▪ I. rising, vbl. n.
(ˈraɪzɪŋ)
[f. rise v.]
I. 1. Resurrection. More fully rising again, or rising from the dead.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 81 He hem shewede fortocne bi ionan þe prophete..of his riseng. a 1300 Cursor M. 17288 + 10 Ded men ros of þer graues..and honoured his rising. c 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 3976 Þe thred es of þe rysyng generale Of alle men, bathe grete and smale. 1382 Wyclif Matt. xxii. 23 Saducees, that seyen there is no rysyng aȝein. c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun (Roxb.) 118 His deth and his rysing told he thaym or he went. 1509 Fisher 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. 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 198, I hope and trust vpon the rising of the flesh. 1652 Gataker Antinom. 5 His rising from the ded. 1833 Tennyson 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.
| c 1400 Rom. Rose 3821 He awakid Ielousy; Which, al afrayed in his rysing [etc.]. 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 22965, I kepe the howres off rysynge, To do worschipe vnto the kynge. 1513 More Rich. III, Wks. 41/2 At their rising in the dawnynge of the day. 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, iii. vii. 34 From the rising of the Larke to the lodging of the Lambe. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 21 Fearing what might happen to me on the rising up of his wife. 1784 Cowper Tiroc. 765 Where early rest makes early rising sure. 1829 Lytton Disowned i. iii, My good wife only waits your rising to have all ready for breakfast. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 506 His house at Kensington was sometimes thronged, at his hour of rising, by more than two hundred suitors. |
| attrib. c 1820 Rogers Italy (1839) 74 Ministers from distant Courts Beset his doors, long ere his rising-hour. 1896 A. Austin England's Darling ii. i, Ten score ambers have been lodged in the King's Barn, since rising-time. |
† b. A levee.
Obs.| 1720 Mrs. Manley Power of Love (1741) I. 136 Signior Galen..should go next Morning to the Duke's Rising. c 1729 Earl 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.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 435/1 Rysynge vp fro sete, or restynge place, surrexio, resurrectio. Ibid., Rysynge a-ȝene persone, for worschyppe, assurrexio. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 145 b, That rysyng & sekyng in the narowe lanes signifyeth y⊇ exercyse of vertues. 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 248 He to whome all men ought in rising to reuerence. 1667 Milton P.L. ii. 476 Thir rising all at once was as the sound Of Thunder heard remote. 1711 Addison Spect. No. 12 ¶2, I was troubled with the Civility of their rising up to me every time I came into the Room. 1847 C. Brontë J. Eyre xvii, A soft sound of rising now became audible. 1869 Boutell 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. a 1300 Cursor M. 27048 Quen þai vn-mesurli ar radd Efter rising to fall egain. 1382 Wyclif Luke ii. 34 This is put in to the fallinge and in to the rysinge aȝen of many men in Israel. 1667 Milton 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.
| 1700 Pennsylv. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 21 After the rising of this assembly, he determines to send the laws to England. 1740 C'tess of Hertford Lett. I. lv. 234 The rising of the parliament has very much emptied the town. 1825 Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 10 On the rising of the House..I happened to find myself near Governor W. Livingston. 1837 Lockhart Scott IV. iii. 80 Upon the rising of the Court in July, he made an excursion to the Lennox. a 1849 W. 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.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. xxiv. (Bodl. MS.), In þe euetide for rising of enemyes and of þeeues..wecches and wardis beþ ikepte. c 1420 Brut (Caxton, 1482) 317 In this same yere..ther were many heretykes and lollardes that had purposed to haue made a rysyng. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 435/1 Rysynge a-ȝen pees, insurrexio, rebellio. 1600 E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 148 To assure themselues against the rising of the people. 1655 Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 343 Some lettres speake of an vniuersall risinge, and that London is vnquiett. 1722 in Payne Eng. Cath. (1889) 9 Prisoners on account of the unhappy Rising. 1761 Hume Hist. Eng. III. lxi. 326 A conspiracy was entered into..and a day of general rising appointed. 1816 Scott Old Mort. xxxvi, Do you think that the rising upon that occasion was rebellion or not? 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 328 There he held some communication with the Macdonalds and Camerons about a rising. 1874 Green 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.
