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A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.

A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof. Hence:

An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.

That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.

sive odor; a stink. Cowper. Stench trap, a contrivance to prevent stench or foul air from rising from the openings of sewers, drains, etc.

ible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints. [They] rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aërial sky. Milton.

A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

. Daniel. So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. Rogers.

blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes. A deep sound strikes like a rising knell. Byron.

Affecting with strong emotions; surprising; forcible; impressive; very noticeable; as, a striking representation or image; a striking resemblance. "A striking fact." De Quincey. -- Strik"ing*ly, adv. -- Strik"ing*ness, n.

Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.

A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.

An uprising; an insurrection. [R.] Sir W. Temple.

bands of varied colors resembling those seen at sunset or before sunrise; -- called also rising sun.

eaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined. If the vine On rising ground be placed, or hills supine. Dryden.

Rising; swelling, as a flood. [R.] Robert Greene.

Rising in surges or billows; full of surges; resembling surges in motion or appearance; swelling. "Over the surgy main." Pope.

The act of surprising, or state of being surprised; surprise. How to secure the lady from surprisal. Milton. Because death is uncertain, let us prevent its surprisal. Barrow.

Comprising within itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; -- said of species, genera, and higher groups. See the Note under Comprehensive,

A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises. Tantalus's cup (Physics), a philosophical toy, consisting of a cup, within which is the figure of a man, and within the figure a siphon, the longer arm of which passes down through the bottom of the cup, and allows the escape of any liquid that may be poured in, when…