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▪ I. rising, vbl. n.|ˈraɪzɪŋ|
[f. rise v.]
I.
1. Resurrection. More fully rising again, or rising from the dead.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 81 He hem shewede fortocne bi ionan þe prophete..of his riseng. a1300Cursor M. 17288 + 10 Ded men ros of þer graues..and honoured his rising. c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 3976 Þe thred es of þe rysyng generale Of alle men, bathe grete and smale. 1382Wyclif Matt. xxii. 23 Saducees, that seyen there is no rysyng aȝein. c1450Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 118 His deth and his rysing told he thaym or he went. 1509Fisher Funeral Serm. C'tess Richmond Wks. (1876) 304 The bodyes of them that shall be saued, shall take at theyr rysynge agayne iiij. other excellent gyftes. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 198, I hope and trust vpon the rising of the flesh. 1652Gataker Antinom. 5 His rising from the ded. 1833Tennyson Pal. Art 206 Then of the moral instinct would she prate And of the rising from the dead.
2. a. The action of getting up from bed; occasionally, the time of this.
c1400Rom. Rose 3821 He awakid Ielousy; Which, al afrayed in his rysing [etc.]. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 22965, I kepe the howres off rysynge, To do worschipe vnto the kynge. 1513More Rich. III, Wks. 41/2 At their rising in the dawnynge of the day. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. vii. 34 From the rising of the Larke to the lodging of the Lambe. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 21 Fearing what might happen to me on the rising up of his wife. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 765 Where early rest makes early rising sure. 1829Lytton Disowned i. iii, My good wife only waits your rising to have all ready for breakfast. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 506 His house at Kensington was sometimes thronged, at his hour of rising, by more than two hundred suitors.
attrib.c1820Rogers Italy (1839) 74 Ministers from distant Courts Beset his doors, long ere his rising-hour. 1896A. Austin England's Darling ii. i, Ten score ambers have been lodged in the King's Barn, since rising-time.
†b. A levee. Obs.
1720Mrs. Manley Power of Love (1741) I. 136 Signior Galen..should go next Morning to the Duke's Rising. c1729Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (Roxb.) I. 70 The king being at Windsor, my father went out..to the king's rising.
3. a. The action of standing up or getting on to one's feet from a sitting or reclining posture, or after a fall.
c1440Promp. Parv. 435/1 Rysynge vp fro sete, or restynge place, surrexio, resurrectio. Ibid., Rysynge a-ȝene persone, for worschyppe, assurrexio. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 145 b, That rysyng & sekyng in the narowe lanes signifyeth y⊇ exercyse of vertues. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 248 He to whome all men ought in rising to reuerence. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 476 Thir rising all at once was as the sound Of Thunder heard remote. 1711Addison Spect. No. 12 ⁋2, I was troubled with the Civility of their rising up to me every time I came into the Room. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xvii, A soft sound of rising now became audible. 1869Boutell Arms & Armour vii. (1874) 114 When once he had fallen to the ground, the knight would find the act of rising to be attended with no little difficulty.
fig.a1300Cursor M. 27048 Quen þai vn-mesurli ar radd Efter rising to fall egain. 1382Wyclif Luke ii. 34 This is put in to the fallinge and in to the rysinge aȝen of many men in Israel. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 1070 True in our Fall, False in our promis'd Rising.
b. The breaking up or adjournment of an assembly, esp. at the end of a session.
1700Pennsylv. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 21 After the rising of this assembly, he determines to send the laws to England. 1740C'tess of Hertford Lett. I. lv. 234 The rising of the parliament has very much emptied the town. 1825Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 10 On the rising of the House..I happened to find myself near Governor W. Livingston. 1837Lockhart Scott IV. iii. 80 Upon the rising of the Court in July, he made an excursion to the Lennox. a1849W. Wirt in J. P. Kennedy Life (1860) II. xiv. 228 About the time of the rising of Congress.
