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ert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel. Our discontented counties do revolt. Shak. Plant those that have revolted in the van. Shak.

he prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.

ange; any extended elevation between valleys. "The frozen ridges of the Alps." Shak. Part rise crystal wall, or ridge direct. Milton.

Toward the right. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.

To rise in the air spirally.

riously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay.

The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).

imp. of Rise. B. Jonson.

3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth. Chaucer.

To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the present participle or as an adjective. [Eng.] An old cock pheasant came rocketing over me. H. R. Haggard.

A bird, especially a pheasant, which, being flushed, rises straight in the air like a rocket. [Eng.]

g movement of a vessel from side to side, in sea way, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching.

g friction, that resistance to motion experienced by one body rolling upon another which arises from the roughness or other quality of the surfaces in contact. -- Rolling mill, a mill furnished with heavy rolls, between which heated metal is passed, to form it into sheets, rails, etc. -- Rolling press. (a) A machine…

imp. of Rise.

heel; rotary; rotational. This high rotative velocity of the sun must cause an equatorial rise of the solar atmosphere. Siemens. Rotative engine, a steam engine in which the reciprocating motion of the piston is transformed into a continuous rotary motion, as by means of a connecting rod, a working beam and crank, or a…

crosspiece which joins and braces the legs of a chair. All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise. Dryden.

To get or start up; to rise. [Obs.] Night's black agents to their preys do rouse. Shak.

and shape of the roach, but it has the dorsal fin farther back, a stouter body, and red irises. Called also redeye, roud, finscale, and shallow. A blue variety is called azurine, or blue roach.

Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.

lloquially, to cease growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind. -- To run up, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as, accounts of goods credited run up very fast. But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. Sir W. Scott. -- To run with. (a) To be d…