Word Direct Answers

What does "rising" mean?

Rising: Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character. Among the rising theologians of Germany. Hare.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.
  2. 3.More than; exceeding; upwards of; as, a horse rising six years of age. [Colloq. & Low, U.S.]
  3. 4.The act of one who, or that which, rises (in any sense).
  4. 5.That which rises; a tumor; a boil. Lev. xiii.
  5. 6.Rising main (Waterworks), the pipe through which water from an engine is delivered to an elevated reservoir.

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