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 heght; 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. He that would thrive, must rise by five. Old Proverb. 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. "A rising ground." Dryden. To retire; to give up a siege. He, rising with small honor from Gunza, . . . was gone. Knolles. 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. Specifically: -- 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." Matt. v. 45. 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. A scepter shall rise out of Israel. Num. xxiv. 17. Honor and shame from no condition rise. Pope. To increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax. Specifically: -- 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." Milton. To become of higher value; to increase in price. Bullion is risen to six shillings . . . the ounce. Locke. 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. Specifically: -- 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. Milton. No more shall nation against nation rise. Pope. To attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. Shak. 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. A thought rose in me, which often perplexes men of contemplative natures. Spectator. To come; to offer itself. There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book. Spenser. To ascend from the grave; to come to life. But now is Christ risen from the dead. 1. Cor. xv. 20. To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report. It was near nine . . . before the House rose. Macaulay. 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.