imp. p. p. of Uphold.

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.

Ascending; going up; as, an uphill road.

To thrust in up to the hilt; as, to uphilt one's sword into an enemy.

To hoard up.

To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

A broker.

One who provides hangings, coverings, cushions, curtains, and the like; one who upholsters.

The articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; the business or work of an upholsterer.

Same as Euphroe.

The act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance of persons, organizations, or objects such as machinery, by providing a location, repairs, and consumable items when necessary.

Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.

One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic.

Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.

To hoard.

To lead upward.

To lean or incline upon anything.

A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.

To lock up.

To look or gaze up.

Highest; topmost; uppermost.

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.

On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.

A Pent up; confined.

The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.

Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.

The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.

To pile, or heap, up.

Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.

imp. p. p. of Uppluck.

To pull or pluck up.

Upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal.

To prop up.

To raise; to lift up.

To raise; to erect.

Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged.

Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

In an upright or just manner.

In an upright manner.

the quality or state of being upright.

The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent.

imp. of Uprise. Uprose.

To make an uproar.

Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment.

To roll up.

To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.

To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse.

To run up; to ascend.

Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava.

See Crows.

relating to, or characteristic of, affluent people or people in the upper social classes.

To seek or strain upward.

To send, cast, or throw up.

The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow.

To shoot upward.

Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.

The upper side; the part that is uppermost.

in such a manner that the part normally pointed upward is pointed downward; same as upsidown and upsodown.

See Upsodown.

The 20th letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, a vowel having originally the sound of / as in room, becoming before the 4th century b. c. that French u or Ger. /. Its equivalent in English is u or y.

A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends.

An upstart.

To snatch up.

To soar or mount up.

Upside down.

To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass.

An upstart.

A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer.

Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.

To stand up; to be erected; to rise.

To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous.

Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence.

To sustain; to support.

imp. p. p. of Upstart.

Insurrection; commotion; disturbance.

Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.

Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet.

An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made.

The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset.

To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms.

To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club.

To swell or rise up.

Upside down; topsy-turvy.

To take into the hand; to take up; to help.

To tear up.

See Throw, n., 9.

To send up a noise like thunder.

To tie up.

To; against.

Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society.

To trace up or out.

To train up; to educate.

To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing.

A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe.

To waft upward.

The upper part; the top.

To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.

To wind up.

being or moving in the direction from which the wind is blowing.

To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke.

imp. of Upgive.

A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.

Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.

Of or pertaining to uraemia; as, uraemic convulsions.

The posterior half of an animal.

A serpent, or serpent's head and neck, represented on the front of the headdresses of divinities and sovereigns as an emblem of supreme power.

Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia.

Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.

See Curare.

Of or relating to the Ural Mountains.

Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.

The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.

Murexan.

A yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure.

A salt of uranic acid.

Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.

Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.

An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein.