Dictionary entry

Upside

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Up″side′ (?), n. The upper side; the part that is uppermost.

To be upsides with, to be even with. Sir W. Scott.T. Hughes.Upside down. [Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down.] With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. Shak.

These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. Acts xvii. 6.