1630 W. Vaughan Newlanders Cure i. ix. 82 Remedies for the straightnesse of the Breast, and the rising of the Lights.

1662 J. Graunt Nat. & Polit. Observ. Bills Mortality 28 What I have said of the Rickets, and stopping of the Stomach, I do in some measure say of the Rising of the Lights also.

1701 J. Harvey Scelera Aquarum 15 Mr. Graunt adds his own Observations on the Affinity of Convulsions, Rickets, Stoppage of the Stomach, Rising of the Lights, and other New Diseases.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. v. iv. 590 No commentator on the bills of mortality has been able to explain the great mortality attributed to rising of the lights.

1874 Man. Homœopathic Vet. Med. (ed. 2) iv. 252 Inflammation of the lungs, or rising of the lights amongst pigs, may be recognized by the usual symptoms.

1913 E. M. Wright Rustic Speech & Folklore 215 In some districts the choking sensation in the throat known as the rising of lights is held to forebode death.

2007 A. Tinniswood Verneys i. vii. 153 ‘Rising of the lights’—post-partum pulmonary embolus—and the more generic ‘death in childbirth’ between them accounted for one death in thirty-eight during the middle years of the seventeenth century.

1660 J. Harding tr. B. Valentine Triumphant Chariot Antimony 94 The best Treasure for allaying the Risings of the Matrix.

1730 tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Compl. Herbal II. 74/1 Three or four Drops of the Chymical Oil at a time at most, taken in Broth or Wine, wonderfully removes the Giddiness of the Head,..and the Rising of the Matrix.

2005 K. L. Peterson in E. L. Furdell Textual Healing vii. 154 Because uterine disease has so many manifestations, ‘the rising of the matrix’, ‘strangulation of the matrix’..and hystericus globus (hysterical ball) are possible conditions (to name just a few) of the wandering uterus or of an afflicted stationary uterus.

c1450 J. Metham Palmistry (Garrett) in Wks. (1916) 106 Yt sygnyfyith that..yft yt be a women, sche schuld dey off chyld-byrth or ellys off rysyng of the modyr.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 40 The rising or suffocation of the mother in women..it cureth.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §935 They doe use for the Accident of the Mother, to burn Feathers [etc.]: and by those Ill Smels the Rising of the Mother is put down.

1724 W. Stukeley Of Spleen 77 And what they call the rising of the mother, is only the like consent and convulsion of the mesentery, the womb and parts adjacent.

1830 Lancet 15 May 234/2 Their theory, I believe, was, that, as the disease consisted in a rising of the mother, these fœtid matters by the mouth would disgust her, and induce her to go down.

1979 T. R. Forbes in C. Webster Health Med. Mortality 16th Cent. iv. 128 Seventeenth-century physicians argued as to whether ‘rising of the lights’ was the same as ‘rising of the mother’.

1588 in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1892) 97/2 He (Florence) claimeth there, Risinge out, the findage of 50 Gallyglass.

c1600 J. Dymmok Treat. Ireland (1842) 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.

1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xv. 213 What with Countrey risings out, and under Captaines in pay, two thousand of these were of Irish birth.

1754 J. Lodge Peerage of Ireland I. 109 A Rising out of twenty Horsemen and 116 Footmen.

1767 F. Warner Hist. Rebellion & Civil-war Ireland iii. 149 Terrified by the rising out of some horse and foot at Dublin.

1867 D. MacCarthy Life Florence MacCarthy 459 The MacCarthys of Gleann-a-Chroim..were not bound to attend the Rising out of MacCarthy Reagh.

1976 T. W. Moody et al. New Hist. Ireland (1991) i. 32 It is probable that the greater part of the rising-out were automatically classed as kern.

c1620 Treat. Shipbuilding (modernized text) in W. Salisbury & R. C. Anderson Treat. Shipbuilding & Treat. Rigging (1958) 15 The rising lines must neither be too high nor too low, nor the narrowing lines too lank nor too full, nor the sweeps of the bend too round or too straight.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. x Whereas all Ships before..were built by rising Lines,..he built that by Horizontal ones.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Rising line, a name given by shipwrights to an incurvated line, which is drawn..to determine the height of the ends of all the floor-timbers.

