Passing of Arthur. 
4. To swell upward. Specifically (o) To reach a 
higher level by increase of bulk or volume : as, the river 
risen in its bed. 
He told a boding dream, 
Of rising waters, and a troubled stream. 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, ill. 481. 
The olde sea wall (he cried) Is downe, 
The rising tide comes on apace. 
Jean Ingelow, High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire. 
(i) To swell or puff up, as dough In the process of fer- 
mentation. 
Generally In from four to five hours the [bread] sponge 
rises; fermentation has been going on, and carbonic acid 
steadily accumulating within the tenacious mass, till it has 
assumed a puffed out appearance. Encyc. Brit., III. 253. 
6. To slope or extend upward; have an upward 
direction : as, a line, a path, or a surface rises 
gradually or abruptly. 
There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood 
Seems sunk. Cmrper, Task, 1. 306. 
6. To appear above the horizon; move from 
below the horizon to above it, in consequence 
of the earth's diurnal rotation ; hence, to move 
from an invisible to a visible position. 
Whiles these renkes thus rest than rises the sun, 
Bredis with his beanies all the brode vales. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.X 1. 1172. 
He niaketh his sun to rue on the evil and on the good. 
Mat. v. 45. 
Till the star, that rose at evening bright, 
Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. 
Milton, Lycidas, 1. 30. 
Rises! thou thus, dim dawn, again? 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, l\\ii. 
7. To come into existence; emerge into sight ; 
arise, (o) To become apparent; come into view ; stand 
out ; emerge ; come forth ; appear : as, an eruption rises on 
the skin ; the color rose on her cheeks. 
There chaunst to them a dangerous accident. 
A Tigre forth out of the wood did rise. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. x. 34. 
Go to ; does not my coulour rise? 
It shall rise; for I can force my blood 
To come and go. Marstan, The Fawne, IL 1. 
I [stake] this bowl, where wanton ivy twines, . . . 
Four figures rising from the work appear. 
Pope, Spring, L 87. 
(6) To become audible. 
Heroes' and heroines' shouts confusedly rise. 
Pope, R. of the L., v. 41. 
There rose a noise of striking clocks. 
Tennyson, Day-Dream, The Revival. 
(c) To have a beginning; originate; spring; come into 
existence ; be produced. 
A nobler gratitude 
Rose in her soul : for from that hour she lov'd me. 
Otway, Venice Preserved, L 1. 
'Tis very rare that Tornadoes arise from thence [the sea] ; 
for they generally rise first over the Land, and that in a very 
strange manner. Dampur, Voyages, II. Hi. 87. 
Honour and shame from no condition rise ; 
Act well your part ; there all the honour lies. 
Pope, Essay on Man, iv. 193. 
The river Blackwater rises in the county Kerry. 
TroUope, Castle Richmond, i. 
8. To increase in force, intensity, spirit, de- 
gree, value, or the like, (o) To increase in force or 
intensity ; become stronger : as, his anger rises. 
He blewe hys home in that tyde, 
Hertys reson on eche a syde. 
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 64. (HaUiireU.) 
Sunday, the wynde began to ryse in the north. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travel!, p. 59. 
His spirits rising as his toils increase. 
Cmcper, Table-Talk, 1. 279. 
The power of the Crown was constantly sinking, and 
that of the Commons constantly rising. 
Macaulay, Sir William Temple. 
(6) To increase in degree or volume, as heat or sound. 
The day was raw and chilly, and the temperature rose 
very little. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 43. 
The music . . . rose again, . . . 
Storm'd in orbs of song, a growing gale. 
Tennyson, Vision of Sin. 
SO To increase in value ; become higher in price ; become 
earer. 
Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of oats rose; it 
was the death of him. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 14. 
Bullion is risen to six shillings and five pence the ounce 
Locke. 
(d) To increase in amount : as, his expenses rose greatly. 
0. To stand up in opposition ; become opposed 
or hostile; take up arms; rebel; revolt: as, to 
rise against the government. 
The commons haply rise, to save his life. 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 240. 
rise 
To hinder this prowd enterprise, 
The stout and michty Erie of Marr 
With all his men in arms did ryse. 
UaUle of Harlaw (Child's Ballads, VII. 184). 
At our heels all hell should rise 
With blackest insurrection. 
Milton, P. L.,ii. 136. 
10. To take up a higher position ; increase in 
wealth, dignity, or power; prosper; thrive; 
be promoted or exalted: as, he is a rising man. 
