uprising

[Eng. up, and rising.] 1. The act of rising, as from a bed or seat, or above the horizon. "Thou knowest my down sitting and my uprising ." Psalm cxxxix. 2. *2. An ascent, a slope, a rising. "The steep uprising of the hill." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , iv. 1. *3. A riot, a rising; a rebellion. "Vexed with such tumults and uprisings as they dailie procured."-Holinshed: Cron, England (an. 1115), *up-rist', s . [UPRISE, 8.] Uprising, rising. "And in the gardin at the sonne uprist ." Chaucer: C. Т. , 1,054. *up-rist', pret . of v. [UPRISE, v.] ( Chaucer : C. Τ . , 4,248.)