1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 585/2 By this and a hollow mould, all the timbers are formed, as far as the rising-line.

1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 102 Dead-rising, or Rising-line, those parts of a vessel's floor, throughout her whole length, where the floor timber is terminated upon the lower futtock.

1989 B. Lavery Nelson's Navy iii. i. 59/1 (caption) Sheer plan of a ship, showing the use of the rising line of centres of floor sweeps, and the length on the gundeck.

1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation ii. ii. 142 Shew in what manner the timbers are moulded after they are laid down in the mould loft, by a rising square.

1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 126 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.

1664 E. Bushnell Compl. Ship-wright 21 Take off all the Risings, and mark them on the Rising Staffe.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Tablette, the rising-staff; a form, or scale, used by shipwrights when erecting the frames of the timbers.

1766 W. Sutherland Ship-builder's Assistant (new ed.) v. 68 Set off the Heights of the rising Strait and rising Line.

1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 126 Rising straight, 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.

1750 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 6) at Ship (plate) The rising or Dead Wood.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 142 The floor-timbers..are..raised upon a solid body of wood called the dead or rising wood.

1918 W. J. Thompson Wooden Shipbuilding i. 66 The..rising-wood..must have more or less rising as the body of the ship assumes more or less fulness or capacity.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 604/l. 31 Precox, sunnerysynge.

a1525 Contempl. Synnaris l. 419, in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 202 As mortall man..Is lyke a rysand floure in a gardyn.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 102 To heare thee tell His Generation, and the rising Birth Of Nature. View more context for this quotation

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 18 His Cradle shall with rising Flow'rs be crown'd.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 523. ¶1 I Am always highly delighted with the discovery of any rising Genius among my Countrymen.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 77. ⁋14 The hopes of the rising generation.

1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1790) I. vii. 75 The rising vigour of Venice was permitted to grow.

1822 R. G. Wallace 15 Years in India 323 All the villages..appeared in a flourishing condition, with a numerous rising generation.

1870 M. D. Conway Earthward Pilgrimage xxvi. 311 The rising generation is sitting at the feet of men of genius who train it into antagonism to the Church.

1904 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 8 Jan. 2 I joined the Saddle club sixty years ago and I still stick to it, but the rising generation has joined the Automobile club.

2005 New Yorker 17 Oct. 162/1 Avant-gardes are always cults of difficulty..by which a rising generation exploits its biological advantages.

1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xx. 231 He beareth, Azure, three Bustards rising, Or.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 478/2 A Stork surgiant... This is by some termed a Stork rising, as having its Wings disclosed..and preparing for flight.

1722 A. Nisbet Syst. Heraldry I. v. 349 Crest, an Eagle rising reguardant.

1771 E. Kimber & R. Johnson Wotton's Baronetage of Eng. II. 42 On a Wreath, a Falcon (or Eagle) rising, Or.

c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Tergiant, surgant, or surgiant, as an eagle, &c. rising, with the back to sight.

1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) vi. 89 Rising, or Rousant, about to rise, or take wing. This term is usually employed in blazoning Swans.

1909 F. M. Smith Colonial Families Amer. 204 William Martin of Woodbury, Connecticut, 1680, bore:..Crest: on a globe, or, a falcon rising argent, gorged with a ducal coronet.

1993 B. J. Stein U.S. Army Heraldic Crests ii. 84/1 The insignia is the crest of the organization, consisting of a hawk rising, wings elevated, charged upon an eight-pointed orange star surrounded by a black sword belt.

1893 Kappa Alpha Jrnl. July 434 Mr. Young is a rising Sophomore and was asked to join us the first of the year.

1931 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 31 790/3 The candidates are chosen from the rising senior class.

