Raise

To rear children or animals; to grow plants, crops, or vegetables.

1601.  France … can raise no good Sailers.—R. Johnson, ‘Kingdom and Commonwealth’ (1603), p. 89. (N.E.D.)

1632.  Directions … when to raise up goslings.—Massinger, ‘The City Madam,’ ii. 2. (Id.)

1774.  Fifty Dollars per head will readily be given for any number of Mules that may be raised within this Colony.—Newport Mercury, May 16.

1775.  [The Chickasaw Indians] raise abundance of small cattle, hogs, turkeys, ducks and dunghill fowls.—B. Romans, ‘Florida,’ p. 93.

1782.  Said Mare was raised by the subscriber, but was never measured.—Advt., Maryland Journal, Aug, 6.

1786.  Negroes and Bacon. To be sold, several likely healthy Negro Girls, from 12 to 17 Years of Age, for Cash, Wet Goods, or reasonable Credit. They have been raised in the country, and are sold for no fault. Also a few Hams and Shoulders of Bacon.—Id., Jan. 3.

1789.  The soil I chuse for raising Hemp is a light rich mould.—Gazette of the U.S., N.Y., April 25.

1789.  I raised [the hogs], and thought, and still think, that I had the best right to them.—Maryland Journal, Nov. 13.

1789.  “Remarks on raising calves without new milk,” were addressed by Mr. George Logan of Stanton to the Philadelphia county agricultural society.—American Museum, vi. 102 (Aug.).

1789.  Out of the same original stock, the Germans who are settled in Pennsylvania, raise large and heavy horses; the Irish raise such as are much lighter and smaller.—Id., vi. 279/1 (Oct.).

1793.  The famous Narragansett Pacing Horse, raised by Governor Potter of Southkingston, state of Rhodeisland.—Advt., Mass. Spy, May 2. [About this time it was not uncommon to compress local names into one word:—Longisland, Newengland, Newyork, Northcarolina, Westindies, &c. The practice is denounced in the Analectic Magazine, v. 233 (Philadelphia, March, 1815) in a review of Lewis and Clarke’s ‘Travels.’ Among the instances there given are Yellowstone River, Grapevines, Chokecherries, Newyork, Newlondon, Neworleans, and Longisland.]

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1799.  A planter who raises 20,000 weight of tobacco.—The Aurora, Phila., July 19.

1800.  The ox was raised in Morris County, Newjersey, by Mr. Fish.—Mass. Spy, June 25.

1803.  One Kernel of Rye, raised in the north part of Southampton, produced 148 Straws and 10656 Kernels of Rye.—Id., Aug. 24.

1810.  I learned that from hence down the Ohio, a good deal of cotton is raised, although on account of its not standing the winter, it must be planted every year.—F. Cuming, ‘Sketches of a Tour,’ p. 135.

1817.  I was raised, as they say in Virginia, among the mountains of the North, and I never see one that it does not conjure up a hundred pleasing associations.—J. K. Paulding, ‘Letters from the South,’ i. 102. (Italics in the original.)

1826.  The importance of raising Bees is not generally appreciated.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 9.

1827.  The men [were] cultivating corn and raising beef and pork in abundance.—Id., July 4.

1830.  “You raised that fine pair of belles, then, as they say at the South?” “I finished them, sir.”—Robert C. Sands, in The Talisman, p. 138 (N.Y.).

1833.  See FIXINGS.

1833.  They don’t raise such humans in the old dominion, no how.—James Hall, ‘The Harpe’s Head,’ p. 91 (Phila.).

1838.  50 DOLLARS REWARD will be given for Delia, a mulatto woman about 48 years of age, if apprehended north of the State of Maryland, and so secured that I may get her again…. She was raised by the late Mrs. Hannah Brent of Fauquier county, Virginia, and purchased of the executor of the late Eppa Hunton, deceased.—Advt. in Washington Intelligencer, March 5: J. S. Buckingham, ‘America,’ i. 282.

1842.  At that day a child at seven years of age, that could not spin, was set down as not worth raising.—Mr. Snyder of Pa., House of Repr., June 22: Cong. Globe, p. 712, App.

1842.  How in the deuce does Lancaster raise so many smart humans?—Phila. Spirit of the Times, Oct. 20.

1848.  I was hatched in Washington County, Varmount, and raised all about the green mountings thereaway.—W. E. Burton, ‘Waggeries,’ pp. 67–8 (Phila.).

1848.  “Where was you raised, old feller?”… “Raised!” “Yes, raised—fotched up. You was fotched up somewhere, I reckon.”—Id., p. 88.

1850.  One man, who raised the largest cucumbers, and had the most satisfactory children, and drove the prettiest carryall, said his thermometer, at thirty-eight minutes after seven, stood at five and three-quarters below zero.—S. Judd, ‘Richard Edney,’ p. 46.