4. a. The act of taking up arms or engaging in some hostile action; an insurrection or revolt.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. xxiv. (Bodl. MS.), In þe euetide for rising of enemyes and of þeeues..wecches and wardis beþ ikepte. c1420Brut (Caxton, 1482) 317 In this same yere..ther were many heretykes and lollardes that had purposed to haue made a rysyng. c1440Promp. Parv. 435/1 Rysynge a-ȝen pees, insurrexio, rebellio. 1600E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 148 To assure themselues against the rising of the people. 1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 343 Some lettres speake of an vniuersall risinge, and that London is vnquiett. 1722in Payne Eng. Cath. (1889) 9 Prisoners on account of the unhappy Rising. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. III. lxi. 326 A conspiracy was entered into..and a day of general rising appointed. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxvi, Do you think that the rising upon that occasion was rebellion or not? 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 328 There he held some communication with the Macdonalds and Camerons about a rising. 1874Green Short Hist. iv. §1 A great rising of the whole people at last recovered some of this Norman spoil.
b. rising-out (see quots.). Now only Hist.
The Irish equivalent is eirghe amach.
1600J. Dymmok Ireland (1843) 8 Risingout is a certain number of horsemen and kerne, which the Irishrie and Englishrye are to finde in her majesties service, at every generall hostinge. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. xv. (1821) 380 What with Countrey risings out, and under Captaines in pay, two thousand of these were of Irish birth. 1867D. MacCarthy Life Florence MacCarthy 459 The MacCarthys of Gleann-a-Chroim..were not bound to attend the Rising out of MacCarthy Reagh.
II.
5. Of the heavenly bodies, day, etc.: Appearance above the horizon; the time or place of thus appearing.
a1340Hampole Psalter xlix. 2 Fra þe risynge of þe sone til þe west, of syon þe shape of his fairhede. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxv. (Bodl. MS.), Þe furste..harueste & gaderinge þereof is aboute þe risinge of þe sterre Canis. c1440Astron. Cal. (MS. Ashm. 391), Þe forseid nombres in Reed ye shul vnderstonde for þe risyng of þe sonne and of þe moone. 1535Coverdale Job iii. 9 Let it loke for light, but let it se none, nether the rysynge vp of the fayre mornynge. 1570Dee Math. Pref. b iij, To learne the Risinges and Settinges of Sterres. 1611Bible Num. ii. 3 On the East side toward the rising of the Sunne. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 641 Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 380 Pointing to the setting of the Sun, and then to the rising. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 70 On the rising of the day I saw a large town before me. 1828Moore Pract. Navig. 172 Which is to be counted from the east towards the north, because it is at the sun's rising. 1846Joyce's Sci. Dial. xvii. 109 That the moon loses more time in her risings [etc.].
6.
†a. The source of a river. Obs.—1
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. lxxiii. (Bodl. MS.), In þe ende of este Inde aboute þe ryuer and risinge of Ganges beþ men wiþoute mouþe.
b. The gathering of a storm.
1848Dickens Dombey xlvi, How the light white down upon a robe had stirred and rustled, as in the rising of a distant storm.
7. a. The action or state of ascending; upward movement or course, ascent; an instance of this.
1458in Turner Dom. Archit. (1859) III. i. 42 They reysid up the archeys be gemeotre in rysyng. 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. iv. 22 For this I draw in many a teare, And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighes. 1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 113 Not..before winter..but toward the rising of the yeere. 1614W. B. Philosopher's Banquet (ed. 2) 41 It will procure vnto them the rising of the Splene. 1642R. Brooke Eng. Epis. 116 At the first Rising out of Popery, the Churchlesse Church of the Albigenses..began an admirable Reformation. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 277 ⁋17 The various Leanings and Bendings of the Head, the Risings of the Bosom. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man iv, Then let us reserve our distress till the rising of the curtain. 1820W. Scoresby Acc. Arc. Regions I. 375 The rising of the mercury usually precedes the cessation of a storm. 1865J. Fergusson Hist. Arch. I. 214 The only danger to be feared [in domes] is what is technically called a rising of the haunches.
attrib.1688Holme Armoury ii. 150/1 Neer side, or the Rising side, is the left side of the horse, which side Men get on the horse-back.
b. rising of the lights: (see quots. 1772, 1894 and lights). Now dial. † rising of the matrix (cf. mother n.1 12 b), hysteria. Obs.
