| • | 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. |
| • | To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like. |
| • | To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air. |
| • | To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet. |
| • | To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer. |
| • | To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall. |
| • | To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. |
| • | To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea. |
| • | To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. |
| • | To retire; to give up a siege. |
| • | To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like. |
| • | To have the aspect or the effect of rising. |
| • | To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like. |
| • | To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore. |
| • | To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower. |
| • | To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs. |
| • | To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. |
| • | To increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion. |
| • | To become of higher value; to increase in price. |
| • | To become larger; to swell; -- said of a boil, tumor, and the like. |
| • | To increase in intensity; -- said of heat. |
| • | To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice. |
| • | To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations. |
| • | In various figurative senses. |
| • | To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. |
| • | To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. |
| • | To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; -- said of style, thought, or discourse; as, to rise in force of expression; to rise in eloquence; a story rises in interest. |
| • | To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. |
| • | To come; to offer itself. |
| • | To ascend from the grave; to come to life. |
| • | To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report. |
| • | To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone. |
| • | To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form. |
| • | The act of rising, or the state of being risen. |
| • | The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step. |
| • | Land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land. |
| • | Spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream. |
| • | Appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet. |
| • | Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like. |
| • | Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice. |
| • | Elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone. |
| • | The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water. |
