Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
rise , rise.
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Examples
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Mai kitteh luk at me wid such ammirashun wen ai furst got him….hero wurship….till one day ai had sum ryse an he sez, oh u habn dat!
And this is why you - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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But mabee a veggie burger made wit ryse n shrums n stuffff wud be taystier, deerie!
mother-in-law deer - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Some vse they haue of ryse, figs, and other fruits.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ghost. 44 These are seene euery where, as in the villages, houses, tauernes and graniers of corne and ryse, and are so tame that one can scharsely dryue them away.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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_Arumburch_ shee flyes, Him shee prouokes, him shee finds apt to rage, Imprisoning Pitties teares in flintie eyes; To him the power of _Siuill_ for a gage Shee doth bequeath; bidding his prowesse ryse, And clense his Countries face from widowes tears, To which he posts, like lightning from the sphears.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Sis are the seats of Liuing Breath: the rest are as sharp sickles or the horns of death, (the balance of power, or duty, is divided into two polarities) wherein the Creatures of ye earth are to are not, (they are not to be here) except myne own hand (self explanatory) which slepe and shall ryse.
How Venetian Is Venetian Painting? Hope, Charles 1982
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"Cherries on the ryse" (or, on twigs) was well known as a London street cry in the fifteenth century; but these were probably the fruit of the wild Cherry, or Gean tree.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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¶ Out of the erthe an/C/ryse shall. instead of sentence
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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Eche mornynge I ryse, doe I sette mie maydennes, 220
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Nothing daunted, Melville continued to fulminate against the authorities -- 'with ane heroicall spreit, the mair they stirit and bostit the mair he strak with that twa-eagit sword, sa that a day he movit the Provest, with sear rubbing of the ga of his conscience, to ryse out of his seatt in the middes of the sermont, and with some muttering of words to goe to the dure, out-throw the middes of the peiple.'
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison
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