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Rise :: Rise (v.) To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall..

Astonishment :: Astonishment (n.) The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement..

Homogeny :: Homogeny (n.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence

Reprise :: Reprise (n.) A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

Antinomy :: Antinomy (n.) A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; -- in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience..

Direction :: Direction (n.) The body of managers of a corporation or enterprise; board of directors.

Rise :: Rise (n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like..

Obreption :: Obreption (n.) The act of creeping upon with secrecy or by surprise.

Pan :: Pan (n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

Compile :: Compile (v. t.) To contain or comprise.

Riser :: Riser (n.) The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread..

Strangeness :: Strangely (adv.) In a strange manner; in a manner or degree to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully.

Proliferation :: Proliferation (n.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession..

Rhinencephalon :: Rhinencephalon (n.) The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise..

Riser :: Riser (n.) A shaft excavated from below upward.

Expedition :: Expedition (n.) An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion..

Aspire :: Aspire (v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

Trisected :: Trisected (a.) Divided into three parts or segments by incisions extending to the midrib or to the base; -- said of leaves.

Scapula :: Scapula (n.) One of the plates from which the arms of a crinoid arise.

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