subs. (colloquial).—An improvement in conditions.

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  1848.  RUXTON, Life in the Far West, 19. If we don’t make a RAISE afore long, I wouldn’t say so.

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  1886.  Philadelphia Times, 6 April. No further difficulty is anticipated in making permanent the RAISE of the freight blockade in this city.

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  Verb. (old: now American colloquial).—To rear: of human beings, crops and cattle.

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  1597.  SHAKESPEARE, Richard III., v. 3, 247.

        A bloody tyrant and a homicide;
One RAISED in blood.

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  1744.  MATTHEW BISHOP, Life and Adventures [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, ii. 164. A child is raised (bred up), p. 268; this is still an American phrase].

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  1768.  FRANKLIN, Letter to John Alleyne, 9 Aug. By these early Marriages we are blest with more Children; and from the Mode among us, founded in Nature, of every Mother suckling and nursing her own Child, more of them are RAISED.

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  1851.  ABBY ALLIN, Home Ballads, 22, ‘New England and New Englanders.’

        Rhody has RAISED the biggest man,
  Connecticut, Tom Thumb!

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  1869.  H. B. STOWE, Oldtown Folks, viii. Miss Asphyxia had talked of ‘takin’ a child from the poor-house, and so RAISIN’ her own help.’

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  1887.  H. HARLAND, (‘Sidney Luska’), A Land of Love [Lippincott’s Magazine, 198]. I was born and RAISED ’way down in the little village of Unity, Maine.

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  1890.  The Literary World, 31 Jan., 102, 2. She was RAISED in a good family as a nurse and seamstress.

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