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Rose   /roʊz/   Listen
verb
Rise  v. t.  (past rose; past part. risen; pres. part. rising)  
1.
To go up; to ascend; to climb; as, to rise a hill.
2.
To cause to rise; as, to rise a fish, or cause it to come to the surface of the water; to rise a ship, or bring it above the horizon by approaching it; to raise. "Until we rose the bark we could not pretend to call it a chase."



Rose  v. t.  
1.
To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush. (Poetic) "A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty."
2.
To perfume, as with roses. (Poetic)



Rise  v. i.  (past rose; past part. risen; pres. part. rising)  
1.
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.
(b)
To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like.
(c)
To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.
(d)
To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.
(e)
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.
(f)
To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.
(g)
To leave one's bed; to arise; as, to rise early. "He that would thrive, must rise by five."
(h)
To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.
(i)
To slope upward; as, a path, a line, or surface rises in this direction. "A rising ground."
(j)
To retire; to give up a siege. "He, rising with small honor from Gunza,... was gone."
(k)
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
2.
To have the aspect or the effect of rising. Specifically:
(a)
To appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like. "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good."
(b)
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.
(c)
To become perceptible to other senses than sight; as, a noise rose on the air; odor rises from the flower.
(d)
To have a beginning; to proceed; to originate; as, rivers rise in lakes or springs. "A scepter shall rise out of Israel." "Honor and shame from no condition rise."
3.
To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. Specifically:
(a)
To increase in power or fury; said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion. "High winde... began to rise, high passions anger, hate."
(b)
To become of higher value; to increase in price. "Bullion is risen to six shillings... the ounce."
(c)
To become larger; to swell; said of a boil, tumor, and the like.
(d)
To increase in intensity; said of heat.
(e)
To become louder, or higher in pitch, as the voice.
(f)
To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations.
4.
In various figurative senses. Specifically:
(a)
To become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel. "At our heels all hell should rise With blackest insurrection." "No more shall nation against nation rise."
(b)
To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
(c)
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.
(d)
To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur. "A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures."
(e)
To come; to offer itself. "There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book."
5.
To ascend from the grave; to come to life. "But now is Christ risen from the dead."
6.
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report. "It was near nine... before the House rose."
7.
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pith; as, to rise a tone or semitone.
8.
(Print.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; said of a form.
Synonyms: To arise; mount; ascend; climb; scale. Rise, Appreciate. Some in America use the word appreciate for "rise in value;" as, stocks appreciate, money appreciates, etc. This use is not unknown in England, but it is less common there. It is undesirable, because rise sufficiently expresses the idea, and appreciate has its own distinctive meaning, which ought not to be confused with one so entirely different.



Rose  v.  Imp. of Rise.



