(medicine) A test predicting mortality risk in older people, based on whether and how easily they can sit on the floor and then rise back to a standing position.

plural of self-rising flour

present participle of rise from the dead

plural of salt-rising bread

(cooking) A dense white bread that is traditional in the Appalachian Mountains, leavened by naturally occurring Clostridium perfringens and other bacteria rather than by yeast.

To be the origin of; to produce; to result in.

A tall building, one consisting of many storeys.

(of clothing) Designed to sit high on, or above, the wearer's hips.

(architecture) A building of no more than a few stories.

(fashion) Of lower-body clothing: whose waistline does not reach the waist, but hangs along the hips.