Rise (?), v. i. [imp.
Rose (?); p. p. Risen (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. Rising.] [AS. rīsan; akin
to OS. rīsan, D. rijzen, OHG. rīsan
to rise, fall, Icel. rīsa, 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. --
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.
Rise (?), n. 1. The
act of rising, or the state of being risen.
2. 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.
3. Land which is somewhat higher than the
rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.
[Colloq.]
4. Spring; source; origin; as, the rise
of a stream.
All wickednes taketh its rise from the
heart.
R. Nelson.
5. Appearance above the horizon; as, the
rise of the sun or of a planet. Shak.
6. Increase; advance; augmentation, as of
price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.
The rise or fall that may happen in his constant
revenue by a Spanish war.
Sir W. Temple.
7. Increase of sound; a swelling of the
voice.
The ordinary rises and falls of the
voice.
Bacon.
8. Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward
change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.
9. The spring of a fish to seize food (as a
fly) near the surface of the water.