Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of raise.
  • A Middle English form of race.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To raise.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To go on a military expedition.

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  • verb Obsolete form of raise.
  • verb obsolete To go on a military expedition.

Etymologies

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Compare German reisen to travel.

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Examples

  • Hirrideert onder den naem van Willem Aelbertsen Blauvelt, die bekent de voornoemde Somma uyt handen van Augustyn Heerman ontfangen te hebben ende belooft, soo Godt de heere hem Capitain Willem Albertsen een ofte meer prysen t'sy groot ofte cleen verleent van dese reyse, aende voornoemde Sr.

    Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

  • ¶ Take a brewe, and reyse his legges and his wynges in the same maner, and no sauce but onely salte, & serue your souerayne.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • Take a woodcocke, & reyse his legges and his wynges as an henne; this done, dyght the brayne.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • ¶ Take a curlewe, and reyse his legges and his wynges as an henne, and no sauce but salte.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • ¶ Take a bytture, and reyse his legges & his wynges as an heron, & no sauce but salte.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • ¶ Take a sarcell or a teele, and reyse his wynges & his legges, and no sauce but salte onely.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • ¶ Take a cony, and laye hym on the backe, & cut awaye the ventes/than reyse the wynges and the sydes, and laye bulke, chyne, and the sydes togyder; sauce, vynegre and poudre of gynger.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • ¶ Take an egryt, and reyse his legges and his wynges as an heron, and no sauce but salte.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • ¶ Take a quayle, and reyse his legges and his wynges as an henne, and no sauce but salte.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • ¶ Take a partryche, and reyse his legges and his wynges as a henne/& ye mynce hym, sauce hym with wyn, poudre of gynger, & salte/that set it vpon a chaufyng-dysshe of coles to warme & serue it.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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