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RISANO, a town of Austrian Dalmatia, at the bottom of 
the gulf of Cattaro; 8 miles north of Cattaro. Population 
1800. The inhabitants of this petty place and its district 
profess to have preserved the ancient Roman habits, and are 
certainly remarkable for their intrepidity in the naval, as in 
the military service. 
RISARD (Francis). See Rivara. 
R1SBOROUGH, PRINCE’S, a parish of England, in 
Buckinghamshire, so named from Edward the Black Prince, 
who, according to the tradition of the inhabitants, had large 
possessions, and a palace here. Population 1684. 
RISBOROUGH, MONK’S, a market town of England, in 
the county of Buckingham, so named from its being assigned 
to the monks of Canterbury, by Eschevine, bishop of Dor¬ 
chester, about the year 995, and afterwards granted as a 
portion to the monks of that place. Population 899; 7 miles 
south of Aylesbury. 
R1SBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire, near Burton- 
upon-Trent. 
RISBY, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 4 miles north¬ 
west of Bury St. Edmund’s. 
RISC A, a parish of England, in Monmouthshire; 5 miles 
north-west of Newport. 
RISCLE, a town of France, department of the Gers, on 
the Adour. Population 1200 ; 35 miles west of Auch. 
RISCUS, among the Romans, sometimes signifies a chest 
or trunk covered with skins; sometimes it is used for a 
hamper, made of twigs or rushes to hold lint; and sometimes 
for a hollow place in the wall of a house, used likewise for 
holding lint, or the like. 
To RISE, v. n. pret .rose; part .risen. Cowley has ris, 
for rose ; so has Jonson. [reisan, Goth, pqan, Sax.] To 
change a jacent or recumbent, to an erect posture.—I have 
seen her rise from her bed, and throw her night-gown upon 
her. Shakspeare. —To get up from rest.—Never a wife 
leads a better life than she does; do what she will; go to bed 
when she list; rise when she list. Shakspeare. —To get up 
from a fall. 
True in our fall. 
False in our promis’d rising. Milton • 
To spring; to grow up. 
They imagine 
For one forbidden tree a multitude. 
New ris'n to work them farther woe. Milton. 
To gain elevation of rank or fortune.—Some rise by sin, 
and some by virtue fall. Shakspeare.—' Those that have 
been raised by some great minister, trample upon the steps 
by which they rise, to rival him. South .—To swell.—If 
the bright spot stay in his place, it is a rising of the burning. 
Lev. xiii. 21.—To ascend ; to move upwards.—The sap in 
old trees is not so frank as to rise all to the boughs, but tireth 
by the way, and putteth out moss. Bacon. —To break out 
from below the horizon, as the sun.—He maketh his sun to 
rise on the evil and on the good. St. Matt. v. 45. 
Whether the sun 
Rise on the earth, or earth rise on the sun. Milton. 
To take beginning; to come into existence, or notice. 
Only he spoke, and every thing that is, 
Out to the fruitful womb of nothing ris. Cowley. 
To begin to act.—High winds began to rise. Milton. 
With Vulcan’s rage the rising winds conspire, 
And near our palace rolls the flood of fire. Dry den. 
To appear in view.—The poet must lay out all his strength, 
that his words may be glowing, and that every thing he des¬ 
cribes may immediately present itself, and rise up to the 
reader’s view. Addison. —To change a station; to quit a 
siege.—He, rising with small honour from Gunza, and fear¬ 
ing the power of the Christians, was gone. Kno/les. —To be 
excited; to be produced. 
Indeed you thank’d me; but a nobler gratitude 
Rose in her soul; for from that hour she lov’d me. Otway: 
R I S 
To break into military commotions; to make insurrections. 
At our heels all hell should rise, 
With blackest insurrection. Milton. 
Numidia’s spacious kingdom lies 
Ready to rise at its young prince’s call. Addison. 
To be roused; to be excited to action.—Who will rise up 
for me against evil-doers ? or who will stand up for me 
against the workers of iniquity ? Ps. xciv.—To make hos¬ 
tile attack—If any man hate his neighbour, lie in wait, and 
rise up against him, and smite him mortally, and fleeth into 
one of these cities, the elders of his city shall fetch him thence. 
Deuteronomy. —To grow more or greater in any respect. 
A hideous gabble rises loud 
Among the builders. Milton . 
The great duke rises on them in his demands, and will 
not be satisfied with less than a hundred thousand crowns, 
and a solemn embassy to beg pardon. Addison. —To in¬ 
crease in price.—Bullion is risen to six shillings and five- 
pence the ounce ; i. e. that an ounce of uncoined silver will 
exchange for an ounce and a quarter of coined silver. Locke. 
I'o be improved.—From such an untainted couple, we can 
hope to have our family rise to its ancient splendour of face, 
air, countenance, and shape. Tatler. —To elevate the style. 
Your author always will the best advise, 
Fall when he falls, and when he rises, rise. Roscommon. 
To be revived from death.—After I am risen again, I will 
go before you. St. Matt. xxvi. 32. 
The stars'of morn shall see him rise 
Out of his grave. Milton. 
To come by chance. 
As they gan his library to view. 
And antique registers for to avise. 
There chanced to the prince’s hand to rise 
An ancient book. Spenser. 
To be elevated in situation. 
He bar’d an ancient oak of all her boughs; 
Then on a rising ground the trunk he plac’d, 
Which with the spoils ofhis dead foe he grac’d. Dryden. 
RISE, s. The act of rising, locally or figuratively. 
Thy rise of fortune did I only wed, 
From its decline determin’d to recede ? Prior. 
The act of mounting from the ground.—In leaping with 
weights, the arms are first cast backwards and then forwards, 
with so much the greater force; for the hands go backwards 
before they take their rise. Bacon. —Eruption; ascent. 
The hill submits itself 
In small descents, which do its height beguile; 
And sometimes mounts, but so as billows play, 
Whose rise not hinders, but makes short our way. Dryden. 
Place that favours the act of mounting aloft. 
Raised so high, from that convenient rise 
She took her flight, and quickly reach’d the skies. Creech. 
Elevated place. 
Such a rise, as doth at once invite 
A pleasure, and a reverence from the sight. Denham. 
Appearance as of the sun in the East. 
Phoebus! stay; 
The world to which you fly so fast. 
From us to them can pay your haste 
With no such object, and salute your rise 
With no such wonder as De Mornay’s eyes. Waller. 
Increase in any respect. Increased price.—Upon a breach 
with Spain, must be considered the present state of the king’s 
treasure, the rise or fall that may happen in his constant re¬ 
venue by a Spanish war. Temple. —The bishops have had 
share in the gradual rise of lands. Swift. —Beginning; ori¬ 
ginal. 
