Word Meanings - MOUNTANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Raised; high.

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• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• RAIS
  See REIS
• RAISING
  1. The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life. 2. Specifically, the operation or work of setting up the frame of a building; as, to help at a raising. 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal,
• RAISER
  One who, or that which, raises .
• RAISIN
  1. A grape, or a bunch of grapes. Cotgrave. 2. A grape dried in the sun or by artificial heat. Raisin tree , the common red currant, whose fruit resembles the small raisins of Corinth called currants. Dp. Prior.
• RAISONNE
  Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonné. See under Catalogue.
• RAISABLE
  Capable of being raised.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• HEBRAIST
  One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• KARAISM
  Doctrines of the Karaites.
• FRAISE
  A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson.
• OVERPRAISING
  The act of praising unduly; excessive praise. Milton.
• ULTRAISM
  The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like. Dr. H. More.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• FRAISED
  Fortified with a fraise.
• BRAISE; BRAIZE
  A European marine fish allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
• DISPRAISABLE
  Blamable.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• HEBRAISM
  1. A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison. 2. The type of character of the Hebrews. The governing idea of Hebraism is strictness of conscience. M. Arnold.