1660J. H. tr. Basil. Valent. Chariot Antim. 94 The best Treasure for allaying the Risings of the Matrix. 1665M. N. Med. Medicinæ 48 Another Disease which the people term the Rising of the Lights. 1731Gentl. Mag. I. (last page), The Diseases and Casualties this Year... Rising of the lights 37. 1759Brown Compl. Farmer 12 For the rising of the Lights. Take four ounces of turmerick in a quart of small beer. 1772W. Buchan Dom. Med. (ed. 2) 681 In some parts of England, where I have observed it [sc. croup], the good women call it the rising of the lights. 1845McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) II. 612 No commentator on the bills of mortality has been able to explain the great mortality attributed to rising of the lights. 1894N. & Q. 8th Ser. VI. 516 In this district [round Coventry] a sense of fulness in the throat, accompanied by oppressed breathing,..is attributed to a ‘rising of the lights’.
c. In dancing, an upward movement of the body caused by raising the heels from the ground.
1694Motteux Rabelais v. xxiv. (1737) 105 Coupés, Hops, Leadings, Risings. 1765Foote Commissary ii. Wks. 1799 II. 22, I would show you what I could do: one, two, three, ha. One, two, three, ha. There are risings and sinkings!
d. fig. An impulse or movement of an emotional nature; also, a physical feeling indicative of, or resulting from, this.
1726–46Thomson Winter 599 If doom'd..to repress These ardent risings of the kindling soul. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. vii. 286 It is difficult to repress the risings of indignation. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. ix, Gulping down..resolutely some kind of rising in his throat, and turning..round. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxvi, With a new rising of dislike to a wife who..might have the power of thwarting him. 1874Carpenter Ment. Phys. i. vii. (1879) 333 The patient may be led to cultivate her own power of repressing the first risings of..excitement.
8. Advancement in power, rank, or fortune. Also const. up.
1595Shakes. John i. i. 216 Yet to auoid deceit I meane to learne; For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. 325 The most miserable state of Rome citie under Maximinus the Præfect, whose parentage and rising is described. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 201 Know'st thou not that my rising is thy fall, And my promotion will be thy destruction? 1712Steele Spect. No. 497 ⁋1 Till the Order of Battel made way for his rising in the Troops. 1810Lamb in Ainger Life (1882) 91 To give..some idea of the difference of rank and gradual rising I have made a little scale. 1863Sat. Rev. 19 Sept. 383 There would be no rising in the world, no new blood, no fresh source of life and strength in society. 1942W. S. Churchill End of Beginning (1943) 145 People very often fall by the very means which they have used and built their hopes upon for their rising-up!
9. a. Increase in height of the tides or water.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 45 Of the rysynge & faulynge of owre Ocean Sea. 1705Addison Italy 436 Forc'd to pay an unreasonable Exaction at every Ferry upon the least Rising of the Waters. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XIII. 68/1 The connection of this celestial sign [the dog-star] with the annual rising of the river. 1865Kingsley Herew. xxxi, William waited for the rising of the tide. 1871― At Last viii, The Mauritia palm-tree..affords the Guaraons a safe dwelling during the risings of the Oroonoco.
b. Founding. The boiling up of melted metal after it has been poured into the mould.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 320 This accident, called the rising of the copper, hinders it from being laminated. 1884Science IV. 331 The rising of steel, and consequently the formation of blow-holes, is attributed to hydrogen and nitrogen, and to a small extent to carbonic oxide.
10. Mus. Increase of pitch.
1597T. Morley Introd. Mus. 102 Here is also another waie in the tenth, which the maisters call per arsin & thesin, that is by rising and falling. 1674Playford's Skill Mus. iii. (ed. 7) 4 If the Bass do rise more than a fourth, it must be called falling: and likewise, if it fall any distance more than a fourth, that falling must be called rising. 1730Treat. Harmony 36 Anticipation in Rising or Ascending, is the bringing in a Note upon the Unaccented Part of the Bar, in such a manner as that it has not yet its right Harmony. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XII. 530/1 If we pass alternately from a third minor in descending to a third major in rising.
11. a. A part or thing standing out above its surroundings; a prominence or projection.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 29 Where wheate hath a clift, there hath it a rising. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 240 It is good to use your horse to backing.., as well from the plain ground as from blocks and risings invented for the ease of man. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 26 In all the Halls and Chambers they have a rising half a foot or a foot high from the Floor, which they call Divans. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 265 On the Border of the Wall there was a Rising..which served by way of Ornament and Fence. 1763Phil. Trans. LIII. 171 On each side of the back there are two considerable sharp edged risings. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 121 The head was long, and had a little rising at the top.
b. A morbid swelling; an abscess, tumour, boil. Now dial. or U.S.
1563T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 158 The raw meat of the Gourd shred, and laid plaister-wise on swelings and hard risings of the flesh, dooth greatlie aswage them. 1606Holland Sueton. 74 Certaine hard risings of thicke brawnie skinne. a1660Hammond Serm. iv. I. (1850) 53 To prick the rising, and let out the putrid humour. 1834W. Sewall Diary 7 Dec. (1930) 160/1 Laid up with a bad rising on my hand. 1847Halliw., Rising, a small abscess, or boil. West. 1867A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi xi. 133 He spoke of a swelling upon his knee as a ‘rising’. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling xix. 236 None of us ain't got risin's. 1949T. Capote Other Voices v. 104, I had me a rising on my butt big as a baseball. 1972E. Wigginton Foxfire Bk. 244 Scrape the white of an Irish potato and place the scrapings on the bump. Bind them on with a clean cloth. This will draw the risin' (boil) to a head.
12. a. The upward slope of a hill; a piece of rising ground; a hill or mound.
1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Cliuus, Mollis cliuus, an easie rysinge of the hyll. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. v. ii. 46 But mount you presently, and meete with me Vpon the rising of the Mountaine foote That leads toward Mantua. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §46 (1810) 53 Richard Duke..built a..house upon the rising over the river. 1679Lond. Gaz. No. 1420/3 In the mean time my Lord General..drew up upon the Rising. 1717Berkeley Tour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 556 Nothing more than gentle hills or risings. 1782Pennant Journ. Chest. to Lond. 100 The situation is delightful.., with small risings on almost every side. 1836F. Sykes Scraps fr. Jrnl. 99 Houses here and there peeping forth from risings. 1891Daily News 23 Oct. 5/7 On the small risings and strips of still uncovered grass.
b. Gradual or direct increase in elevation.
1684R. H. Sch. Recreat. 83 Observe..the Risings, Fallings, and Advantages of the Places where you Bowl. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 21 Gardens have no Risings, nor Fallings. 1725W. Halfpenny Sound Building 28 The Risings or Heighths of the Steps. 1771Encycl. Brit. III. 585/2 A long floor-timber..not of great rising. 1797― (ed. 3) XVII. 378/2 Half breadth of the rising, is a curve in the floor plan, which limits the distances [etc.].
c. Mining. (See quot. and rise n. 10 b.)
1855J. R. Leifchild Cornwall 138 All excavations made horizontally are designated drivings, those directed downwards sinkings, and those upwards risings.
