rise 
He observes very well that musical instruments took 
their first rue from the notes of birds and other melodi- 
ous animals. Addimn, The Cat-Call. 
The Stories that Apparitions have been seen oftner 
than once in the same Place have no Doubt been the Rite 
and Spring of the walking Places of Spirits. 
Bourne's Pop. Antiq. (1777), p. 109. 
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains 
of rectitude. Emerson, Conduct of Life. 
6. Appearance above the horizon: as, the rise 
of the sun or a star. 
From the rite to set 
Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night 
Sleeps in Elysium. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 1. 289. 
Long Isaac proposed waiting until midnight for moon- 
rise, as it was already dark, and there was no track be- 
yond Lippajiirvi. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 118. 
6. Increase ; advance : said of price : as, a rise 
in (the price of) stocks or wheat. 
Eighteen bob a-week, and arise if he behaved himself. 
Dickens, Pickwick, liii. 
7. Elevation in rank, reputation, wealth, or 
importance ; mental or moral elevation. 
Wrinkled benchers often talk'd of him 
Approvingly, and prophesied his rise. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
8. Increase of sound ; swell. 
His mind 
. . . borne perhaps upon the rise 
And long roll of the Hexameter. 
Tennyson, Lucretius. 
9. Height to which one can rise mentally or 
spiritually; elevation possible to thought or 
feeling. 
These were sublimities above the rise of the apostolic 
spirit. South. 
1 0. In sporting, the distance from the score-line 
to the traps in glass-ball- or pigeon-shooting 
matches. 11. In arch., the perpendicular 
height of an arch in the clear, from the level 
of impost to the crown. See arch 1 , 2. 12. 
In music : (a) Increase of sound or force in a 
tone. (6) Ascent in pitch; passage from a 
lower to a higher tone. 13. In coal-mining, 
the inclination of strata considered from below 
upward. Thus, a seam of coal is said to be 
worked "to the rise" when it is followed up- 
ward on its inclination. 14. In mining, an ex- 
cavation begun from below and carried up- 
ward, as in connecting one level with another, 
or in proving the ground above a level. Also 
called rising. 15. In carp., the height of a 
step in a flight of stairs. 16. The action of a 
game-fish in coming to the surface to take the 
hook. 
If you can attain to angle with one hair, you shall have 
more rises, and catch more fish. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 102. 
Rise Of strata, in geol. See dip, n., 4 (a). To get or 
take a rise out of (a person), to take the conceit out of a 
person, or to render him ridiculous. [Colloq. or slang.] 
Possibly taking a rise out of his worship the Corregidor, 
as a repeating echo of Don Quixote. 
De Quincey, Spanish Nun. 
To give rise. See givei . 
rise 2 (ris), n. [Also rice, Sc. reise; < ME. ris, 
rys, < AS. hris, a twig, branch, = D. rijs = OHG. 
hris, ris, MHG. ris, G. reis = Icel. hris = Sw. 
Dan. ris, a twig, branch, rod.] 1. A branch of 
a tree ; a twig. 
And therupon he hadde a gay sarplys. 
As whit as is the blosme upon the rys. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 138. 
Anone he lokyd hym besyde, 
And say syxty lades on palferays ryde, 
Gentyll and gay as bryd on ryse. 
MS. Ashmole 61, 15th Cent. (Halliwell.) 
Among Lydgate's cries are enumerated "Strawberries 
ripe and cherries in the rise " ; the rise being a twig to 
which the cherries were tied, as at present. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, 1. 10. 
2. A small bush. 
"It was that deevil's buckie, Callum Beg," said Alick ; 
"I saw him whisk away through amaug thereises." 
Scott, Waverley, Iviii. 
rise-bush (ris'bush), . [< rise 1 * + bush 1 .] A 
fagot; brushwood. 
The streets were barricaded up with chaines, harrowes, 
and waggons of bavins or rise-ottshes. 
Relation of Action before Cyreneester (1642), p. 4. (Davies.) 
rise-dike (rls'dik), . [< rise" + dike.] A hedge 
made of boughs and brushwood. Halliwell. 
risel, n. A support for a climbing or running 
vine. 
The blankest, barest wall in the world is good enough 
for ivy to cling to. ... But the healthiest hop or scarlet 
runner won't grow without what we call a risel. 
D. Christie Murray, The Weaker Vessel, xxxvi. 
risen (riz'n). 1. Past participle of rise 1 . 2f. 
An obsolete preterit plural of rise 1 . 
riser (ri'zer), n. One who or that which rises. 
Specifically (a) One who leaves his bed : generally with 
a qualifying word. 
5193 
Th' early riser with the rosy hands, 
Active Aurora. Chapman, Odyssey, xii. 4. 
Such picturesque objects ... as were familiar to an 
early riser. 
Sir E. Brydges, Note on Milton's L'Allegro, 1. 67. 
(&) One who revolts ; a rebel or rioter. 