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. 
Shak., M. for M., ii. 1. 38. 
His fortune is not made, 
You hurt a man that 's ritiny In the trade. 
Pope, Epil. to Satires, II. 3:,. 
11. To become more forcible or impressive; 
increase in power, dignity, or interest: said of 
thought, discourse, or manner. 
Dangle. The interest rather falls off in the fifth act. 
Sir Fretfitl. Rises, I believe you mean, sir. 
Sheridan, The Critic, i. 1. 
12. To come by chance ; turnup; occur. 
There chaunced to the Princes hand to rize 
An auncient booke. Spenser, F. Q., II. Ix. 59. 
13. To arise from the grave or from the dead; 
be restored to life: often with aijiiin. 
Thou ne woldest leue thomas 
That oure lord fram deth ras. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 98. 
Deed <t lijf bigunneto striuen 
Whether myjt be maister there ; 
Llif was slayn, & roos a-gen. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 29. 
And vpon Ester day erely our blessyd Sauyonre come 
to hyin and brought hym mete, sayenge, " lames, nowe 
ete, for I am rysyn." SirR. Giiytforde, Pylgrymage, p. 33. 
Awake, ye faithful ! throw your grave-clothes by, 
He whom ye seek is risen, bids ye rise. 
Jones Very, Poems, p. 77. 
14. Of sound, to ascend in pitch; pass from a 
lower to a higher tone. 
Miss Abercrombie had a soft voice with melancholy 
cadences; her tones had no rising inflections; all her 
sentences died away. Harpers Mag., LXXVIII. 248. 
15. In mining, to excavate upward: the oppo- 
site of sink. Thus, a level may be connected with one 
above it by either sinking from the upper level to the 
lower one, or by rising from the lower to the upper. 
16. To come to the surface or to the baited 
hook, as a whale or a game-fish. 
Where they have so much choice, you may easily Imagine 
they will not be so eager and forward to rise at a bait. 
Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 263. 
17. Milit., to be promoted; go up in rank. 
The curtain rises. See curtain. To have the gorge 
rise. See gorge. To rise from the ranks, to win a com- 
mission, after serving in the ranks as a private soldier or 
a non-commissioned officer. To rise to the fly. See_/f$/2. 
To rise to tne occasion, or to the emergency, to 
feel, speak, or act as an emergency demands ; snow one's 
self equal to a difficult task or to mastering a dilemma. 
" I should have walked over there every day, on the 
chance of seeing your pretty face !" answered the Dandy, 
rising, as he flattered himself, to the occasion. 
Whyte MelvOle, White Rose, I. vi. 
= Syn. Arise, Rise. See arise. 
fl. trail*. 1. To ascend; mount; climb. 
The carriage that took them to the station was rising a 
little hill the ton of which would shut off the sight of the 
Priory. B. G. White, Fate of Mansfield Humphreys, viii. 
2. In angling, to cause or induce to rise, as a 
fish. 
Some men, having once risen a fish, are tempted to flog 
the water in which he is with fly after fly. 
Quarterly fiec. , CXXVI. 349. 
3. Nant., to cause, by approaching, to rise into 
view above the horizon. Compare raise*-, 11. 
She was heading S. E., and we were heading S. S.W., and 
consequently before I quitted the deck we had risen her 
hull. W. C. Russell, Sailor's Sweetheart, v. 
rise 1 (riz), ii. [First in mod. E. ; < rise 1 , .] 1. 
The act of rising; ascent: as, the rise of vapor 
in the air; the rise of water in a river; the rise 
of mercury in a barometer. 
The steed along the drawbridge flies, 
Just as it trembled on the rise. 
Scott, Marmion, vi. 15. 
2. Elevation; degree of ascent : as, the me of 
a hill or a road. 
The approach to the house was by a gentle rise and 
through an avenue of noble trees. 
Mark Lemon, Wait for the End, I. 29. 
3. Any place elevated above the common level ; 
a rising ground : as, a rise of land. 
I turning saw, throned on a flowery rise, 
One sitting on a crimson scarf unroll'd. 
Tennyson, Fair Women. 
Laramie Jack led slightly, riding straight towards a tall 
branchless tree on the crest of the rise up which they 
were racing. The Century, XXXIX. 527. 
4. Spring; source; origin; beginning: as, the 
rixc of a stream in a mountain. 
