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A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.

Rising. [Obs.] Drayton.

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. Browne.

Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude (Astron.), the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the li…

The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise. Owen.

The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton.

Act of rising. The . . . assurgency of the spirit through the body. Coleridge.

rising obliquely; curving upward. Gray.

Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis.

The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics. Electric ~, a supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.…

The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. "Axillary buds." Gray.

A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.

Foam rising upon beer, or other malt liquors, when fermenting, and used as leaven in making bread and in brewing; yeast. Shak.

The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue. [Obs.] If no basis bear my rising name. Pope.