up 
there was a rap at his front door, we should know that 
he was not up to his work. 
W. K. Clifford, Lectures, II. 137. 
7. In or into activity, motion, operation, etc. 
Specifically (a) Out of bed ; risen from sleep. 
Fair day, my lords. You are all larkes this morning, 
Vp with the sun : you are stirring earely. 
Heywood, If you Know not me, 11. 
May. Where is your mistress, villain? when went she 
abroad : 
Pren. Abroad, sir ! why, as soon as she was up, sir. 
Dekker and Webster, Northward Ho, t 3. 
It was late, it is true, but on a May evening even coun- 
try people keep up till eight or nine o'clock. 
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's lovers, xix. 
(6) In commotion, tumult, or revolt ; roused : as, to have 
one's temper up; to be up in arms. 
"lis treason to be up against the King. 
Marlowe, Edward II., i. 4. 
[Within.] Liberty, liberty! 
Duke. What, is the city up! 
Boats. They are up and glorious, 
And rolling like a storm they come. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, v. 1. 
Now my anger 's up, 
Ten thousand virgins kneeling at my feet, 
And with one general cry howling for mercy, 
Shall not redeem thee. 
Massinger, Unnatural Combat, ii. 1. 
Till up in Arms my Passions rose, 
And cast away her Yoke. 
Cowley, The Chronicle, St. 3. 
(c) In process of occurrence or performance ; in progress : 
as, what is up.' 
The hunt is up. Shale., Tit. And., ii. 2. 1. 
The woodland rings with laugh and shout, 
As if a hunt were up. 
Bryant, Song of Marion's Men. 
I'll finish my cigar in the betting-room, and hear what 's 
up. Jeafreson, Live it Down, xxiv. 
(a) In or into activity, operation, or use ; at work ; on ; 
going. 
Loud is the vale, the voice is up 
With which she speaks when storms are gone. 
Wordsworth, At Grasmere after a Storm. 
It will suffice just to name the meteorologic processes 
eventually set up in the Earth's atmosphere. 
H. Spencer, First Principles, 161. 
The Harriet Lane, not having steam up, could not draw 
near the scene of action, and confined herself to firing in 
the direction of the bridge. 
Comte de Paris, Civil War in America (trans.), II. 639. 
(e) In or into prominence or consideration; into or to the 
light: as, a missing article turns up; a question comes up 
for discussion ; to bring up a new topic of conversation. 
How dangerous it was to bring up an ill report upon this 
good laud, which God had found out and given to his peo- 
ple. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 400. 
His name was up through all the adjoining Provinces, 
eev'n to Italy and Home. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 
Whether it be possible for him, from his own imagina- 
tion, to ... raise up to himself the idea of that particular 
shade [previously unknown]. 
Hume, Human Understanding, ii. 
8. Onward to or from a specified time : as, an 
account up to date. 
We were tried friends : I from childhood up 
Had known him. Wordiworth, Excursion, 1. 
All men knew what the conduct of James had been up 
to that very time. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vii. 
9. To complete existence, maturity, or age: as, 
to spring or grow up; to bring up a child prop- 
erly. 
And so he dide, and put his owne sone, whiche was not 
fully of half yere age, to be norisshed vp with a-nother 
woman. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 112. 
Train up a child in the way he should go. Prov. xxii. 6. 
10. In or into a place of storage, retirement, 
concealment, etc., as for safe-keeping or as not 
being used or required at the time ; aside ; by : 
as, to put j> one's work for an hour or two ; to 
put up medicine in a bottle. 
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth. 
Mat vi. 19. 
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. 
Shak., Othello, i. 2. 59. 
Those highly-compounded nitrogenous molecules in 
which so much motion is locked up. 
H. Spencer, First Principles, 104. 
11. In or into a state of union, contraction, 
closeness of parts, etc. ; together ; close : as, to 
fold up a letter; to shrivel up; to draw up 
cloth upon a gathering-thread ; to shut up an 
umbrella ; to add up a column of figures. 
She starts, like one that spies an adder 
Wreathed up in fatal folds just in his way. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 878. 
To sum up the matter, a study of the statistics reveals 
the fact that no absolute participle occurs in Anglo-Saxon 
without having a prototype in Latin, either directly or in- 
directly. Amer. Jour. Philol., X. 344. 
12. To the required, desired, or uttermost 
point; to completion or fulfilment; wholly; 
thoroughly ; quite : as, to pay up one's debts ; 
to burn up the fuel ; to build up one's constitu- 
tion ; to use up one's patience. 
6658 
With marble greet ygrounde and myxt with lyme 
Polisshe alle nppe. thy werke in goodly time. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 15. 
The 
Love] 
He'll win up all the money in the town. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, i. 1. 
e Indians killed up all their own swine, so as Capt. 
11 had none. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 46. 
13. To or at an end; over: specifically, in 
Great Britain, noting adjournment or disso- 
lution : as, Parliament is up. 