13. Naut. (See quots. c 1635 and c 1850.)
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 6 Also the halfe Decke and quarter Decke, whereon the beames and timbers beare are called risings. c1635N. Boteler Dial. Sea Services (1685) 124 Which are these Risings? Those thick Plancks,..which go fore and aft, on both sides under the ends of the Beams and Timbers of the second Deck unto the third Deck. 1664E. Bushnell Shipwright 21 Take off all the Risings, and mark them on the Rising Staffe. 1827Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. 178 Their risings consist of two planks from 16 to 18 inches broad. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 142 The Rising of Boats is a narrow strake of board fastened within side to support the thwarts.
Comb.1664Rising staff [see above]. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Tablette, the rising-staff; a form, or scale, used by shipwrights when erecting the frames of the timbers. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 142 Rising square, a square used in whole moulding, upon which is marked the height of the rising line above the upper edge of the keel.
14. The action of raising. rare—1.
1552in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 212 To cease theyr digging and rising of bancks in the sayd pastures.
15. a. dial. Yeast, leaven; a fermenting agent. Also Comb., as (salt-)rising bread (N. Amer.).
1594Lyly Mother Bombie ii. i. 117 My wits worke like barme, alias yest, alias sizing, alias rising, alias Gods good. 1668Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 331 Rising, Yeast or Barm, so called from the manner of its rising above the Ale or Beer. 1836Backwoods of Canada 184 She must know how to manufacture hop-rising or salt-rising for leavening her bread. 1865Mrs. Stowe House & Home Papers 236 Salt-rising bread. 1875–in dial. glossaries (Yorkshire, Norfolk, Surrey, Sussex). 1882G. M. Barbour Florida iii. 56 The feast of hog, hominy, beef..and likely a few villainous compounds of flour, cheapest brown sugar, ‘or sirup, and called cake or ‘risin'-bread’. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 3 Feb. 10/7 The Western correspondent..is talking about a foodstuff that resembles salt-rising bread..about as much as lady fingers resemble Russian black bread... Only a slight quantity of corn meal is used in the preparation of salt-rising bread. 1960J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 172 The meat..was flanked by plates of moist and closely knit salt-rising bread. 1973L. Russell Everyday Life Colonial Canada viii. 96 ‘Salt⁓rising’ bread was made without benefit of yeast.
b. U.S. The quantity of dough set to rise for a batch of bread.
1890in Cent. Dict.
▪ II. rising, ppl. a.|ˈraɪzɪŋ|
[f. rise v.]
1. a. Having an upward slope or lie; elevated above the surrounding or adjacent level.
1548Patten Exped. Scotl. E iv, Nie to a church..stondynge vpon a mean risyng hill sumwhat higher then the site of their campe. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 260 They..hale it to some rising hill without. 1677Hubbard Indian Wars (1865) I. 145 The Fort was raised upon a Kind of Island of five or six Acres of rising Land in the midst of a Swamp. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xiii. ⁋3 File off the rising side of the Punch, which brings the Face to an exact Level. 1730A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 266 This rising Place projected from the Wall. 1742Leoni Palladio's Archit. I. 81 The Way..was a little rising in the middle, that no Water might stay upon it. 1793Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v. Assurgens, Rising up in a curve... A rising petiole,—rising leaves. 1807Gass Jrnl. 41 Passed handsome rising prairies on the north side. 1826A. Butler Fragments 147 Dost thou not see Another king..Pursue that rising road?
b. esp. rising ground. (Freq. hyphened.)
1617Moryson Itin. ii. 272 A rising grounde lying betweene the Campe and the Castle. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 68 The Castle upon the South Side stands upon a Rising Ground. 1736Drake Eboracum 167 This being a rising ground the prince sent a party to dislodge them. 1781Cowper Hope 46 The yellow tilth, green meads, rocks, rising grounds. 1839Thirlwall Greece IV. 423 An exhausted remnant..at length reached a rising ground. 1867Howells Ital. Journ. 189 Our horses were brought to a stand on a rising ground.
