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With pauses; haltingly. Shak.

Pertaining to phase or differences of phase.

The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.

Any of several transformers (there must be at least two) for changing phase.

Method of expression; association of words.

Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing manners. "Pleasing harmony." Shak. "Pleasing features." Macaulay. -- Pleas"ing*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ing*ness, n.

So as to pose or puzzle.

o invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner. -- Pre`pos*sess"ing*ly, adv.

Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity. -- Press"ing*ly, adv.

Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day. -- Prom"is*ing*ly, adv.

Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. Sir W. Scott.

Prosily.

fically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. [U.S.]

Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence…

Serving to effect reversal, as of motion; capable of being reversed. Reversing engine, a steam engine having a reversing gear by means of which it can be made to run in either direction at will. -- Reversing gear (Mach.), gear for reversing the direction of rotation at will.

ing, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon.

Having power to awaken or excite; exciting. I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me. Milton.

In a rousing manner.

Lowering or humbling one's self.

The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy. Swift.