RI'SING, ppr. 1. Getting up; ascending; mounting; springing; proceeding from; advancing; swelling; increasing; appearing above the horizon; reviving from death, &c.2. Increasing in wealth, power or distinction; as a rising state; a rising character.RI'SING, n. 1. The act of getting up from any recumbent or sitting posture.2. The act of ascending; as the rising of vapor.3. The act of closing a session, as of a public body; as the rising of the legislature.4. The appearance of the sun or a star above the horizon.5. The act of reviving from the dead; resurrection. Mark 9. 6. A tumor on the body. Lev. 13.7. An assembling in opposition to government; insurrection; sedition or mutiny.
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