Webster's Dictionary 1913

2215

Uprush (2)

Up″rush′ (?), n. Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava. R. A. Proctor.

2216

Upsarokas

Up′sar‐o″kas (?), n. pl.(Ethnol.) See Crows.

2217

Upseek

Up‐seek″ (?), v. i. To seek or strain upward. “Upseeking eyes suffused with... tears.” Southey.

2218

Upsend

Up‐send″ (?), v. t. To send, cast, or throw up.As when some island situate afar...Upsends a smoke to heaven. Cowper.

2219

Upset

Up‐set″ (?), v. t. 1. To set up; to put upright. “With sail on mast upset.” R. of Brunne.2. (a) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. (b) T...

2220

Upset (2)

Up‐set″, v. i. To become upset.

2221

Upset (3)

Up″set′ (?), 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, ...

2222

Upset (4)

Up″set′, n. The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.

2223

Upset (5)

Up‐set″, v. t.(Basketwork) To turn upwards the outer ends of (stakes) so as to make a foundation for the side of a basket or the like; also, to form (the side) in this manner.

2224

Upsetting

Up‐set″ting (?), a. Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.

2225

Upsetting thermometer

Up‐set″ting ther‐mom″e‐ter. A thermometer by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered. The column of mercury is broken and, as it remains until the instrument is...

2226

Upshoot

Up‐shoot″ (?), v. i. To shoot upward. “Trees upshooting high.” Spenser.

2227

Upshot

Up″shot′ (?), n. [Up + shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Cf. the phrase to cast up an account.] Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the...

2228

Upside

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, ...

2229

Upsidown

Up″si‐down′ (?), adv. See Upsodown. Spenser.

2230

Upsilon

Up″si‐lon (?), n. [Gr. ὐ̑ ψιλόν bare, mere, simple y.] The 20th letter (Υ, υ) of the Greek alphabet, a vowel having originally the sound of o͞o as in room, becoming before the 4...

2231

Upsitting

Up″sit′ting (?), n. A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends.To invite your lady's upsitting. Beau. & Fl.

2232

Upskip

Up‐skip′ (?), n. An upstart. Latimer.

2233

Upsnatch

Up‐snatch″ (?), v. t. To snatch up.

2234

Upsoar

Up‐soar″ (?), v. i. To soar or mount up. Pope.

2235

Upsodown

Up″so‐down′ (?), adv. [Up + so as + down.] Upside down. Wyclif.In man's sin is every manner order or ordinance turned upsodown. Chaucer.

2236

Upspear

Up‐spear″ (?), v. i. To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass. Cowper.

2237

Upspring

Up‐spring″ (?), v. i. To spring up. Tennyson.

2238

Upspring (2)

Up″spring′ (?), n. 1. An upstart. “The swaggering upspring.” Shak.2. A spring or leap into the air. Chapman.

2239

Upspurner

Up″spurn′er (?), n. A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer. Joye.

2240

Upstairs

Up‐stairs″ (?), adv. Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

2241

Upstairs (2)

Up″stairs′ (?), a. Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.