Upheld () imp. & p. p. of Uphold.
Upher (n.) A fir pole of from four to seven inches diameter, and twenty to forty feet long, sometimes roughly hewn, used for scaffoldings, and sometimes for slight and common roofs, for which use it is split.
Uphill (adv.) Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.
Uphill (a.) Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.
Uphill (a.) Attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.
Uphilt (v. t.) To thrust in up to the hilt; as, to uphilt one's sword into an enemy.
Uphoard (v. t.) To hoard up.
Uphold (v. t.) To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
Uphold (v. t.) To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
Uphold (v. t.) To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.
Upholder (n.) A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman.
Upholder (n.) An undertaker, or provider for funerals.
Upholder (n.) An upholsterer.
Upholder (n.) One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.
Upholster (v. t.) To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to upholster a room with curtains.
Upholster (n.) A broker.
Upholster (n.) An upholsterer.
Upholsterer (n.) One who provides hangings, coverings, cushions, curtains, and the like; one who upholsters.
Upholstery (n.) The articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; the business or work of an upholsterer.
Uphroe (n.) Same as Euphroe.
Upland (n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.
Upland (n.) The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.
Upland (a.) Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.
Upland (a.) Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.
Uplander (n.) One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic.
Uplander (n.) The upland sandpiper.
Uplandish (a.) Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.
Uplandish (a.) Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized.
Uplay (v. t.) To hoard.
Uplead (v. t.) To lead upward.
Uplean (v. i.) To lean or incline upon anything.
Uplifting (imp. & p. p.) of Uplift
Uplift (v. t.) To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.
Uplift (n.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.
Up-line (n.) A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the track upon which up-trains run. See Up-train.
Uplock (v. t.) To lock up.
Uplook (v. i.) To look or gaze up.
Upmost (a.) Highest; topmost; uppermost.
Upokororo (n.) An edible fresh-water New Zealand fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus) of the family Haplochitonidae. In general appearance and habits, it resembles the northern lake whitefishes and trout. Called also grayling.
Upon (prep.) On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.
Uppent (a.) A Pent up; confined.
Upper (comp.) Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.
Upper (n.) The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
Uppermost (a.) Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
Uppertendom (n.) The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
Uppile (v. t.) To pile, or heap, up.
Uppish (a.) Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.
Upplight () imp. & p. p. of Uppluck.
Uppluck (v. t.) To pull or pluck up.
Uppricked (a.) Upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal.
Upprop (v. t.) To prop up.
Upraise (v. t.) To raise; to lift up.
Uprear (v. t.) To raise; to erect.
Upridged (a.) Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged.
Upright (a.) In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.
Upright (a.) Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.
Upright (a.) Conformable to moral rectitude.
Upright (a.) Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.
Upright (n.) Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.
Uprighteously (adv.) In an upright or just manner.
Uprightly (adv.) In an upright manner.
Uprightness (n.) the quality or state of being upright.
Uprise (v. i.) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
Uprise (v. i.) To have an upward direction or inclination.
Uprise (n.) The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.
Uprising (n.) Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent.
Uprising (n.) An insurrection; a popular revolt.
Uprist (n.) Uprising.
Uprist () imp. of Uprise. Uprose.
Uproar (n.) Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
Uproar (v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion.
Uproar (v. i.) To make an uproar.
Uproarious (a.) Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment.
Uproll (v. t.) To roll up.
Uproot (v. t.) To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
Uprouse (v. t.) To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse.
Uprun (v. i.) To run up; to ascend.
Uprush (v. i.) To rush upward.
Uprush (n.) Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava.
Upsarokas (n. pl.) See Crows.
Upseek (v. i.) To seek or strain upward.
Upsend (v. t.) To send, cast, or throw up.
Upset (v. t.) To set up; to put upright.
Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
Upset (v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
Upset (v. t.) To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
Upset (v. t.) To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
Upset (v. i.) To become upset.
Upset (a.) Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
Upset (n.) The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
Upsetting (a.) Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow.
Upshoot (v. i.) To shoot upward.
Upshot (n.) Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.
Upside (n.) The upper side; the part that is uppermost.
Upsidown (adv.) See Upsodown.
Upsitting (n.) A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends.
Upskip (n.) An upstart.
Upsnatch (v. t.) To snatch up.
Upsoar (v. i.) To soar or mount up.
Upsodown (adv.) Upside down.