Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet.
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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.
A mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.
The process of forming an artificial palate.
Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.
A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.
Of or pertaining to uranium; containing uranium.
An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239. --radioactive, U-235 isotope is used in atomic fission, in bombs or power plants -->
Of or pertaining to uranography; as, an uranographic treatise.
One practiced in uranography.
A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.
A meteorite or aerolite.
A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.
A uranometry.
A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.
The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.
Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies.
A combining form (also used adjectively) from uranium; -- used in naming certain complex compounds; as in uranoso-uranic oxide, uranoso-uranic sulphate.
Pertaining to, or containing, uranium; designating those compounds in which uranium has a lower valence as contrasted with the uranic compounds.
The radical UO2, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.
See Trona.
See Curare.
A salt of uric acid; as, sodium urate; ammonium urate.
Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
A large and delicious pear or Flemish origin.
To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish.
An extensive family of butterflies (Hesperidae), including those known as skippers.
Of or pertaining to a city; urban.
Urceolate.
Shaped like a pitcher or urn; swelling below, and contracted at the orifice, as a calyx or corolla.
A vessel for water for washing the hands; also, one to hold wine or water.
Any urn-shaped organ of a plant.
Rough; pricking; piercing.
The urchin, or hedgehog.
The language more generally called Hindustanee.
To use; to exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice.
The urus.
A very soluble crystalline body which is the chief constituent of the urine in mammals and some other animals. It is also present in small quantity in blood, serous fluids, lymph, the liver, etc.
Of or pertaining to urea; containing, or consisting of, urea; as, ureal deposits.
An apparatus for the determination of the amount of urea in urine, in which the nitrogen evolved by the action of certain reagents, on a given volume of urine, is collected and measured, and the urea calculated accordingly.
A glucoside extracted from the leaves of a certain plant (Urechitis suberecta) as a bitter white crystalline substance.
A poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.
An order of fungi of the phylum Basidiomycota, comprising the rust fungi.
The thin-walled summer spore which is produced during the so-called Uredo stage of certain rusts. See (in the Supplement) Uredinales, Heter/cious, etc.
Any one of the many complex derivatives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides.
The duct which conveys the urine from the kidney to the bladder or cloaca. There are two ureters, one for each kidney.
Inflammation of the ureter.
A white crystalline substance, NH2.CO.OC2H5, produced by the action of ammonia on ethyl carbonate or by heating urea nitrate and ethyl alcohol. It is used as a hypnotic, antipyretic, and antispasmodic. Hence, any ester of carbamic acid.
The canal by which the urine is conducted from the bladder and discharged.
Of or pertaining to the urethra.
Inflammation of the urethra.
An operation for the repair of an injury or a defect in the walls of the urethra.
An instrument for viewing the interior of the urethra.
Examination of the urethra by means of the urethroscope.
An instrument for cutting a urethral stricture.
An incision of the urethra, esp. incision for relief of urethral stricture.
Of or pertaining to the urine; diuretic; urinary; as, uretic medicine.
To press onward or forward.
Urgency.
The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
In an urgent manner.
One who urges.
Of or pertaining to urine; obtained from urine; as, uric acid.
A part or decoration of the breastplate of the high priest among the ancient Jews, by which Jehovah revealed his will on certain occasions. Its nature has been the subject of conflicting conjectures.
A reservoir for urine, etc., for manure.
A urinarium; also, a urinal.
To discharge urine; to make water.
The act or process of voiding urine; micturition.
Provoking the flow of urine; uretic; diuretic.
One who dives under water in search of something, as for pearls; a diver.
To urinate.
Bearing or conveying urine; as, uriniferous tubules.
Producing or preparing urine; as, the uriniparous tubes in the cortical portion of the kidney.
Pertaining to the urinary and genital organs; genitourinary; urogenital; as, the urinogenital canal.
A small hydrometer for determining the specific gravity of urine.
The estimation of the specific gravity of urine by the urinometer.
Of or pertaining to urine, or partaking of its qualities; having the character or odor of urine; similar to urine.
One of the segments of the abdomen or post-abdomen of arthropods.
The bindings of a hedge.
To inclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.
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