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 height; 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.-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.-to retire; to give up a siege.-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.-to appear above the horizont, as the sun, moon, stars, and the like.-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.-to increase in size, force, or value; to proceed toward a climax.-to increase in power or fury; -- said of wind or a storm, and hence, of passion.-to become of higher value; to increase in price.-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.-to become excited, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.-to attain to a better social position; to be promoted; to excel; to succeed.-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.-to come; to offer itself.-to ascend from the grave; to come to life.-to terminate an official sitting; to adjourn; as, the committee rose after agreeing to the report.-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.-the act of rising, or the state of being risen.-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.-land which is somewhat higher than the rest; as, the house stood on a rise of land.-spring; source; origin; as, the rise of a stream.-appearance above the horizon; as, the rise of the sun or of a planet.-increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like.-increase of sound; a swelling of the voice.-elevation or ascent of the voice; upward change of key; as, a rise of a tone or semitone.-the spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.