Word Meanings - UPRISING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent. "The steep uprising of the hill." Shak. 2. An insurrection; a popular revolt. J. P. Peters.
Related words: (words related to UPRISING)
- RIS
A bough or branch; a twig. As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer. - POPULARIZATION
The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - RISIBLE
1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More. 2. Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities." - ASCENT
1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - RISQUE; RISQUEE
Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin. - STEEP
Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer. - RIST
3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth. Chaucer. - INSURRECTIONIST
One who favors, or takes part in, insurrection; an insurgent. - PETERSHAM
A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material. - STEEPLE
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles - STEEPLY
In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity. - RISEN
1. p. p. & a. from Rise. "Her risen Son and Lord." Keble. 2. Obs. imp. pl. of Rise. Chaucer. - STEEP-DOWN
Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak. - UPRISING
1. Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent. "The steep uprising of the hill." Shak. 2. An insurrection; a popular revolt. J. P. Peters. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - POPULAR
1. Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections. "Popular states." Bacon. "So the popular vote inclines." Milton. The commonly held in - HORRISONOUS
Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey. - ENTERPRISER
One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward. - TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv. - GRISLY
Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible, - GRISTMILL
A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - SPAGYRIST
1. A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. 2. One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit. - LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church. - METAPHORIST
One who makes metaphors. - ARTILLERIST
A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman. - TANTRISM
The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n. - PERISTALSIS
Peristaltic contraction or action. - IMPARISYLLABIC
Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis. - PURISM
Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly - PORISMATIC; PORISMATICAL
Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic. - PANDARISM
See SWIFT - GRIST
1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q. 2. Supply; provision. Swift. 3. In rope making, a given size - NATURISM
The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.