(meteorology) Rapid rising of smoke clouds due to heat generated by burning munitions and/or existing convection currents.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reask

Any of certain baleen whales of the family Balaenidae, in the genera Eubalaena (three species) and Balaena (one species, the bowhead whale, also called the Greenland right whale).

(idiomatic) That's a pity; that's unfortunate. / (idiomatic) It is unfortunate that.