noun
Rose  n.  
1.
A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere Note: Roses are shrubs with pinnate leaves and usually prickly stems. The flowers are large, and in the wild state have five petals of a color varying from deep pink to white, or sometimes yellow. By cultivation and hybridizing the number of petals is greatly increased and the natural perfume enhanced. In this way many distinct classes of roses have been formed, as the Banksia, Baurbon, Boursalt, China, Noisette, hybrid perpetual, etc., with multitudes of varieties in nearly every class.
2.
A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.
3.
(Arch.) A rose window. See Rose window, below.
4.
A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.
5.
(Med.) The erysipelas.
6.
The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
7.
The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
8.
A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.
Cabbage rose, China rose, etc. See under Cabbage, China, etc.
Corn rose (Bot.) See Corn poppy, under Corn.
Infantile rose (Med.), a variety of roseola.
Jamaica rose. (Bot.) See under Jamaica.
Rose acacia (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub (Robinia hispida) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms.
Rose aniline. (Chem.) Same as Rosaniline.
Rose apple (Bot.), the fruit of the tropical myrtaceous tree Eugenia Jambos. It is an edible berry an inch or more in diameter, and is said to have a very strong roselike perfume.
Rose beetle. (Zool.)
(a)
A small yellowish or buff longlegged beetle (Macrodactylus subspinosus), which eats the leaves of various plants, and is often very injurious to rosebushes, apple trees, grapevines, etc. Called also rose bug, and rose chafer.
(b)
The European chafer.
Rose bug. (Zool.) same as Rose beetle, Rose chafer.
Rose burner, a kind of gas-burner producing a rose-shaped flame.
Rose camphor (Chem.), a solid odorless substance which separates from rose oil.
Rose campion. (Bot.) See under Campion.
Rose catarrh (Med.), rose cold.
Rose chafer. (Zool.)
(a)
A common European beetle (Cetonia aurata) which is often very injurious to rosebushes; called also rose beetle, and rose fly.
(b)
The rose beetle (a).
Rose cold (Med.), a variety of hay fever, sometimes attributed to the inhalation of the effluvia of roses. See Hay fever, under Hay.
Rose color, the color of a rose; pink; hence, a beautiful hue or appearance; fancied beauty, attractiveness, or promise.
Rose de Pompadour, Rose du Barry, names succesively given to a delicate rose color used on Sèvres porcelain.
Rose diamond, a diamond, one side of which is flat, and the other cut into twenty-four triangular facets in two ranges which form a convex face pointed at the top. Cf. Brilliant, n.
Rose ear. See under Ear.
Rose elder (Bot.), the Guelder-rose.
Rose engine, a machine, or an appendage to a turning lathe, by which a surface or wood, metal, etc., is engraved with a variety of curved lines.
Rose family (Bot.) the Roseceae. See Rosaceous.
Rose fever (Med.), rose cold.
Rose fly (Zool.), a rose betle, or rose chafer.
Rose gall (Zool.), any gall found on rosebushes. See Bedeguar.
Rose knot, a ribbon, or other pliade band plaited so as to resemble a rose; a rosette.
Rose lake, Rose madder, a rich tint prepared from lac and madder precipitated on an earthy basis.
Rose mallow. (Bot.)
(a)
A name of several malvaceous plants of the genus Hibiscus, with large rose-colored flowers.
(b)
the hollyhock.
Rose nail, a nail with a convex, faceted head.
Rose noble, an ancient English gold coin, stamped with the figure of a rose, first struck in the reign of Edward III., and current at 6s. 8d.
Rose of China. (Bot.) See China rose (b), under China.
Rose of Jericho (Bot.), a Syrian cruciferous plant (Anastatica Hierochuntica) which rolls up when dry, and expands again when moistened; called also resurrection plant.
Rose of Sharon (Bot.), an ornamental malvaceous shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus). In the Bible the name is used for some flower not yet identified, perhaps a Narcissus, or possibly the great lotus flower.
Rose oil (Chem.), the yellow essential oil extracted from various species of rose blossoms, and forming the chief part of attar of roses.
Rose pink, a pigment of a rose color, made by dyeing chalk or whiting with a decoction of Brazil wood and alum; also, the color of the pigment.
Rose quartz (Min.), a variety of quartz which is rose-red.
Rose rash. (Med.) Same as Roseola.
Rose slug (Zool.), the small green larva of a black sawfly (Selandria rosae). These larvae feed in groups on the parenchyma of the leaves of rosebushes, and are often abundant and very destructive.
Rose window (Arch.), a circular window filled with ornamental tracery. Called also Catherine wheel, and marigold window. Cf. wheel window, under Wheel.
Summer rose (Med.), a variety of roseola. See Roseola.
Under the rose, in secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure; the rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and hung up at entertainments as a token that nothing there said was to be divulged.
Wars of the Roses (Eng. Hist.), feuds between the Houses of York and Lancaster, the white rose being the badge of the House of York, and the red rose of the House of Lancaster.






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... whipped off the red silk handkerchief about his neck, carefully wiped the eye and object glasses of his binocular and his own tired old eyes and, once more prone on his stomach, gazed again; then twisted the screw a trifle as though to get a better focus; gazed still another time; lowered the glass; rose to his knees, his eyes gleaming brilliantly and his teeth setting hard; once more levelled the glass and looked with all his soul in his eyes and then slowly let the faithful binocular fall to the blanket by his side as ...
— Sunset Pass - or Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land • Charles King

... her applause, sensitive under his failures, cool in difficulties, yielding instantly the slightest advantage to him, holding her fire when singles rose or where there could be the slightest doubt—that was his shooting companion under the white noon sun that day. He noticed, too, her sweetness with the dogs, her quick encouragement when work was well done, her brief rebuke when the red dog, ...
— The Firing Line • Robert W. Chambers

... in the socket, and the whole party stepped out into the churchyard. The moon was shining within a day or two of full, and just overlooked the three or four vast yews that stood on the south-east side of the church, and rose in unvaried and flat darkness against the illuminated atmosphere ...
— Desperate Remedies • Thomas Hardy

... upon a little hill rang out a bell—a deep-toned bell, bought by the parish years before for the missions held at this very spot. Every day it rang for an instant at the beginning of each of the five acts. It also tolled slowly when the curtain rose upon the scene of the Crucifixion. In this act no one spoke save the abased Magdalene, who knelt at the foot of the cross, and on whose hair red drops fell when the Roman soldier pierced the side of ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... but merely to this limited extent, that what is going on around him at present, in his own narrow sphere of observation, will go on in like manner in future. The peasant believes that the sun which rose to-day will rise again to-morrow; that the seed put into the ground will be followed in due time by the harvest this year as it was last year, and the like; but has no notion of such inferences in subjects beyond his immediate observation. And it should be observed that each class of ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill


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