Search the Dictionary

se; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight. Hence, figuratively: --

Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work.

One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).

e; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels.

The act of setting the value; valuation by an appraiser; estimation of worth.

One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.

To raise. [Obs.] Shak.

To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.

To stew or broil in a covered kettle or pan. A braising kettle has a deep cover which holds coals; consequently the cooking is done from above, as well as below. Mrs. Henderson.

Braised meat.

A kettle or pan for braising.

To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame. Dispraising the power of his adversaries. Chaucer. I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him. Shak.

One who blames or dispraises.

To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward. Wilhelm.

Fortified with a fraise.

Elevated; raised aloft; upreared.

To praise amiss.

To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.

To praise excessively or unduly.

; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov. xxxi. 31. We praise not Hector, though his name, we know, Is great in arms; 't is hard to praise a foe. Dryden.