1974 News & Reporter (Chester, S. Carolina) 22 Apr. 5- a/3 Miss Swing..is a rising junior at the University of North Carolina.

2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Apr. 111/3 (advt.) Your rising senior or high school graduate can earn two college credits.

1931 G. Noël-Armfield Gen. Phonetics (ed. 4) xiii. 69 These [signs] may be combined to showing falling-rising, rising-falling, and so forth.

1955 Archivum Linguisticum 7 155 The Greek circumflex is not, essentially, a rising-falling accent.

1964 R. 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.

1809 W. Mitford Princ. Design in Archit. xv. 113 Its [sc. the Grecian column's] lines, converging as they rise,..are at discord, not amounting to contrast, with the diverging lines of a rising arch.

1902 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 50 509/2 The wide windows..must be spanned..by girders, as there is so little room for rising arches or other means of construction.

1964 Stained Glass Spring 9 An eighty foot high free-form space that accomplishes in this contemporary building what the great pillars and rising arches did for Gothic architecture.

1769 W. Ludlam Astron. Observ. St. John's Coll. Cambr. 37 As the back of the case is a single board only half an inch thick, and the frame-plates on which the pendulum hangs, are fastened to it, to strengthen that part, a mahogany board..was put cross the back (but not glued to it) just above the rising board.

1798 Fragm. Illustr. Holy Script.: App. Calmet's Dict.:1st Hundred 116 With these boards the water rises also: for it cannot flow out on the side, nor at the top, nor at the bottom, since these are enclosed; neither can it flow out behind, since there the rising board stops it.

1813 ‘T. Martin’ Circle Mech. Arts 591/1 After having screwed down the frame of the work to the rising board as usual, the crutch must be held fast..so as to bring the clock into beat.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative 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.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 404/2 A clock..should be securely fixed. The common mode is to fasten the case by strong bolts, under the rising board and again about as low as the pendulum bob, to a stone pillar or through a wall.

1983 T. S. Reynolds Stronger than Hundred Men i. 12 (caption) Overshot vertical water wheel... (k) rising boards, boards radial to the shaft in overshot wheels, nailed to the soal and forming the bottom of the buckets.

1852 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 40 346 The patentees make both sides of the guides adjustable, and are thereby enabled to keep the rising box in a line with the shuttle-race.

1917 Textile Amer. Jan. 23/3 Looms with a single box at one side and rising, or circular boxes at the other, also in ordinary looms with rising boxes at each side.

1959 A. H. Nissan Textile Engin. Processes 179 If one rising box mechanism is illustrated and discussed, the general principles of all rising box mechanisms should be understood.

1836 L. Hebert Engineer's & Mechanic's Encycl. I. 675 Those hinges termed rising-butts, whose rubbing surfaces move in a spiral, or rather a helical line upwards on opening the door [etc.].

1866 Tomlinson'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.

1944 D. E. Warland Teach yourself Constructional Details vii. 104 Rising butts are used where it is required to raise a door when it opens so that it may clear a carpet, etc., and to make the door self-closing.

1978 Popular Science May 150/2 The rising butt is an ingenious hinge that automatically lifts a door over thick carpeting or uneven flooring to eliminate jamming or scraping.

2004 Pop. Mech. 146/2 Because some of the floors are uneven, I would like to replace the door hinges with rising butt hinges.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1457 When the second description of rising cupboard is used, it is necessary to have one for each floor.

1868 A. J. Downing Cottage Archit. in Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Archit. Historians 2 (1942) 29 We should introduce all manner of labor saving devices, such as the rising cupboard or dumb waiter, the speaking tube, and the rotary pump.

1852 Times 30 July 3/1 Double-roomed tents, adapted for living and sleeping apartments, with improved dressed cloths for floors, as a preventative to the rising damps.]

1859 L. Feuchtwanger Pop. Treat. Gems iii. 435 Strong slabs are formed..which are almost perfectly impervious to moisture or rising damp.

