| Rise |
v. i. |
To go up; to ascend; to climb; as, to rise a hill. |
| Rise |
v. i. |
To cause to rise; as, to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water; to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it; to raise. |
| Rise |
v. |
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. |
| Rise |
v. |
To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like. |
| Rise |
v. |
To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air. |
| Rise |
v. |
To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet. |
| Rise |
v. |
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. |
| Rise |
v. |
To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall. |
| Rise |
v. |
To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. |
| Rise |
v. |
To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea. |
| Rise |
v. |
To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. |
| Rise |
v. |
To retire; to give up a siege. |
| Rise |
v. |
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like. |
| Rise |
v. |
To have the aspect or the effect of rising. |
| Rise |
v. |
To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like. |
| Rise |
v. |
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. |
| Rise |
v. |
To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower. |
| Rise |
v. |
To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs. |
| Rise |
v. |
To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. |
| Rise |
v. |
To increase in power or fury;
said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion. |
| Rise |
v. |
To become of higher value; to increase in price. |
| Rise |
v. |
To become larger; to swell;
said of a boil, tumor, and the like. |
| Rise |
v. |
To increase in intensity;
said of heat. |
| Rise |
v. |
To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice. |
| Rise |
v. |
To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations. |
| Rise |
v. |
In various figurative senses. |
| Rise |
v. |
To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. |
| Rise |
v. |
To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. |
| Rise |
v. |
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. |
| Rise |
v. |
To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. |
| Rise |
v. |
To come; to offer itself. |
| Rise |
v. |
To ascend from the grave; to come to life. |
| Rise |
v. |
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report. |
| Rise |
v. |
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone. |
| Rise |
v. |
To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type;
said of a form. |
| Rise |
n. |
The act of rising, or the state of being risen. |
| Rise |
n. |
The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step. |
| Rise |
n. |
Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land. |
| Rise |
n. |
Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream. |
| Rise |
n. |
Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet. |
| Rise |
n. |
Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like. |
| Rise |
n. |
Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice. |
| Rise |
n. |
Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone. |
| Rise |
n. |
The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water. |
| Risen |
p. p. |
of Rise |
| Risen |
|
p. p. & a. from Rise. |
| Risen |
p. p. & a. |
Obs. imp. pl. of Rise. |
| Riser |
n. |
One who rises; as, an early riser. |
| Riser |
n. |
The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread. |
| Riser |
n. |
Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like. |
| Riser |
n. |
A shaft excavated from below upward. |
| Riser |
n. |
A feed head. See under Feed, n. |
