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Rise :: Rise (v.) To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction..

Cyclamen :: Cyclamen (n.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms..

Ascent :: Ascent () The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth..

Upgush :: Upgush (n.) A gushing upward.

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

Camber :: Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback..

Altitude :: Altitude (n.) Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree..

Hog :: Hog (v. i.) To become bent upward in the middle, like a hog's back; -- said of a ship broken or strained so as to have this form..

Overset :: Overset (v. t.) To turn or tip (anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building..

Skee :: Skee (n.) A long strip of wood, curved upwards in front, used on the foot for sliding..

Supinator :: Supination (n.) The act or state of lying with the face upward. Opposed to pronation.

Recurvirostral :: Recurvirostral (a.) Having the beak bent upwards.

Sheer :: Sheer (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side..

Supine :: Supine (a.) Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone..

High-sighted :: High-sighted (a.) Looking upward; supercilious.

Tail :: Tail (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

Upgaze :: Upgaze (v. i.) To gaze upward.

Caltrap :: Caltrap (n.) An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet..

Unicostate :: Unicostate (a.) Having a single rib or strong nerve running upward from the base; -- said of a leaf.

Uprush :: Uprush (n.) Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava..

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