- advancing, ascending, or mounting: rising smoke.
- growing or advancing to adult years: the rising generation.
- somewhat more than: The crop came to rising 6000 bushels.
- in approach of; almost; well-nigh: a lad rising sixteen.
- the act of a person or thing that rises.
- an insurrection; rebellion; revolt.
- something that rises; projection or prominence.
- a period of leavening of dough preceding baking.
- a morbid swelling, as an abscess or boil.
- a stringer supporting the thwarts of an open boat.
- an insurrection or rebellion; revolt
- the yeast or leaven used to make dough rise in baking
- increasing in rank, status, or reputation
- increasing in maturity; growing up to adulthood
- approaching the age of; nearly
