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,
• 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.
• GRISTMILL
  A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill.
• 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.
• 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.
• PERISTALSIS
  Peristaltic contraction or action.
• 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.