Definition of rise

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Rise (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait..

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Comprise :: Comprise (v. t.) To comprehend; to include.
Pivot :: Pivot (n.) Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise..
Top :: Top (v. i.) To excel; to rise above others.
Dawn :: Dawn (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.
Risen :: Risen () p. p. & a. from Rise.
Gastrula :: Gastrula (n.) An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula (the blastosphere) on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth (the blastopore) which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by the inner wall (the hypoblast). See Illust. under Invagination. In a more general sense, an ideal stage in embryonic development. See Gastraea..
Emprise :: Emprise (n.) The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits.
Circumflex :: Circumflex (n.) A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2..
Chevaux-de-frise :: Chevaux-de-frise (pl. ) of Cheval-de-fris.
Rise :: Rise (n.) Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet..
Rise :: Rise (n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet..
Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises..
Rise :: Rise (n.) Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream..
Top :: Top (v. t.) To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report..
Gloppen :: Gloppen (v. t. & i.) To surprise or astonish; to be startled or astonished.
Bockland :: Bockland (n.) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds..
Karreo :: Karreo (n.) One of the dry table-lands of South Africa, which often rise terracelike to considerable elevations..
Obreption :: Obreption (n.) The obtaining gifts of escheat by fraud or surprise.
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