| 1600 J. 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. 1633 T. 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. 1867 D. 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.
| a 1340 Hampole Psalter xlix. 2 Fra þe risynge of þe sone til þe west, of syon þe shape of his fairhede. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxv. (Bodl. MS.), Þe furste..harueste & gaderinge þereof is aboute þe risinge of þe sterre Canis. c 1440 Astron. Cal. (MS. Ashm. 391), Þe forseid nombres in Reed ye shul vnderstonde for þe risyng of þe sonne and of þe moone. 1535 Coverdale Job iii. 9 Let it loke for light, but let it se none, nether the rysynge vp of the fayre mornynge. 1570 Dee Math. Pref. b iij, To learne the Risinges and Settinges of Sterres. 1611 Bible Num. ii. 3 On the East side toward the rising of the Sunne. 1667 Milton P.L. iv. 641 Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet. 1719 De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 380 Pointing to the setting of the Sun, and then to the rising. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 70 On the rising of the day I saw a large town before me. 1828 Moore Pract. Navig. 172 Which is to be counted from the east towards the north, because it is at the sun's rising. 1846 Joyce's Sci. Dial. xvii. 109 That the moon loses more time in her risings [etc.]. |
6. † a. The source of a river.
Obs.—1| 1398 Trevisa 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.
| 1848 Dickens 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.
| 1458 in Turner Dom. Archit. (1859) III. i. 42 They reysid up the archeys be gemeotre in rysyng. 1593 Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. iv. 22 For this I draw in many a teare, And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighes. 1608 Willet Hexapla Exod. 113 Not..before winter..but toward the rising of the yeere. 1614 W. B. Philosopher's Banquet (ed. 2) 41 It will procure vnto them the rising of the Splene. 1642 R. Brooke Eng. Epis. 116 At the first Rising out of Popery, the Churchlesse Church of the Albigenses..began an admirable Reformation. 1712 Budgell Spect. No. 277 ¶17 The various Leanings and Bendings of the Head, the Risings of the Bosom. 1768 Goldsm. Good-n. Man iv, Then let us reserve our distress till the rising of the curtain. 1820 W. Scoresby Acc. Arc. Regions I. 375 The rising of the mercury usually precedes the cessation of a storm. 1865 J. Fergusson Hist. Arch. I. 214 The only danger to be feared [in domes] is what is technically called a rising of the haunches. |
| attrib. 1688 Holme 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.| 1660 J. H. tr. Basil. Valent. Chariot Antim. 94 The best Treasure for allaying the Risings of the Matrix. 1665 M. N. Med. Medicinæ 48 Another Disease which the people term the Rising of the Lights. 1731 Gentl. Mag. I. (last page), The Diseases and Casualties this Year... Rising of the lights 37. 1759 Brown Compl. Farmer 12 For the rising of the Lights. Take four ounces of turmerick in a quart of small beer. 1772 W. 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. 1845 M{supc}Culloch 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. 1894 N. & 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.
| 1694 Motteux Rabelais v. xxiv. (1737) 105 Coupés, Hops, Leadings, Risings. 1765 Foote 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.
| 1726–46 Thomson Winter 599 If doom'd..to repress These ardent risings of the kindling soul. 1766 Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. vii. 286 It is difficult to repress the risings of indignation. 1852 Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. ix, Gulping down..resolutely some kind of rising in his throat, and turning..round. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola xxvi, With a new rising of dislike to a wife who..might have the power of thwarting him. 1874 Carpenter 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.
| 1595 Shakes. John i. i. 216 Yet to auoid deceit I meane to learne; For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising. 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. 325 The most miserable state of Rome citie under Maximinus the Præfect, whose parentage and rising is described. 1671 Milton P.R. iii. 201 Know'st thou not that my rising is thy fall, And my promotion will be thy destruction? 1712 Steele Spect. No. 497 ¶1 Till the Order of Battel made way for his rising in the Troops. 1810 Lamb in Ainger Life (1882) 91 To give..some idea of the difference of rank and gradual rising I have made a little scale. 1863 Sat. Rev. 19 Sept. 383 There would be no rising in the world, no new blood, no fresh source of life and strength in society. 1942 W. 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.
| 1555 Eden Decades (Arb.) 45 Of the rysynge & faulynge of owre Ocean Sea. 1705 Addison Italy 436 Forc'd to pay an unreasonable Exaction at every Ferry upon the least Rising of the Waters. 1797 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XIII. 68/1 The connection of this celestial sign [the dog-star] with the annual rising of the river. 1865 Kingsley 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.
