▪ I. raising, vbl. n.
(ˈreɪzɪŋ)
[f. raise v.1 + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the vb., in various senses; spec. in Curling, driving a partner's stone into one of the circles round the tee.
| a 1350 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 134/216 It was bigun..Thurg raising of þe kinges sun. 1388 Wyclif Judith xiv. 9 Thei..ymagyneden by craft vnrestfulnesse for cause of reisyng. 1455 Charter in Liber Eccl. de Scon (Bann. Cl.) 185 In the lifting and raising of the saidez fourti schillingis ȝerly. 1511 Sir R. Guylforde Pylgr. (1851) 25 The very hooly crosse was prouyd by reysinge of a deed woman. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Descerco, the raising of a siege. 1622 E. Misselden Free Trade 106 The dearenesse of things, which the Raising of Money bringeth with it. 1706 J. Ward Introd. Math. ii. ii. §5 (1734) 154 Involution is the Raising or Producing of Powers from any proposed Root. 1781 Cowper Lett. 8 Apr., I send you a cucumber, not of my own raising. 1828 Scott F.M. Perth ii, A sign from Catharine, if that slight raising of her little finger was indeed a sign. 1842 Dickens Amer. Notes II. ii. 58 Down Easters, and men of Boston raising. 1892 J. Kerr in Skating, Curling, etc. 350 Every competitor shall play four shots at..raising, and chipping the winner. 1929 M. C. Work Compl. Contract Bridge p. xv, Any advice given for bidding, raising, etc., applies when the score is ‘love-all’. 1967 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) ix. 11 Raising, the process of excavating a shaft from the bottom upwards. 1978 Sci. Amer. July 112/3 Raising (making a new bet by putting more money into the pot than is required for calling). |
b. So
raising up.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 428/1 Reysynge vp, elevacio. 1530 Palsgr. 260/2 Raysing up of a thyng, leuee. 1597 Gerarde Herbal iii. lxxxviii. 1256 Almonds..serue for the raising vp of flegme and rotten matter. 1684 Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 69 The reason of raising up of that Stage. 1929 D. Runyon in Hearst's International Oct. 63/1 Madame La Gimp figures a baby is not apt to get much raising-up off of her as long as she is on Broadway. 1972 J. S. Hall Sayings from Old Smoky 113 In my raisin' up two or three besides your own would set up with sick people. |
c. With
a and
pl. An instance of this;
spec. in
U.S. a house-raising (see
raise v. 8).
| c 1380 Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 361 Suspendingis, enterditingis, cursingis, and reisingis of croiserie. 1388 ― Ps. xcii. 4 The reisyngis of the see ben wondurful. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. xxvii. xii. 324 Sapor,..by way of open reises and raisings of booties wasted all Armenia. 1651 Rec. Waterhouse, Mass. (1894) I. i. 29 [For] raising of the howse. 1711 J. Green Jrnl. 6 June in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1869) X. i. 91, I went to ye raising ye New Meeting House at Col. Gardner's. 1772 M. Cutler in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) I. 38 At Robert Dodge's, at a raising. 1856 G. Davis Hist. Sketch Stockbridge & Southbridge, Mass. 174 Raisings were also considered as an affair of similar interest, followed by an entertainment of good things. 1861 Trench Comm. Ep. 7 Churches 11 Such raisings from the dead as that of the widow's son. |
d. Phonetics. Articulation (of a vowel) with the tongue closer to the roof of the mouth; an instance of this.
Cf. raise v.
1 20.
| 1874 H. Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1874 533 The short vowels do not seem to have changed much in the last few generations. The most noticeable fact is the loss of æ among the vulgar. It is modified by raising the tongue into the mid-front-wide, resulting in the familiar ceb for cæb. This anomalous raising of a short vowel is gradually spreading among the upper classes. 1909 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. i. viii. 231 The great vowel-shift consists in a general raising of all long vowels with the exception of the two high vowels. 1934 C. Davies Eng. Pronunc. 7 From the fourteenth century on this vowel [sc. ME. ǭ] underwent a gradual raising and rounding. 1957 E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunc. 1500–1700 II. 635 There are parallels enough for isolative raisings occurring in spite of, but hardly any for a combinative raising because of, a following r. 1959 A. Campbell Old Eng. Gram. 71 Just as all back vowels are subject to fronting by i-umlaut, so certain front vowels are subject to raising. 1972 M. L. Samuels Linguistic Evol. iii. 44 In ME..we find widespread new raisings to /i/. 1975 Language LI. 307 The asymmetry between front and back vowels is due to the raising of /ǣ/. |
