Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as,
a dropsical patient.
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. [U.S.] 3. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup- shaped or...