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Word Meanings - RELEVATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A raising or lifting up.

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  • LIFT
    The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
  • RAISE
    To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
  • RAISED
    1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
  • RAIS
    See REIS
  • RAISING
    1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal,
  • RAISER
    One who, or that which, raises .
  • RAISIN
    1. A grape, or a bunch of grapes. Cotgrave. 2. A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat. Raisin tree , the common red currant, whose fruit resembles the small raisins of Corinth called currants. Dp. Prior.
  • LIFTING
    Used in, or for, or by, lifting. Lifting bridge, a lift bridge. -- Lifting jack. See 2d Jack, 5. -- Lifting machine. See Health lift, under Health. -- Lifting pump. A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston,
  • RAISONNE
    Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonné. See under Catalogue.
  • LIFTER
    A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lifts.
  • RAISABLE
    Capable of being raised.
  • LIFTABLE
    Such as can be lifted.
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • LIVRAISON
    A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
  • HEBRAIST
    One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
  • MISRAISE
    To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • KARAISM
    Doctrines of the Karaites.
  • FRAISE
    A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson.
  • ULTRAISM
    The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like. Dr. H. More.
  • OVERPRAISING
    The act of praising unduly; excessive praise. Milton.
  • PRAISER
    1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
  • FRAISED
    Fortified with a fraise.
  • BRAISE; BRAIZE
    A European marine fish allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
  • DISPRAISABLE
    Blamable.
  • OVERPRAISE
    To praise excessively or unduly.
  • SUPERPRAISE
    To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.

 

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