raising

The act of lifting, elevating, etc. (in any sense of the verb).

Same as raising-piece.

That with which bread is raised; yeast or yeast-cake; leaven. Gayton, Festivous Notes on Don Quixote (cited by Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int.).

In printing, the overlays in a press for woodcut-printing.

The act of lifting, setting up, elevating, exalting, producing, or restoring to life.