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 320 This accident, called the rising of the copper, hinders it from being laminated. 1884 Science 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.
| 1597 T. 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. 1674 Playford'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. 1730 Treat. 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. 1797 Encycl. 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.
| 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 29 Where wheate hath a clift, there hath it a rising. 1607 Topsell 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. 1687 A. 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. 1730 A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 265 On the Border of the Wall there was a Rising..which served by way of Ornament and Fence. 1763 Phil. Trans. LIII. 171 On each side of the back there are two considerable sharp edged risings. 1774 Goldsm. 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.| 1563 T. 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. 1606 Holland Sueton. 74 Certaine hard risings of thicke brawnie skinne. a 1660 Hammond Serm. iv. I. (1850) 53 To prick the rising, and let out the putrid humour. 1834 W. Sewall Diary 7 Dec. (1930) 160/1 Laid up with a bad rising on my hand. 1847 Halliw., Rising, a small abscess, or boil. West. 1867 A. D. Richardson Beyond Mississippi xi. 133 He spoke of a swelling upon his knee as a ‘rising’. 1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xix. 236 None of us ain't got risin's. 1949 T. Capote Other Voices v. 104, I had me a rising on my butt big as a baseball. 1972 E. 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.
| 1565 Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Cliuus, Mollis cliuus, an easie rysinge of the hyll. 1591 Shakes. Two Gent. v. ii. 46 But mount you presently, and meete with me Vpon the rising of the Mountaine foote That leads toward Mantua. c 1630 Risdon Surv. Devon §46 (1810) 53 Richard Duke..built a..house upon the rising over the river. 1679 Lond. Gaz. No. 1420/3 In the mean time my Lord General..drew up upon the Rising. 1717 Berkeley Tour Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 556 Nothing more than gentle hills or risings. 1782 Pennant Journ. Chest. to Lond. 100 The situation is delightful.., with small risings on almost every side. 1836 F. Sykes Scraps fr. Jrnl. 99 Houses here and there peeping forth from risings. 1891 Daily News 23 Oct. 5/7 On the small risings and strips of still uncovered grass. |
b. Gradual or direct increase in elevation.
| 1684 R. H. Sch. Recreat. 83 Observe..the Risings, Fallings, and Advantages of the Places where you Bowl. 1712 J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 21 Gardens have no Risings, nor Fallings. 1725 W. Halfpenny Sound Building 28 The Risings or Heighths of the Steps. 1771 Encycl. 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.)
| 1855 J. 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.)
| 1627 Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 6 Also the halfe Decke and quarter Decke, whereon the beames and timbers beare are called risings. c 1635 N. 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. 1664 E. Bushnell Shipwright 21 Take off all the Risings, and mark them on the Rising Staffe. 1827 Roberts Voy. Centr. Amer. 178 Their risings consist of two planks from 16 to 18 inches broad. c 1850 Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 142 The Rising of Boats is a narrow strake of board fastened within side to support the thwarts. |
| Comb. 1664 Rising staff [see above]. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Tablette, the rising-staff; a form, or scale, used by shipwrights when erecting the frames of the timbers. c 1850 Rudim. 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.
| 1552 in 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.).
| 1594 Lyly Mother Bombie ii. i. 117 My wits worke like barme, alias yest, alias sizing, alias rising, alias Gods good. 1668 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 331 Rising, Yeast or Barm, so called from the manner of its rising above the Ale or Beer. 1836 Backwoods of Canada 184 She must know how to manufacture hop-rising or salt-rising for leavening her bread. 1865 Mrs. Stowe House & Home Papers 236 Salt-rising bread. 1875– in dial. glossaries (Yorkshire, Norfolk, Surrey, Sussex). 1882 G. 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’. 1933 Sun (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. 1960 J. J. Rowlands Spindrift 172 The meat..was flanked by plates of moist and closely knit salt-rising bread. 1973 L. 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.
