Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RIS-ING, n.

1. The act of getting up from any recumbent or sitting posture.
2. The act of ascending; as, the rising of vapor.
3. The act of closing a session, as of a public body; as, the rising of the legislature.
4. The appearance of the sun or a star above the horizon.
5. The act of reviving from the dead; resurrection. – Mark ix.
6. A tumor on the body. – Lev. xiii.
7. An assembling in opposition to government; insurrection; sedition or mutiny.