1905 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 25 109 This [sc. the renovation of cities and shrines in Ptolemaic Egypt] had to be done at Naukratis in a thoroughgoing way, probably owing to rising damp.

1956 W. A. G. Bradman Taking Care of Your Home iv. 61 Rising damp..is invariably characterized by a line of dampness appearing above the skirtings.

1975 Times 30 Oct. 6/5 The walls had been sodden with rising damp for years.

1888 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds (new ed.) 9 A ‘rising’..diphthong.

1892 J. 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.

1960 P. 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.

1968 Times 24 Apr. 2/4 In addition about 500 ‘rising fives’—children whose fifth birthday falls after today—could not be accepted until May 6.

1975 Lang. for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xx. 293 One of the most profitable achievements was to build up a pre-reception class for rising-5s.

1989 Church Times 27 Jan. 12/4 Has he been ‘into’ plainsong since he was a ‘rising five’?

2003 M. Crossley & K. Watson Compar. & Internat. Res. in Educ. iii. 40 State provision..[in the United Kingdom] frequently included the rising fives, whereas in much of Europe formal schooling does not begin until six or even seven years of age.

1792 A. Boyer Dictionnaire françois-anglois et anglois-françois 593 Varangue plate. A flat floor-timber. Varangue fort aculée. A rising floor-timber amidships. Têtes des varangues. The floor-heads.]

1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 159 When the body is constructed by a rising floor, the floor sweeps are all of one length.

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. at 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.

1951 H. I. Chapelle Amer. Small Sailing Craft v. 287 Drawings of larger craft..and a rigged model indicate many..had a rising floor, hard bilge, and a slight flare in the sides.

1860 Photogr. News 7 Dec. 381/1 This invention essentially consists of a portable and commodious folding chamber, and a light, cone-shaped camera, with rising front to carry the lenses.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 42 The rising front is most useful when taking views uphill.

2002 M. G. Harris Professional Archit. Photogr. (ed. 3) 128 Architects like to see perfect vertical lines in the images of their buildings, easily achieved through the use of a simple rising-front shift movement.

1798 T. Jefferson Let. 10 May in Papers (2003) XXX. 343 The dove-tail rising hinge..raises the door as it opens.

1833 Times 12 June 3/3 (advt.) Redmund's Patent Rising Hinges, which rise over the most uneven floors and carpets, yet when shut exclude annoying draughts under doors.

1897 T. W. Barber Engineer's Sketch-bk. (ed. 3) §50 116 Rising hinge, to cause the door to lift slightly as it opens, it will then close of itself without a spring.

1996 A. Evans & B. Evans North Lakeland iii. 113 Go through a gate with a rising hinge.

1804 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 6 i. 97 The drawing in Plate II, Fig. 9, will explain its construction; A the working barrel. B the piston. C the feed-pipe. D the rising main pipe.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 189/2 Four pipes or rising-mains, the lower end of each being connected with a valve~box.

1901 W. Grafton Handbk. Pract. Gas-fitting viii. 110 Insuch [sic] a case the gas company would run the rising main up to the top floor inside the building.

1910 Encycl. Brit. IX. 198/2 The general arrangement for distributing current to the different portions of a building for the purpose of electric lighting is to run up one or more rising mains, from which branches are taken off..on each floor.

1967 G. A. T. Burdett Electr. Installations 37 Where conditions allow there are advantages in using purpose-made rising mains.

2004 J. Bridgewater Home Plumbing iii. 26 Main water comes into your home under pressure through a pipe called the rising main.

1832 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. Conjoined Ser. 1 3 By the operation of this mechanism, aided by the adjustment of the screw nut f, which modifies the length of the rising rod d, the lever or rack of the stop-cock or valve h, is moved.

1884 Year-bk. Photogr. & Photogr. News Almanac 1884 164 The camera director..consists of four parts: 1st, a brass plate to attach it to the camera; 2nd, a piece of brass tube to carry the rising rod; [etc.].