2. Anything that is raised; a raised place.
| 1572 Huloet, Raysing, or going vp of a hyll, accliuitas. 1611 Cotgr., Condol, a ridge or raising of earth. 1658 A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. ii. xxviii. 196 The place..is hard and red, and a raising is there. 1742 Leoni Palladio's Archit. I. 64 The floor of the Chambers is raised thirteen foot from..the ground..; and below under the raising of the thirteen foot, are the Cellars. 1858 Skyring's Builder's Prices (ed. 48) 46 If raised panels, add from whence the article arises. If moulded raisings, add [etc.]. |
3. a. A crop raised.
b. Mining = get n.1 1 b.
| 1857 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. XXXVI. 755 Mr. Pease claimed it [sc. the tobacco] as his own raising and pointed to his mark to corroborate his statement. 1869 Daily News 8 Dec., Its most important ‘raisings’ are in wheat, oats, maize, tobacco, grapes, &c. 1883 Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 198. |
4. attrib. and
Comb., as
raising-cord,
raising-gin,
raising-machine,
raising-motion,
raising-tool,
raising-vat,
raising-wheel;
raising-bee (
U.S.), a gathering of neighbours to give assistance in raising the framework of a house or other building;
raising-board, a corrugated board used in raising the grain of leather (Knight
Dict. Mech. 1875);
raising-dinner (
U.S.), a dinner given at a ‘raising’;
raising-gig = gig-mill (Knight
Dict. Mech.);
raising-hammer, a hammer used in giving metal a rounded form (see
raise v. 33 d);
raising-knife (see
quots.);
† raising-pair, a framework used in mining (see
quot.);
raising-room, a room where cloth is raised.
| 1836 Backwoods of Canada 121 Neighbours who assemble at your summons to raise the walls of your house..: this is termed a ‘*raising bee’. a 1859 W. Irving Knickerb. vii. ii. (1900) 254 ‘Raising bees’ also were frequent. |
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 1230 The dots, spots, or ciphers which denote the *raising cords. |
| 1702 New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1879) XXXIII. 176 note, Provide a *Raysing Dinner for the Raysing the Schoolmasters House. |
| 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 455/2 For really fine-quality face cloths..nothing has yet been found to equal the slower and less rigorous action of the traditional west of England teazle *raising-gig. |
| 1497 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 104 Shipping crane with a *Reysing gynne. |
| 1846 Holtzapffel Turning I. 404 Figure 277 shows the narrow edge of the *raising-hammer, in the act of descending. |
| 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Green plot, They put the *Raising Knife under the Turf and raise it up. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1874/1 Raising-knife, a knife employed by coopers in setting up the staves in form for a cask. |
| 1885 Census Instruct., *Raising Machine Minder. |
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 1230 The *raising motion is effected by coupling the leaf to one end of its correspondent top lever. |
| 1747 Hooson Miner's Dict. Q iij, *Raising-Pair... The use for these is, when we begin at the Bottom of any wide Pit at the Day to Sink, we rise with these Pair upwards. |
| 1835 Ure Philos. Manuf. 203 The cloth passes several times to and from the *raising and cutting-rooms. |
| 1884 B'ham Daily Post 23 Feb. 3/5 Steel-pen Trade.—Wanted, a *Raising-Tool Maker. |
| 1852 C. Morfit Tanning & Currying (1853) 197 The last *raising-vat, which contains the strongest tan-liquor. |
| a 1824 Douglas in Trans. Highland Soc. VI. 105 The crank must revolve nearly 13 times to give the *raising-wheel one revolution. |
▪ II. ˈraising, ppl. a. [-ing2.] That raises.
| 1609 W. M. Man in Moone (1849) 20 Their followers; who, by the raising hand of their lord's assistance, have ascended many high and loftie steppes of dignity. |