†c. Of the nose: Turned up, snub. Obs.
1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4508/3 The said Margaret is about 25 Years of Age, long, lean and pale Visag'd, a rising Nose.
2. a. That ascends or rises; mounting.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 10 His Cheekes looke pale, and with a rising sigh, He wisheth you in Heauen. 1605― Lear ii. iv. 122 Oh me my heart! My rising heart! But downe. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 75 And with it rose Satan involv'd in rising Mist. 1726–46Thomson Winter 2 See, Winter comes,..Sullen, and sad, with all his rising train: Vapours, and Clouds, and Storms. 1754Gray Poesy 40 O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom. 1860Merc. Mar. Mag. VII. 339 A gradually rising glass foretells improving weather if the thermometer falls. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. IV. 73 Norwich, with its newly rising castle, was put under his special care.
b. Of tides or water: Mounting, increasing in height. Also fig.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 442 With a roaring sound The rising Rivers float the nether Ground. 1781Cowper Retirem. 532 The rising waves..Thunder and flash upon the stedfast shores. 1817Shelley Rev. Islam xi. x, As on a foam-girt crag some seaman tossed Stares at the rising tide. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 174 He would stem the rising tide of revolution.
c. Starting or springing up.
1728Pope Dunc. iv. 426, I saw, and started from its vernal bow'r, The rising game.
3. Of the heavenly bodies: Appearing or emergent above the horizon. Also transf. (quot. 1610).
1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 66 As the morning steales vpon the night..so their rising sences Begin to chace the ignorant fumes that mantle Their cleerer reason. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 551 Spires and Pinnacles..Which now the Rising Sun guilds with his beams. 1709E. Singer Love & Friendship i, While..rising Night the Ev'ning Shade extends. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xv, The rising moon threw a shadowy light upon the terrace. 1816Scott Old Mort. xliii, The beams of the rising sun, which glanced on the first broken waves of the fall. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. v. 39 The moon..turned a pale face towards the rising day. 1896A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xliv, Right you guessed the rising morrow.
4. a. Increasing in degree, force, or intensity; advancing, growing.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 58 With which small victory contenting himselfe, as with the good beginning of his rising fortune, he returned backe againe into his kingdome. 1703Rowe Fair Penit. i. i, A rising storm of Passion shook her Breast. 1703― Ulysses iv. i, Long I strove with rising Indignation. 1742Gray Propertius ii. 23 Riseing winds the face of Ocean sweep. 1808Scott Marm. i. xvi, Lord Marmion..With pain his rising wrath suppress'd. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 341 The rising importance of Leeds had attracted the notice of successive governments. 1885Truth 28 May 848/2 The poplars are bent by the rising wind.
b. Advancing in fortune, influence, or dignity.
1631R. Bolton Comf. Affl. Consc. (1640) 139 Had Paul addrest himselfe to have satisfied their curiosities, as many a rising, temporizing trenchar-Chaplaine would have done. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 64 They that perceived he was a Rising-man and of pleasant Conversation. 1709Steele Tatler No. 61 ⁋15 'Tis natural for distant Relations to claim Kindred with a rising Family. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. xxvii. II. 127 Thenceforward he was looked on at court as a rising man. 1835A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara (ed. 2) III. 265 He is..the most rising man in the Cabool dominions. 1863Trevelyan Compet. Wallah (1866) 119, I know of no better company in the world than a rising civilian. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars v. 240 A pleasant little brief for a rising barrister to hold.
c. Increasing in pitch. Also, characterized by increase in vocal stress or a rise in pitch. Also Comb., as rising-falling.