The noyse that was telde of zow, that ze schuld a be on 
of the capetayns of the ryserse in Norfolk. 
Potion Letters, I. 86. 
(c) In angling, a flsh considered with reference to its man- 
ner of rising. 
All the flsh, to whichever class of risers they might be- 
long. Three in Norway, p. 123. 
(d) In founding : (1) An opening in a molding-flask into 
which the molten metal rises as the flask is fllled ; a head. 
It is well known that, to obtain a sound casting in steel, 
with most methods in use, a very high riser is necessary', 
which also means a high gate, and consequent waste of 
labor and material. Sci. Amer., N. 8., LIX. 88. 
(2) Same as feed-head, 2. (e) The vertical face of a stair- 
step. Also raiser and lift. 
The risers of these stairs ... are all richly ornament- 
ed, being divided generally into two panels by figures of 
dwarfs, and framed by foliaged borders. 
J. Fergusson, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 198. 
(/) pi. In printing, blocks of wood or metal upon which 
electrotype plates are mounted to raise them to the height 
of type. [Eng.] 
rise-wood (ris'wud), . [< rise 2 + wood 1 ,] 
Small wood cut for hedging. Halliicell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
rish 1 (rish), n. and r. An obsolete or dialectal 
form of rush 1 . 
rish 2 t, . [Origin obscure.] A sickle. Xonii- 
nale MS. (Halliicell.) 
rishi (rish'i), n. [Skt. rishi; derivation un- 
known.] In Skt. myth., an inspired sage or 
poet; the author of a Vedic hymn The seven 
rishis, the stars of the Great Bear. 
risibility (riz-i-bil'i-ti), .; pi. risibilities (-tiz). 
[= F. risibilite = Sp. risibilidad = Pg. risibili- 
dade = It. risibilita, < LL. as if *risibilita(t-)s, < 
risibilis, risible : see risible.'] 1. The property 
of being risible ; disposition to laugh. 
To be religions is, therefore, more adequate to his char- 
acter than either polity, society, risibility, without which 
sonable creature, but a mere brute, th 
Evelyn, True Religion, I. 260. 
he were no reasor 
very worst of the kind. 
Her too obvious disposition to risibility. 
Scott, Guy Mannering, xx. 
2. pi. The faculty of laughing; a sense of the 
ludicrous. Also risibles. 
risible (riz'i-bl), a. and . [< OF. (and F.) risi- 
ble = Sp. risible = Pg. risivel = It. risibilc, laugh- 
able, < LL. risibilis, that can laugh, < L. ridere, 
pp. risiis, laugh: see rident, ridicule.] I. a. 1. 
Having the faculty or power of laughing. 
We are in a merry world ; laughing is our business, as 
if, because it has been made the definition of man that he 
is risible, his manhood consisteth of nothing else. 
Government of the Tongue. 
2. Laughable; capable of exciting laughter; 
ridiculous. 
For a terse point, a happy surprise, or a risible quibble, 
there is no man in this town can match little Laconic. 
Foote, An Occasional Prelude. 
A few wild blunders, and risible absurdities, from which 
no work of such multiplicity was ever free. 
Johnson, Pref. to Dictionary. 
The denunciations of Leicester . . . would seem almost 
risible, were it not that the capricious wrath of the all- 
powerful favorite was often sufficient to blast the charac- 
ter ... of honest men. 
Motley, Hist. Netherlands, II. 279, note. 
3. Of or pertaining to laughter; exerted to 
produce laughter: as, the risible faculty. 
The obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of 
the Dutch negroes at Communipaw, who, like most other 
negroes, are famous for their risible powers. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 98. 
II. n. pi. Same as risibilities. See risibility, 2. 
[Jocular.] 
Something in his tone stirred the risibles of the conven- 
tion, and loud laughter saluted the Illinoisan. 
The Century, XXXVIII. 28fl. 
risibleness(riz'i-bl-nes), w. Same as risibility. 
Bailey, 1727. 
risibly (riz'i-bli), tidr. In a risible manner; 
laughably, 
risilabialis (ri-si-la-bi-a'lis), .; pi. rixiltibialex 
(-lez). [NL., < L. ridere, pp. risus, laugh, + 
lal>inm,l\p: see labial.] Same as risorius. 
rising (ri'zing), n. [< ME. risingc, rysyngc; 
verbal n. of rise 1 , r.] 1. The act of one who 
or that which rises. 
Men that are in hopes and in the way of rising keep in 
the Channel. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 9(i. 
A Saxon nobleman and his falconer, with their hawks, 
upon the bank of a river, waiting for the riring of the 
game. Strtitt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 88. 
Specifically (a) The appearance of the sun or a star above 
the horizon. In astronomy the sun or a planet is said to 
rise when the upper limb appears in the horizon ; and in 
calculating the time allowance must be made for refrac- 
rising-anvil 
tiuii, parallax, and the dip of the horizon. Primitive as- 
tronomers defined the seasons by means of the risings 
and settings of certain stars relatively to the sun. These, 
called by Kepler "poetical risings and settings," are the 
acronychal, cosmical, and heliacal (sec these words). 
