RISE

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.

To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.

To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.

To grow upward; to attain a certain heght; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.

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.

To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.

To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. He that would thrive, must rise by five. Old Proverb.

To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.

To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. "A rising ground." Dryden.

To retire; to give up a siege. He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone. Knolles.

To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.

To have the aspect or the effect of rising. Specifically: --

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.

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.

To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.

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.

To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. Specifically: --

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.

To become of higher value; to increase in price. Bullion is risen to six shillings . . . the ounce. Locke.

To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like.

To increase in intensity; -- said of heat.

To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.

To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.

In various figurative senses. Specifically: --

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.

To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Shak.

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.

To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures. Spectator.

To come; to offer itself. There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book. Spenser.

To ascend from the grave; to come to life. But now is Christ risen from the dead. 1. Cor. xv. 20.

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.

To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.

To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form.

The act of rising, or the state of being risen.

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.

Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land. [Colloq.]

Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream. All wickednes taketh its rise from the heart. R. Nelson.

Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet. Shak.

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.

Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice. The ordinary rises and falls of the voice. Bacon.

Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.

The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.