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A bough or branch; a twig. [Obs.] As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer.

(a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait.

p. p. & a. from Rise. "Her risen Son and Lord." Keble.

One who rises; as, an early riser.

A rush (the plant). [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species. A strong and obvious disposition to risibility. Sir W. Scott.

o laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More.

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

azard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction. The imminent and constant risk of assassination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves. Macaulay.

One who risks or hazards. Hudibras.

Risky. [R.] Geddes.

Attended with risk or danger; hazardous. "A risky matter." W. Collins. Generalization are always risky. Lowell.

Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.

A kind of pottage.

Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin.

imp. of Rise. B. Jonson.

Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidæ, found both in fresh and salt water.

A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.

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

Inability to judge.