When the tyme was ourtyrnyt, and the tru vp, 
Agamynon the grekys gedrit in the flld. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7207. 
That shall be according as you are in the Mind after your 
Month is up. 
X. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 446. 
The court Is up i. e., it does not now sit. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 11. 
14f. Open. 
His door is uppe. 
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales (F), 1. 616 (ed. Skeat). 
[Up is often used ellipticallv for go up, come up, rise up, 
stand up, speak up, and similar phrases in which the verb 
is omitted ; and with with following, it has the effect of a 
transitive verb. In provincial or vulgar speech the adverb 
so usnl is sometimes inflected as a verb. 
I will up, saith the Lord. Ps. xii. 6 (Psalter). 
Up with my tent there ! here will I lie to-night ! 
Shak., Rich. HI., v. 3. 7. 
The true-bred gamester up afresh, and then 
Falls to't again. Quarlee, Emblems, ii. 14. 
She up with her pattens, and beat out their brains. 
The Farmer's Old Wife (Child's Ballads, VIII. 258). 
So saying, she up* with her brawny arm, and gave Susy 
such a douse on the side of her head as left her fast asleep 
for an hour and upward. Brooke, Fool of Quality, 1. 134.] 
All up with. See all. 
I saw that it was all up with our animals. Weak as I 
was myself, I was obliged to walk, as my ox could not 
carry me up the steep inclination. 
Sir S. W. Baker, Heart of Africa, p. 259. 
Hard up. See hard, adv. to back, ball, bear up. 
See the verbs. To bear up or put up tile helm, to 
move the tiller toward the upper or windward side of a 
vessel. 
Captaine Ratliffe (Captaine of the Pinnace) rather de- 
sired to beare vp the hetme to returne for England then 
make further search. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith't True Travels, 1. 150. 
To beat, blow, bring, come, cut, do, draw, fire, 
flush, get, give, etc., up. See the verbs. To have up, 
to bring before a magistrate or court of justice. 
I'll have you up for assault. Farrar. 
TO hitch, hold, hush up. See the verbs. To look up, 
to improve in health, value, etc. : as, the property seems 
to be looking up. See also looki, v. t. [Colloq.] Tomake, 
pull, put, tear, etc., up. See the verbs.- To up stick, 
to pack up ; make ready to go away. [Slang.] 
I followed the cattle-tracks till I came to the great Bil- 
lebong where they were fishing ; and I made them up stick 
and take me home. 
H. Kingsley, Hillyars and Burtons, xxviii. 
Up and down, (a) In a vertical position or direction ; 
upright : in nautical use said of the chain when the ship 
is directly over the anchor. (6) Here and there ; to and 
fro ; back and forth ; one way and another. 
But hit was kept alway with a dragoun, 
And many other merveils, up and doun. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1431. 
And the Lord said unto Satan: From whence comest 
thou? And Satan . . . said: From going to and fro in the 
earth, and from walking up and down in it Job ii. 2. 
There are some Sycophants here that idolize him [the 
Cardinal], and I blush to hear what profune Hyperboles arc 
printed up and down of him. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 44. 
Mem. Lloyd had, about the beginning of the civill 
warres, a MS. of this Saint's concerning Chymistrey, and 
sayes that there are severall MSS. of his up and downe in 
England. Aubrey, Lives (Saint Dunstan). 
(ct) In every particular ; completely ; wholly ; exactly ; 
just 
He [Phocion] was cuen Socrates vp and downe in this 
polnte and behalfe, that no man eucr sawe hym either 
laughe or weepe. 
Udatt, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 324. (Dames.) 
The mother's mouth up and down, up and down. 
Middleton, Chaste Maid, ill. 2. 
(d) Downright; bluntly; without mincing matters; "with- 
out gloves ": as, to handle a matter up and down; to talk 
up and down: sometimes used adjectively : as, to be up 
and down with a person. [Colloq.] 
Talk about coddling ! it 's little we get o' that, the way 
the Lord fixes things in this world, dear knows. He 's 
pretty up and down with us, by all they tell us. You 
must take things right off, when they're goin'. Ef you 
don't, so much the worse for you ; they won't wait for you. 
H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 240. 
Up to. (a) As high as ; as far advanced as ; equal to. See 
defs. 4, 5, 6. (b) Ou the point of doing ; about to do ; 
planning ; engaged in. [Colloq.] 
"Wot are you up to, old feller?" asked Mr. Bailey, 
with . . . graceful rakishness. He was quite the man- 
about-town of the conversation. 
Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxvi. 
"Here you are, you little minx," said Miss Asphyxia 
" What are you up to now? Come, the waggin's waiting." 
B. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 124. 
Then he [King James II.] signified me to kneel, which 
I did, . . . and then he gave me a little tap very nicely 
upas 
upon my shoulder before I knew what he was up to, and 
said, "Arise, Sir John Bidd !" 
