Dictionary: UP-ROUS'ING – U-RAN-GLIM'MER

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UP-ROUS'ING, ppr.

Rousing from sleep.

UP-SET', v.t. [up and set.]

To overturn; to overthrow; to overset; as a carriage.

UP'SHOT, n. [up and shot.]

Final issue; conclusion; end; as, the upshot of the matter. Here is the upshot and result of all. Burnet.

UPSIDE-DOWN, adv. [Upside down.]

The upper part undermost. As a phrase, this denotes in confusion; in complete disorder. South.

UP-SNATCH'ING, a.

Snatching up; seizing. Atherstone.

UP'SPRING, n. [up and spring.]

An upstart. [Not in use.] Shak.

UP-SPRING', v.i.

To spring up. [Not in use.] Sackville.

UP-STAND', v.i.

To be erected. [Not used.] May.

UP'START, a.

Suddenly raised. Shak.

UP'START, n.

  1. One that suddenly rises from low life to wealth, power or honor. Spenser.
  2. Something that springs up suddenly. Milton. Bacon.

UP-START', v.i. [up and start.]

To start or spring up suddenly. Dryden.

UP-STAY', v.t. [up and stay.]

To sustain; to support. Milton.

UP-STAY'ING, ppr.

Supporting.

UP-SWARM', v.t. [See Swarm.]

To raise in a swarm. [Not in use.] Shak.

UP-TAKE', v.t. [up and take.]

To take into the hand. [Not in use.] Spenser.

UP-TEAR', v.t. [up and tear.]

To tear up. Milton.

UP-TRAIN', v.t. [up and train.]

To train up; to educate. [Not in use.] Spenser.

UP-TURN, v.t. [up and turn.]

To turn up; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing. Milton. Pope.

UP'WARD, a. [up and ward, Sax. weard, L. versus.]

Directed to a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward speed. Dryden. Prior.

UP'WARD, adv.

  1. Toward a higher place; opposed to downward. Upward I lift my eye. Watts.
  2. Toward heaven and God. Looking inward, we are struck dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.
  3. With respect to the higher part. Upward man, Downward fish. Milton.
  4. More than, indefinitely. Upward of ten years have elapsed; upward of a hundred men were present.
  5. Toward the source. Trace the stream upward. And trace the muses upward to their spring. Pope.

UP'WARD, n.

The top. [Not in use.] Shak.

UP-WHIRL', v.i. [upwhurl'. up and whirl.]

To rise upward in a whirl; to whirl upward. Milton.

UP-WHIRL', v.t.

To raise upward in a whirling direction.

UP-WIND', v.t. [up and wind.]

To wind up. Spenser.

U-RAN-GLIM'MER, n.

An ore of uranium; uran-mica; chalcolite.