▪ II. rising, ppl. a. (
ˈraɪzɪŋ)
[f. rise v.] 1. a. Having an upward slope or lie; elevated above the surrounding or adjacent level.
| 1548 Patten Exped. Scotl. E iv, Nie to a church..stondynge vpon a mean risyng hill sumwhat higher then the site of their campe. 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 260 They..hale it to some rising hill without. 1677 Hubbard 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. 1683 Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xiii. ¶3 File off the rising side of the Punch, which brings the Face to an exact Level. 1730 A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 266 This rising Place projected from the Wall. 1742 Leoni Palladio's Archit. I. 81 The Way..was a little rising in the middle, that no Water might stay upon it. 1793 Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v. Assurgens, Rising up in a curve... A rising petiole,—rising leaves. 1807 Gass Jrnl. 41 Passed handsome rising prairies on the north side. 1826 A. Butler Fragments 147 Dost thou not see Another king..Pursue that rising road? |
b. esp. rising ground. (Freq. hyphened.)
| 1617 Moryson Itin. ii. 272 A rising grounde lying betweene the Campe and the Castle. 1686 tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 68 The Castle upon the South Side stands upon a Rising Ground. 1736 Drake Eboracum 167 This being a rising ground the prince sent a party to dislodge them. 1781 Cowper Hope 46 The yellow tilth, green meads, rocks, rising grounds. 1839 Thirlwall Greece IV. 423 An exhausted remnant..at length reached a rising ground. 1867 Howells Ital. Journ. 189 Our horses were brought to a stand on a rising ground. |
† c. Of the nose: Turned up, snub.
Obs.| 1709 Lond. 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.
| 1596 Shakes. 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. 1667 Milton P.L. ix. 75 And with it rose Satan involv'd in rising Mist. 1726–46 Thomson Winter 2 See, Winter comes,..Sullen, and sad, with all his rising train: Vapours, and Clouds, and Storms. 1754 Gray Poesy 40 O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom. 1860 Merc. Mar. Mag. VII. 339 A gradually rising glass foretells improving weather if the thermometer falls. 1876 Freeman 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.| 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 442 With a roaring sound The rising Rivers float the nether Ground. 1781 Cowper Retirem. 532 The rising waves..Thunder and flash upon the stedfast shores. 1817 Shelley Rev. Islam xi. x, As on a foam-girt crag some seaman tossed Stares at the rising tide. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 174 He would stem the rising tide of revolution. |
c. Starting or springing up.
| 1728 Pope 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).
| 1610 Shakes. 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. 1667 Milton P.L. iii. 551 Spires and Pinnacles..Which now the Rising Sun guilds with his beams. 1709 E. Singer Love & Friendship i, While..rising Night the Ev'ning Shade extends. 1794 Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xv, The rising moon threw a shadowy light upon the terrace. 1816 Scott Old Mort. xliii, The beams of the rising sun, which glanced on the first broken waves of the fall. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. v. 39 The moon..turned a pale face towards the rising day. 1896 A. E. Housman Shropshire Lad xliv, Right you guessed the rising morrow. |
4. a. Increasing in degree, force, or intensity; advancing, growing.
| 1603 Knolles 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. 1703 Rowe Fair Penit. i. i, A rising storm of Passion shook her Breast. 1703 ― Ulysses iv. i, Long I strove with rising Indignation. 1742 Gray Propertius ii. 23 Riseing winds the face of Ocean sweep. 1808 Scott Marm. i. xvi, Lord Marmion..With pain his rising wrath suppress'd. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 341 The rising importance of Leeds had attracted the notice of successive governments. 1885 Truth 28 May 848/2 The poplars are bent by the rising wind. |
b. Advancing in fortune, influence, or dignity.
| 1631 R. 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. 1672 Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 64 They that perceived he was a Rising-man and of pleasant Conversation. 1709 Steele Tatler No. 61 ¶15 'Tis natural for distant Relations to claim Kindred with a rising Family. 1761 Hume Hist. Eng. xxvii. II. 127 Thenceforward he was looked on at court as a rising man. 1835 A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara (ed. 2) III. 265 He is..the most rising man in the Cabool dominions. 1863 Trevelyan Compet. Wallah (1866) 119, I know of no better company in the world than a rising civilian. 1889 Jessopp 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.
