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Up [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Aloft; on high

2. But up or down -

3. Out of bed. He is not up

4. Having risen from a seat.

5. Sir Roger was up

6. From a state of concealment or discumbiture.

7. In a state of being built.

8. UP with my tent.

9. Above the horizon. The sun is up

10. To a state of excitement. He was wrought up to a rage.

11. To a state of advance or proficiency.

12. - Till we have wrought ourselves up to this degree of christian indifference.

13. In a state of elevation or exaltation.

14. Those that were up kept others low.

15. In a state of climbing or ascending. We went up to the city or town.

16. In a state of insurrection.

17. The gentle archbishop of York is up

18. My soul is up in arms.

19. In a state of being increased or raised. The river is up; the flood is up

20. In a state of approaching; as up comes a fox.

21. In order. He drew up his regiment.

22. From younger to elder years; as from his youth up

23. up and down, from one place to another; here and there.

24. From one state or position to another; backwards and forwards.

25. up to, to an equal highth with; as up to the chin in water.

26. To a degree or point adequate. Live up to the principles professed.

27. UP with, raise; life; as, up with the fist; up with the timber.

28. UP is much used to modify the actions expressed by verbs. It is very often useful and necessary; very often useless.

29. To bear up to sustain.

30. To go up to ascend.

31. To lift up to raise.

32. To get up to rise from bed or a seat.

33. To bind up to bind together.

34. To blow up to inflate; to distend; to inflame.

35. To grow up to grow to maturity.

36. UP stream, from the mouth towards the head of a stream; against the stream; hence up is in a direction towards the head of a stream or river; as up the country.

37. UP sound, in the direction from the sea; opposed to down sound, that is, in the direction of the ebb tide.

38. UP is used elliptically for get up expressing a command or exhortation.

39. UP , let us be going. Judges 19:5 .

Up [Preposition] Webster's Dictionary 1828

From a lower to a higher place. Go up the hill.

Up [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.

Up [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down.

2. From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied.

3. In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up.

4. To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements.

5. To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent.

6. Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.

Up [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; -- rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs.

Up [Preposition] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of.

2. From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson.

3. Upon.

Up-line [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Up-train Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A train going in the direction of the metropolis or the main terminus.

2. A train going in the direction conventionally called up.

Upanishads Encyclopedia Britannica

UPANISHADS. See Sanskrit, vol. xxi. p. 280, and Brahmanism.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 859
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Upas [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.

2. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).

Upas Encyclopedia Britannica

UPAS, a Javanese word meaning poison, and specially applied by the Malays and people of western Java to the poison derived from the gum of the anchar tree (Antiaris toxicaria), one of the Artocarpeae, which was commonly used in Celebes to envenom the bamboo darts of the natives. The name of the upas tree has become famous from the mendacious account (professedly by one Foersch, who was a surgeon at Samarang in 1773) published in the London Magazine, December 1783, and popularized by Erasmus Darwin in “Loves of the Plants” {Botanic Garden, pt. ii.). The tree was said to destroy all animal life within a radius of 15 miles or more. The poison was fetched by condemned malefactors, of whom scarcely two out of twenty returned. All this is pure fable, and in good part not even traditional fable, but mere invention.

For a scientific account of the Αntiαris, see Horsfield’s Plantae Javanieae PAríorcs (1838-52) and Blume's Rumphia (Brussels, 1836), and for the legend Yule, Anglo-Indian Glossary, p. 726 sg.

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Upbar [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To fasten with a bar.

2. To remove the bar or bards of, as a gate; to under.

Upbear [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense upbore; participle passive upborne. [up and bear. See Bear .]

2. To raise aloft; to life; to elevate.

3. To sustain aloft; to support in an elevated situation.

4. Upborne they fly.

5. To support; to sustain.

Upbear [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain.

Upbind [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To bind up.

Upbind [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To bind up.

Upblow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To blow up. [Not used.]

Upblow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To blow up; as, the wind upblows from the sea.

Upblow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To inflate.

Upbraid [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast in the teeth; followed by with or for, before the thing imputed; as, to upbraid a man for his folly or his intemperance.

2. Yet do not upbraid us with our distress.

3. He upbraided them with their unbelief. Mark 16:14 .

4. [The use of to and of, after upbraid as to upbraid a man of his gain by iniquity, to upbraid to a man his evil practices, has been long discontinued.]

5. To reproach; to chide.

6. God who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. James 1:5 .

7. To reprove with severity.

8. Then he began to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done - Matthew 11:20 .

9. To bring reproach on.

10. How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!

11. To treat with contempt. obsolete

Upbraid [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of reproaching; contumely.

Upbraid [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To utter upbraidings.

Upbraid [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.

2. To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.

3. To treat with contempt.

4. To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person.

Upbraided [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Charged with something wrong or disgraceful; reproached; reproved.

Upbraided [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Upbraider [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who upbraids or reproves.

Upbraiding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A charging with something wrong or disgraceful; the act of reproaching or reproving.

2. I have too long borne your blunt upbraidings.

3. The reproaches or accusations of conscience.

Upbraiding [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Accusing; casting in the teeth; reproaching; reproving.

Upbraiding [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Upbray [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

UPBRAY , for upbraid, to shame, is not in use.

Upbreak [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.

Upbreak [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

Upbreathe [Verb reflexive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To breathe up or out; to exhale.

Upbreed [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To rear, or bring up; to nurse.

Upbrought [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

upbraut'. Brought up; educated. [Not in use.]

Upbrought [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Brought up; educated.

Upbuoyance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of buoying up; uplifting.

Upburst [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of bursting upwards; a breaking through to the surface; an upbreak or uprush; as, an upburst of molten matter.