Raisin tree (Bot.), the common red currant bush, whose fruit resembles
the small raisins of Corinth called currants. [Eng.] Dr. Prior.
Rais"ing (rz"ng), n. 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 hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
Raising bee, a bee for raising the frame of a building. See Bee, n., 2.
[U.S.] W. Irving. -- Raising hammer, a hammer with a rounded face, used
in raising sheet metal. -- Raising plate (Carp.), the plate, or
longitudinal timber, on which a roof is raised and rests.
||Rai`son`né" (r`z`n"), a. [F. raisonné, p. p. of raisonner to reason.]
||Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a
||catalogue raisonné. See under Catalogue.