1674Campion Music 22 By rule, instead of the rising third, it should fall into the eight. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 656/1 The rising tone gives to the voice somewhat of the effect of an interrogation. 1879E. Prout Harmony xi, The very rare reverse case.., the falling second and rising third. 1881G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 40, I call rising rhythm that in which the slack comes first, as in iambs and anapests, falling that in which the stress comes first, as in trochees and dactyls. 1894H. Sweet Anglo-Saxon Reader (ed. 7) p. xciv, There is a tendency to combine different types in a line, the falling types A and D being most frequent in I, while in II the rising types B and C are preferred. 1931G. Noël-Armfield Gen. Phonetics (ed. 4) xiii. 69 These [signs] may be combined to showing falling-rising, rising-falling, and so forth. 1955Archivum Linguisticum VII. 155 The Greek circumflex is not, essentially, a rising-falling accent. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 111 Tones may..rise or fall, or rise and fall, or fall and rise (rising, falling, rising-falling, falling-rising tones, respectively), and be distinguished by the actual direction in which the pitch moves. 1973Archivum Linguisticum IV. 19 Typical sequences of tones..in which a final falling tone is preceded by a rising tone.
5. Coming into existence; developing, growing.
1667Milton P.L. vii. 102 To heare thee tell His Generation, and the rising Birth Of Nature. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. iv. 27 His Cradle shall with rising Flow'rs be crown'd. 1712Addison Spect. No. 523 ⁋1, I am always highly delighted with the discovery of any rising Genius among my Countrymen. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 77 ⁋14 The hopes of the rising generation. 1781J. Moore View Soc. It. (1790) I. vii. 75 The rising vigour of Venice was permitted to grow. 1822R. G. Wallace 15 Yrs. in India 323 All the villages..appeared in a flourishing condition, with a numerous rising generation. 1870Conway Earthw. Pilgr. xxvi. 311 The rising generation is sitting at the feet of men of genius who train it into antagonism to the Church.
6. Special collocations: rising arch, a rampant arch (Knight, 1875); rising-board (see quot.); rising butt, = rising hinge; rising cupboard, a kitchen-lift; rising damp, moisture absorbed from the ground into a wall; rising diphthong Phonetics, a diphthong in which the final vowel is more prominent; rising floor (see quot.); rising front, Photogr., a camera front which can be elevated so as to reduce the foreground in a view; rising hinge, one which raises the door, etc., as it opens; rising main, (a) the vertical pipe of a pump; (b) an electricity main passing from one floor of a building to another; rising rod, part of the mechanism of a Cornish steam-engine (Knight, 1875); rising seat, one of a set of ascending seats, facing the congregation, in a Quakers' meeting-house; rising strait, timbers, wood (see quots.); rising sun: see sun n.1 2 a.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 88 There are other boards placed obliquely which extend..to the rim of the wheel, and nearly fill the space between one float-board and the next. These are called *rising-boards.
1866Tomlinson's Dict. Arts I. 848/1 Mr. Redmund's hinges are termed *rising butts;..when the door is opened it is lifted up from the floor.
1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1457 When the second description of *rising cupboard is used, it is necessary to have one for each floor.
1956W. A. G. Bradman Taking Care of Your Home iv. 61 *Rising damp..is invariably characterized by a line of dampness appearing above the skirtings. 1975Times 30 Oct. 6/5 The walls had been sodden with rising damp for years.
1888H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (ed. 2) 9 A ‘*rising’..diphthong. 1892J. Wright Primer Gothic Lang. viii. 43 A diphthong may be defined as the combination of a sonantal with a consonantal vowel. And it is called a falling or rising diphthong according as the stress is upon the first or second element. 1960P. H. Reaney Orig. Eng. Place-Names 45 In Devon, OE ēa frequently became a rising diphthong in ME and survives with initial y: Yalland, Yelland.
1846A. Young Naut. Dict. s.v. Floor, The *Rising-Floors imply those floor-timbers which rise gradually from the plane of the mid-ship-floor, so as to sharpen the form of the vessel towards the bow and the stern.
1892Photogr. Ann. II. 42 The *rising front is most useful when taking views uphill.
