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Rise :: Rise (v.) To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower..

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

Ringleader :: Ringleader (n.) Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report..

University :: University (n.) An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with

Head :: Head (n.) A rounded mass of foam which rises on a pot of beer or other effervescing liquor.

Start :: Start (n.) The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion..

Upwhirl :: Upwhirl (v. t. & i.) To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.

Hero :: Hero (n.) A man of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering; a prominent or central personage in any remarkable action or event; hence, a great or illustrious person..

Amazedness :: Amazedness (n.) The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder..

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..

Ascend :: Ascend (v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor..

Ambush :: Ambush (v. t.) The troops posted in a concealed place, for attacking by surprise; liers in wait..

Soot :: Soot (n.) A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke..

Reprize :: Reprize (v. t.) See Reprise.

Proverbial :: Proverbial (a.) Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial..

Phariseeism :: Phariseeism (n.) See Pharisaism.

Humph :: Humph (interj.) An exclamation denoting surprise, or contempt, doubt, etc..

Apprise :: Apprise (v. t.) To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done..

Enterocoele :: Enterocoele (n.) A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth or outgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from a schizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of the embryo..

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