2000 Internat. Symp. Hist. Machines & Mechanisms 342 Since the Korean 12 double hour and night hour system kept time simultaneously, the rising rod should trigger balls for both hours.

1851 Yale Lit. Mag. July 362 The plain antique appearance of the building, its benches and walls unstained but by time, the rising seats where are seen the aged preachers, [etc.].

1889 M. C. Lee Quaker Girl Nantucket ii. 28 In the sing-song drawl once peculiar to the tuneful exhortations of the ‘rising’ seat,..he thus held forth.

1922 Friend 30 Mar. 463/2 The Ministers' Gallery faced Farewell Street. On the ‘rising seat’, as it was called, sat David Buffum with his white beaver hat.

1987 D. C. H. Adams in Hist. Nantucket Spring (1988) 26 The meetings were silent unless someone on the rising seat felt the moving of the spirit.

1697 T. Creech tr. Manilius Five Bks. iv. 25 Thus the Posture, and the Sex combine to shew the Influence of the rising Sign.

1712 N. Rowe tr. C. Quillet Callipædia ii. 32 Observe exact the Season and the Hour, in which each rising sign exerts its Pow'r.

1876 Belgravia Dec. 158 The Paschal sacrifice..made in fact, during the lunation following the sun's passage of the equator at the rising sign of Aries.

2005 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 12 Nov. a8/2 I'm a Leo with a Scorpio rising sign.

1606 R. Fletcher Nine Eng. Worthies 50 In forraine Lands Prince Henry is peerelesse. Of all the World our mirror then of might, Our Paragon, most rare and worthie praise, Our Comet, and our rising Starre most bright.

a1766 F. Sheridan Hist. Nourjahad (1767) 2 The sultan loved him, and every one looked on Nourjahad as the rising star of the Persian court.

1872 Canad. Monthly Mar. 219/1 Tennyson at that time was the rising star in the world of poetry.

1980 B. Sicherman & C. H. Green Notable Amer. Women 95/2 By the end of 1924 she had made thirteen films and was regularly referred to as a rising star.

2007 Sun (Nexis) 19 Oct. England's rising star is the Bacchus grape, used for clean, fresh white wines.

c1620 Treat. Shipbuilding (modernized text) in W. Salisbury & R. C. Anderson Treat. Shipbuilding & Treat. Rigging (1958) 8 After those flats, when they [sc. the ship's frame-timbers] rise and narrow more sensibly they are called rising timbers, the narrowing and rising whereof do make the gripe forward on and the run aftward on..and where the line directing these timbers intersect is called the tuck.

1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services 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.

1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation ii. ii. §i. 133 The breeches of the rising timbers.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 230 It [sc. the cutting-down line]..must be carried up so high upon the stern as to leave sufficient substance for the breeches of the rising timbers.

1914 Trans. Soc. Naval Architects & Marine Engineers 22 141 It was decided that oak should be used for the flooring and rising timbers of the frigates.

1988 Technol. & Culture 29 948 The determination of the rising (or sweep of rising timbers).

1884 E. Karr Amer. Horsewoman viii. 211 Another cause of awkwardness in the rising trot is an improperly constructed saddle.

1975 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 11 June 13 a/1 (caption) Ricky Knowles on Teaser does a rising trot with the aid of his teachers at Thorncroft Riding School.

2006 P. Sidnell Warhorse viii. 313 Leg pressure and good posture should do most of the work of signalling the horse, balancing and taking one's weight when raising oneself from the saddle in rising trot.

1827 Messenger for Holston Conf. 10 Nov. 709 The conference, by a unanimous rising vote, returned thanks to the Rev. Mr. Nelson.

1912 Proc. 9th Ann. Meeting Railway Storekeepers' Assoc. 41 The motion was carried unanimously by a rising vote.

2006 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 28 Sept. b1 She then called for a rising vote, asking those who supported Commisso and his slate to rise and stand in place and be counted.