1807Trans. Soc. Arts XXVI. 196 It obviates the necessity of screw *rising hinges.
1838Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 189/2 Four pipes or *rising⁓mains, the lower end of each being connected with a valve⁓box. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 727/2 Rising mains, in an electrical installation, a mains circuit which runs from one floor of a building to another. 1967G. A. T. Burdett Electr. Installations 37 Where conditions allow there are advantages in using purpose-made rising mains.
a1890M. & C. Lee Quaker Girl of Nantucket 28 (Cent.), In the sing-song drawl once peculiar to the tuneful exhortations of the *rising seat he thus held forth.
c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 142 *Rising strait, in whole moulding, a curve line in the sheer plan, drawn at the intersection of the strait part of the bend-mould, when continued to the middle at each respective timber.
1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 10 The flowre, the sleepers, *rising timbers, garble strake, her rake, the fore reach. c1635N. Boteler Dial. Sea Services (1685) 98 The Hooks placed on the Keel are named Rising-Timbers, in respect that according to the Rising by degrees of these Hooks, so the Rake..and the Run..rise by degrees from her Flat-floor.
1752Chambers Cycl. s.v. Ship (plate) 60 The *rising or Dead Wood. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 142 The floor-timbers..are..raised upon a solid body of wood called the dead or rising wood.
▪ III. rising, pres. pple.|ˈraɪzɪŋ|
[f. rise v.]
1. Her. Preparing for flight; taking wing.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xx. 231 He beareth Azure, three Bustards rising, Or. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 478/2 A Stork surgiant... This is by some termed a Stork rising, as having its Wings disclosed..and preparing for flight. 1868Cussans Heraldry (1893) 95 Rising, or Rousant: about to rise, or take wing. This term is usually employed in blazoning Swans.
2. a. Of horses, and transf. of persons: Approaching (a given age).
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Quality (1792) IV. 23 By virtue of the same oath, [the horse was] four years old, rising five. 1789C. Smith Ethelinde (1814) V. 50 Before next grass, when you'll be rising twenty,..you'll make a match with Davenant. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXV. 138 He [a horse] is now rising seven years old. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green i, Mr. Verdant Green was (in stable language) rising sixteen. 1863Reade Hard Cash I. 11 Young Hardie, rising twenty-one, thought nothing human worthy of reverence, but Intellect.
b. Similarly with to. rare.
1789Trans. Soc. Arts II. 82 Two bulls rising to three years old.
3. U.S.
a. Fully as much as; rather more than.
1837W. Jenkins Ohio Gazetteer 64 It enjoys a yearly income of rising $4,500. 1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. (1859) 367 James Smithson bequeathed to the United States rising half a million of dollars. 1894Winsor Cartier to Frontenac 298 Affairs in Canada, with a population that had grown to rising ten thousand, seemed to be going from worse to worse. 1895Outing XXVII. 254/2 The enclosure contains something rising forty acres.
b. Upwards of, in excess of.
1817Paulding Lett. fr. South II. 121 ‘How much wheat did you raise this year?’ ‘A little rising of five thousand bushels.’ 1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. (1859) 367 There were rising of a thousand men killed at the battle.
Add:[2.] c. rising fives n. pl., children approaching the age of five, esp. those thus qualified to start school; occas. in sing.
1975Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xx. 293 One of the most profitable achievements was to build up a pre-reception class for rising-5s. 1976Milton Keynes Express 18 June 4/4, I would like this opportunity to..make absolutely clear the teachers' position concerning the ‘rising fives’. 1986Ideal Home Sept. 103/4 In many areas, rising-fives are freely admitted to the local infant school. 1987News Let. Friends of Girls' Public Day School Trust 19 The Junior Department thrives. There is a waiting list for our new rising five class. 1989Church Times 27 Jan. 12/4 Has he been ‘into’ plainsong since he was a ‘rising five’? |