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Rise :: Rise (v.) 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..

Rise :: Rise (n.) Increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.

Life :: Life (n.) That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise..

Camisado :: Camisado (n.) An attack by surprise by soldiers wearing the camisado.

Taenioidea :: Taenioidea (n. pl.) The division of cestode worms which comprises the tapeworms. See Tapeworm.

Commencement :: Commencement (n.) The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

Levant :: Levant (a.) Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant..

Obreptitious :: Obreptitious (a.) Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth..

Figurehead :: Figurehead (n.) A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief..

Triserial :: Triserial (a.) Alt. of Triseriat.

Prise :: Prise (n.) An enterprise.

Heroic :: Heroic (a.) Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet..

Rise :: Rise (n.) The distance through which anything rises; as, the rise of the thermometer was ten degrees; the rise of the river was six feet; the rise of an arch or of a step..

Gonad :: Gonad (n.) One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland..

Arduous :: Arduous (a.) Attended with great labor, like the ascending of acclivities; difficult; laborious; as, an arduous employment, task, or enterprise..

Updive :: Updive (v. i.) To spring upward; to rise.

Aware :: Aware (a.) Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs..

Resurgent :: Resurgent (n.) One who rises again, as from the dead..

Homogeny :: Homogeny (n.) The correspondence of common descent; -- a term used to supersede homology by Lankester, who also used homoplasy to denote any superinduced correspondence of position and structure in parts embryonically distinct (other writers using the term homoplasmy). Thus, there is homogeny between the fore limb of a mammal and the wing of a bird; but the right and left ventricles of the heart in both are only in homoplasy with each other, these having arisen independently since the divergence

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