R. D. lilackmore, Lorna Doone, Ixviii. 
Up to snuff, to the ears, to the elbows, to the hilt. 
See mufl, earl, etc. Up to the knocker, up to the 
door, reaching the desired standard ; good ; excellent. 
[Slang.] 
II. prep. 1. Upward or aloft in or on; to, 
toward, near, or at the top of: as, to climb up 
a tree. 
The wedercoc thet is ope the steple. 
Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 180. 
As you go up the stairs into the lobby. 
Shak., Hamlet, iv. 3. 39. 
A voice replied, far up the height, 
Excelsior ! Longfellow, Excelsior. 
Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat, 
High in her chamber up a tower to the east 
Guarded the sacred shield of Lancelot. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
2. To, toward, or at the source, head, center, or 
important part of: as, to walk up town ; often, 
toward the interior of (a region) : as, the ex- 
plorers went up country. 
Up Fish Street ! down Saint Magnus 1 Corner ! 
Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iv. 8. 1. 
The author put off at dawn, from a French ship of war, 
in a small boat with a handful of men, to row up a river 
on the coast of Anam. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 656. 
The man who abandoned a farm up the Hudson, which 
had been in the family for generations, and came to New 
York without having any particular vocation in view, . . . 
was a type of a large class. The Century, XL. 634. 
3f. Upon or on (in many senses). 
A glose ope the sautere. 
Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 187. 
Helpes hastily hende men i hote, vp sour liues ! 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2378. 
I yow forbede up peyne of deeth. 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 753. 
Up a stump, up a tree. See <ump, tree. Up hill 
and down dale. SeefciHi. 
up (up), a. and n. [(up, adv.] I. a. Inclining 
or tending up; going up; upward: as, an up 
grade ; an up train ; an up beat in music ; an 
up bow in violin-playing. 
No sooner were we on up-grades than I exhausted my- 
self by my vigorous back-pedalling. 
J, and E. R. Pennell, Canterbury Pilgrimage on a Tricycle. 
Up-bow mark, in music for the violin, a sign, v, indicat- 
ing that a note or phrase is to be played with an up bow. 
II. n. Used in the phrase ups and downs, rises 
and falls; alternate states of prosperity and 
the contrary ; vicissitudes. 
A mixture of a town-hall and an hospital ; not to men- 
tion the bad choice of the situation in such a country ; it 
is all ups that should be downs. Walpole, Letters, II. 464. 
Every man who has seen the world, and has had his ups 
and downs in life, . . . must have frequently experienced 
the truth of this doctrine. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 3. 
Life is chequer'd ; a patchwork of smiles and of frowns ; 
We value its ups, let us muse on its downs. 
F. Locker, Piccadilly. 
TJ. P. An abbreviation of United Presbyterian. 
up-and-down (up'and-down'), a. Plain; direct; 
unceremonious; downright; positive. Com- 
pare up and down, under up, adv. [Colloq.] 
Miss Debby was a well-preserved, up-and-down, posi- 
tive, cheery, sprightly maiden lady of an age lying some- 
where in the indeterminate region between forty and 
sixty. B. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 291. 
upanishad (6-pan'i-shad), n. [Skt.] In San- 
skrit lit., a name given to a series of treatises of 
theosophic and philosophic contents. They are 
of different dates. They exhibit the earliest attempts of 
the Hindu mind to penetrate into the mysteries of crea- 
tion and existence. 
An upanishad is a passage of more philosophic or the- 
osophic character, an excursus into a higher and freer re- 
gion of thought, away from the details of the ceremonial 
and their exposition. 
Whitney, Amer. Jour. Philol., VII. 1. 
upas (u'pas), n. [= F. upas, < Malay (Java) 
upas, poison; in the Celebes and Philippine Isl- 
ands ipo or hipo.] 1. The poisonous sap of 
different trees of the Malayan and Philippine 
Islands, more or less iised for arrow-poison. The 
upas-antiar is yielded by the antiar or upas-tree. (See def . 
2 and antiar.) The upa tieute, or upa* radja, is from the 
chettik or tjettek, Strychnos Tieute, one of the strychnine- 
trees. 
2. The tree Anlinrix f.rtrr/ria, one of the larg- 
est Javanese trees, having a cylindrical stem 60 
or 70 feet high below the branches. Upon incision 
a poisonous milky juice flows from the trunk, concreting 
into a gum, which is mixed with the seed of Capsicum 
frutescens and various aromatic substances to form one 
kind of arrow-poison. The action of the poison is first 
purgative and emetic, then narcotic, destroying life by 
tetanic convulsions. Fable invests this tree with a deadly 
influence upon whatever conies under its branches. It is 
true that when the tree is felled or the bark extensively 
wounded it exhales an effluvium producing cutaneous 
eruptions; otherwise the upas may be approached and 
ascended like other trees. See Antiaris and sack-tree. 
