RISE, RISING
ADJECTIVES
► ACCLIVE rising with a slope; sloping upward; ascending → 1697 obs.
► ACCLIVITOUS rising with a slope; sloping upward; ascending → 1815
► ACCLIVOUS rising with a slope; sloping upwards; steep → 1731
NOUNS
► RAISEMENT an advance, increase, rise → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► BUSK to get up, to rise → 1390 obs.
► HEAVE to rise, to mount, to come up, to spring up → c1325 obs.
► HEAVE AND SET to rise and fall, as a floating object upon the waves → 1509
► HOVE to rise; to swell up → 1590 obs.
► NAUNTLE to raise, to rear; to elevate; to rise up → 1820 Eng. dial.
► RELEVATE to rise up → 1661 obs.
► RISE LIKE A ROCKET to rise suddenly and dramatically → 1855
► RISE LIKE A ROCKET AND FALL LIKE A STICK to rise suddenly and dramatically and subsequently fall equally suddenly → 1855
► RISE WITH THE LARK to rise from bed very early in the morning → 1580
► TAPER to rise or shoot up like a flame, spire, or pyramid; to rise or mount up continuously in honour, dignity, rank, etc. → 1589 obs.
► YERK to spring or rise suddenly; esp. of animals → 1611 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
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