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Risin(g, vbl. n. Also: rys(e)-, riss-, ryis(s)-, ryss- and -inge, -y(i)ng, -eng, -ang, -yne. [ME and e.m.E. ryseng (c1200), rising (Cursor M.); Ris(e v.] The action of rising, in various senses of Ris(e v.

1. The action of getting up, as from bed or after a fall. b. Resurrection. Also with agane (in Nisbet, after Purvey). ?1438 Alex. ii 1893.
At his rysing he him sesit c1460 Dietary 44 (Makc.).
First at thi rysyng do thi God reuerence 15.. Clar. iv 463.
Bonvaleir scho commandit for to go … To the gudwyfe … Commanding hir to be at hir rysing c1575 Balfour Pract. 541.
That he assailȝeit him in his awin proper house, quhair he has his winning, rising, and lying day and nicht 1576–7 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 21.
At hir rysing out of jesing lairb. a1400 Leg. S. xxiii 446.
God has ws raysit before the day Of the gret rysing c1520-c1535 Nisbet Luke xx 33.
The rysing agane of dede men [P. the risyng aȝen]

2. The act of taking up arms, for defence or in rebellion; an armed assembly. 1512 Reg. Privy S. I 367/1.
To ansuer and obey to him … in rising and cumming with him to all our oistis and service c1650 Spalding II 292.
Since the countrie wes vpone raising of ane army whidder or not thay sould go to armes to imped thair rysing 1682 Lauder Notices Affairs I 358.
Immediatly on the noise of any field conventicle, or rising, to dissipat them

3. The breaking up or adjournment of an assembly, court, etc. 1518 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 48.
Befor the rising of the balyeis 1565 Instit. Ct. Sess. in Edinb. Univ. MS La. iii 388a fol. 4b.
That nane of thame depairt befoir the rysyng of the lordis 1649 Rec. Kirk Scotl. 587.
The first exchequer day that was holdin after the ryssing of the parliament 1681 Inverness Rec. II 290.
After the rysing of the counsell the haill members therof to go [etc.]

4. The rising of the sun; sunrise. Also fig. and proverb.Freq. const. (the) sone rising, also, with a parallel phrase referring to the setting of the sun.(1) 1400 Melville Chart. 16.
Betwixt the sune rysing and the ganging too of that ilk 1487 Douglas Chart. 120.
Risin 1493 15th Rep. Hist. MSS App. viii 53.
Risyng 1505 Dunferm. B. Rec. I 149.
Quhill the sade John or his airris pay the sade sovme … apone ane day betuix the sone ryssyne and the dovne ganging of the samyn 1510 Rep. Boyle in 8th Rep. Hist. MSS App. i 308/1.
Risying 1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 25.
Twa houris after sone rising 1588 Crim. Trials I ii 163. 1596 Dalr. II 222/16.
Ryseng 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I 105.
Sche commandit the said Johne … to eat sourrakis aboute sonne rysing 1597 Rec. Earld. Orkney 322.
[Redemption is provided for] uppoun ane day betuix the sone ryissing and doun passing of that ilk 1610 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II 162.
Betwixt sone ryising and going to thairof ?c1675 J. Gordon Hist. II 223.
Rysingeproverb. a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1172.
Mae admeirs the sunne rysing nor the sunne going to(2) 1419 Hay Geneal. Sainteclaires 60.
Ryseing 1422 Stirlings of Keir 208.
Ryssyng 1425 Coll. Aberd. & B. 525.
Ryseyng 1494 Loutfut MS 2a.
At thair be maid twa portis the tane to the rising of the sone and the tothir to the ganging to of the sone 1498 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 613.
Rissing 1591 Edinb. B. Rec. V 53.
Fra the dounpassing of the sone to the rysing thairof — 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 156/28.
Frome the rising vp of the sone onto the gangin doun of the samynfig. c1552 Lynd. Mon. 182.
Glaid of the rysing of thare royall roye [sc. Phebus]

b. Of other heavenly bodies. 1513 Doug. x v 145.
Frawart Syrius … at hys rysyng Byrnys the erth

c. The day (skey) rising, daybreak. ?1438 Alex. ii 3962.
Weill arly at the day rising 1683 Cullen Kirk S. II 5 Nov.
From Saturday at skey setting till Munday at skey rysing

5. Increase in height of the seas or a river. 1533 Boece 479b.
The brym rising and violent stremys of the est sey 1621 Perth Kirk S. MS 17 Oct.
The maner of the rysing of the watter wes this

6. Advancement in power or importance. c1420 Wynt. iv 1966 (W).
Pres nocht to put thame [sc. servants] to gret hycht, Na to na hie rysing of mycht 1602 Cal. Sc. P. XIII 1050.
[The wicked … courses my husband runs … make me despair either of his] ryssing [or my own] 1621-40 Melville Commonpl. Bk. 6.
The rysang of ane is the fall of ane uthir

7. The beginning, or growing up, of (a person or non-material thing); the growth of trees or plants.(1) c1475 Wall. i 360.
In his rysyng he worthi was in wer Ib. viii 1143.(2) 1551 Hamilton Cat. 188.
We suld labour to mortifie the same concupiscence … be putting doune the first motiouns and rysingis of the same a1599 Rollock Wks. I 321.
Then luik the nature, the beginning, and rysing of faith(3) 1555 Acts II 497/1.
That the said wod of Falkland be … hanit for rysing of ȝoung grouth thairof

8. An upward-sloping stratum or rising seam of coal. Cf. 19th c. Eng. in this sense (1855). 1685 Sinclair Satan's Inv. World xxxv.
A large discourse anent coal … dipps, risings and streeks of coal, levels, running of mines [etc.]

9. The action of raising, in various senses of Raising vbl. n. 1531 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 102.
The brekin of the calsay and rising of the samen — 1574–5 Haddington Treas. Acc. 5.
For the letters getting and rysing of the sygnet on the lard of Bas a1578 Pitsc. I 115/21.
He … was the slackker in the ryssing of his men and armye aganis the king