| 1674 Campion Music 22 By rule, instead of the rising third, it should fall into the eight. 1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 656/1 The rising tone gives to the voice somewhat of the effect of an interrogation. 1879 E. Prout Harmony xi, The very rare reverse case.., the falling second and rising third. 1881 G. 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. 1894 H. 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. 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 VII. 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. 1973 Archivum 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.
| 1667 Milton P.L. vii. 102 To heare thee tell His Generation, and the rising Birth Of Nature. 1697 Dryden Virg. Past. iv. 27 His Cradle shall with rising Flow'rs be crown'd. 1712 Addison Spect. No. 523 ¶1, I am always highly delighted with the discovery of any rising Genius among my Countrymen. 1750 Johnson Rambler No. 77 ¶14 The hopes of the rising generation. 1781 J. Moore View Soc. It. (1790) I. vii. 75 The rising vigour of Venice was permitted to grow. 1822 R. G. Wallace 15 Yrs. in India 323 All the villages..appeared in a flourishing condition, with a numerous rising generation. 1870 Conway 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.
| 1825 J. 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. |
| 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. |
| 1833 Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1457 When the second description of *rising cupboard is used, it is necessary to have one for each floor. |
| 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 (ed. 2) 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. |
| 1846 A. 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. |
| 1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 42 The *rising front is most useful when taking views uphill. |
| 1807 Trans. Soc. Arts XXVI. 196 It obviates the necessity of screw *rising hinges. |
| 1838 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 189/2 Four pipes or *rising⁓mains, the lower end of each being connected with a valve⁓box. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 727/2 Rising mains, in an electrical installation, a mains circuit which runs from one floor of a building to another. 1967 G. A. T. Burdett Electr. Installations 37 Where conditions allow there are advantages in using purpose-made rising mains. |
| a 1890 M. & 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. |
| c 1850 Rudim. 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. |
| 1626 Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Seamen 10 The flowre, the sleepers, *rising timbers, garble strake, her rake, the fore reach. c 1635 N. 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. |
| 1752 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Ship (plate) 60 The *rising or Dead Wood. c 1850 Rudim. 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.
| 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xx. 231 He beareth Azure, three Bustards rising, Or. 1688 Holme Armoury ii. 478/2 A Stork surgiant... This is by some termed a Stork rising, as having its Wings disclosed..and preparing for flight. 1868 Cussans 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).
| 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (1792) IV. 23 By virtue of the same oath, [the horse was] four years old, rising five. 1789 C. Smith Ethelinde (1814) V. 50 Before next grass, when you'll be rising twenty,..you'll make a match with Davenant. 1810 Sporting 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. 1863 Reade Hard Cash I. 11 Young Hardie, rising twenty-one, thought nothing human worthy of reverence, but Intellect. |
b. Similarly with
to.
rare.
| 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts II. 82 Two bulls rising to three years old. |
3. U.S. a. Fully as much as; rather more than.
| 1837 W. Jenkins Ohio Gazetteer 64 It enjoys a yearly income of rising $4,500. 1848 Bartlett Dict. Amer. (1859) 367 James Smithson bequeathed to the United States rising half a million of dollars. 1894 Winsor 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. 1895 Outing XXVII. 254/2 The enclosure contains something rising forty acres. |
b. Upwards
of, in excess
of.
| 1817 Paulding Lett. fr. South II. 121 ‘How much wheat did you raise this year?’ ‘A little rising of five thousand bushels.’ 1848 Bartlett 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.| 1975 Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xx. 293 One of the most profitable achievements was to build up a pre-reception class for rising-5s. 1976 Milton Keynes Express 18 June 4/4, I would like this opportunity to..make absolutely clear the teachers' position concerning the ‘rising fives’. 1986 Ideal Home Sept. 103/4 In many areas, rising-fives are freely admitted to the local infant school. 1987 News Let. Friends of Girls' Public Day School Trust 19 The Junior Department thrives. There is a waiting list for our new rising five class. 1989 Church Times 27 Jan. 12/4 Has he been ‘into’ plainsong since he was a ‘rising five’? |