acclivity, hill &c 217; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder
rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.
V. ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way
up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.
climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade†, surmount; shin, shinny,
shinney; scale, scale the heights.
[cause to go up] raise, elevate &c 307.
go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up,
jump up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim,
float, surge; leap &c 309.
Adj. rising &c v.. scandent†, buoyant; supernatant, superfluitant†;
excelsior.
Adv. uphill.