rising
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rising/ˈrʌɪzɪŋ/
▶adjective
- 1 approaching a specified age.
- 2 [postpos.] Heraldry (of a bird) depicted with the wings open but not fully displayed, as if preparing for flight.
'rising' also found in these Oxford entries:
alpenglow
- amplitude
- ascendant
- ascension
- ascent
- atrium
- broach spire
- bubble
- bullish
- bull market
- bump
- damp course
- dextral
- dip
- dog days
- eminence
- false dawn
- heliacal
- hummock
- in
- inselberg
- insurgent
- issuant
- kicking strap
- Levant
- levee
- level
- lilt
- links
- lively
- lynchet
- monadnock
- moonrise
- mountain
- orient
- overheat
- plume
- react
- resurrection
- ripple
- rise
- rising damp
- rising sign
- seal
- self-rising flour
- sing-song
- sinistral
- Sothic
- stalagmite