We alone of all animals have known the risings, settings, 
and courses of the stars. Derham, Astrotheology, viiL 3. 
(b) The act of arising from the dead, or of coming to life 
again ; resurrection. 
Questioning one with another what the rising from the 
dead should mean. Mark ix. 10. 
Then of the moral instinct would she prate, 
And of the rising from the dead. 
Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
(c) A hostile demonstration of people opposed to the gov- 
ernment; a revolt; an insurrection; sedition: as, to call 
out troops to quell a rising. 
There was a rising now in Kent, my Lord of Norwich 
being at the head of them. Evelyn, Diary, May 30, 1648. 
In 1636, even a great religious movement like the Pil- 
grimage of Grace sinks into a local and provincial rising, 
an abortive tumult. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 253. 
The futile risings, the cruel reprisals, the heroic deaths, 
kept alive among the people the belief in the cause of Italy. 
E. Dicey, Victor Emmanuel, p. 63. 
2. That which rises ; a prominence, elevation, 
or swelling; specifically, a tumor on the body, 
as a boil or a wen. [Now colloq. or dialectal.] 
When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, 
a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like 
the plague of leprosy, then he shall he brought unto Aaron 
the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests. Lev. xiii. 2. 
On each foot there are five flat horny risings, which seem 
to be the extremities of the toes. 
Goldsmith, Hist, of Earth (ed. 1790), IV. 254. (Jodrell.) 
3. In mininy, same as rise 1 , 14. 4. A giving 
way in an upward direction from pressure ex- 
erted from beneath. 
The only danger to be feared [in domes] is what is tech- 
nically called a rising of the haunches ; and to avoid this 
it might be necessary, where large domes were attempted, 
to adopt a form more nearly conical than that used at 
Mycente. J. Fergusson, Hist. Arch., I. 238. 
5. That which is used to make dough rise, as 
yeast or leaven. See salt-rising. [Prov. Eng. 
and U. S.] 
It behoveth my wits to worke like barme, alias yeast, 
alias sizing, alias rising. Lyly, Mother Bombie, ii. 1. 
So strong is it [alkali] that the earth when wet rises like 
bread under yeast. It taints the water everywhere, and 
sometimes so strongly that bread mixed with it needs no 
other rising. S. Bowles, Our New West, xiv. 
6. In bread-making, the quantity of dough set 
to rise at one time. 7. A defect sometimes 
occurring in casting crucible steel, which is 
said to "boil" in the mold after teeming, pro- 
ducing a honeycomb structure of the metal. 
The rising of steel, and consequently the formation of 
blow-holes, is attributed to hydrogen and nitrogen, and to 
a small extent to carbonic oxide. 
The Ironmonger, quoted in Science, IV. 331. 
8. A water-swelling : said of ova by fish-cultur- 
ists. 0. Naut., the thick planking laid fore 
and aft, on which the timbers of the deck bear ; 
also, the narrow strake inside a boat just under 
the thwarts. The rising of the sun, in Scrip., the 
place where the sun appears to rise ; the extreme eastern 
limit of the world ; the orient. 
From the rising of the sun even to the going down of the 
same, my name shall he great among the Gentiles. 
Mai. i. 11. 
rising (ri'zing), p. a. [Ppr. of rise 1 , v.] 1. In- 
creasing in possessions, importance, power, or 
distinction : as, a rising town ; a rising man. 
Feign what I will, and paint it e'er so strong, 
Some fixing genius sins up to my song. 
Pope, Epilogue to Satires, ii. 9. 
2. Growing; advancing to adult years, and to 
the state of active life : as, the rising genera- 
tion. 3. Growing so as to be near some spe- 
cified or indicated amount: used loosely in 
an awkward quasi-adverbial construction: (a) 
reaching an amount greater than that speci- 
fied: sometimes with of: as, rising three years 
old; rising of & thousand men were killed; the 
colt is rising of two this grass [U. S.]; (b) reach- 
ing an amount which is at least that specified 
and may be greater: as, a horse rising fourteen 
hands; (c) approaching but not yet reaching 
the specified amount: as, a colt risinytwo years 
old [Eug.]. 
A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment un- 
less there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kit- 
ten rising three weeks. 
Southey, quoted in Allibone's Diet, of Quots., p. 102. 
Rising butt. See butts. Rising hinge. See hinge.- 
Rlsing line, an incurvated line drawn on the plane of 
elevations or sheer drafts of :\ ship, to determine the 
height of the ends of all the floor-timbers. Rising tim- 
bers, or rising floors, the floor-timbers in the forward 
and after parts of a ship. 
rising-anvil (iJ'ring-aa'vil), n. In slieet-metal 
working, a double beak-iron. 
