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#NAME? :: Stepstone (n.) A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.

Peak :: Peak (v. i.) To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak..

Worse :: Worse (n.) That which is worse; something less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise..

Rule :: Rule (a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock..

Unmorrised :: Unmorrised (a.) Not arrayed in the dress of a morris dancer.

Pharisee :: Pharisee (n.) One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews..

Riser :: Riser (n.) Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like..

Ascend :: Ascend (v. i.) To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises..

Ascend :: Ascend (v. i.) To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor..

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..

Surprise :: Surprise (n.) To strike with wonder, astonishment, or confusion, by something sudden, unexpected, or remarkable; to confound; as, his conduct surprised me..

Post :: Post (v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting..

Alarm :: Alarm (n.) Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise..

Entrepreneur :: Entrepreneur (n.) One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed.

Parvenu :: Parvenu (n.) An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.

Watermark :: Watermark (n.) A mark indicating the height to which water has risen, or at which it has stood; the usual limit of high or low water..

University :: University (n.) An institution organized and incorporated for the purpose of imparting instruction, examining students, and otherwise promoting education in the higher branches of literature, science, art, etc., empowered to confer degrees in the several arts and faculties, as in theology, law, medicine, music, etc. A university may exist without having any college connected with it, or it may consist of but one college, or it may comprise an assemblage of colleges established in any place, with

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

Overmount :: Overmount (v. t.) To mount over; to go higher than; to rise above.

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