uprear 
uprear (up-rer'), . t. To rear up; raise. 
She doth vprear 
Her self e vpon her feet. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 36. 
The distant mountains, that uprear 
Their solid bastions to the skies. 
Longfellow, The Ladder of St. Augustine. 
upridge (up-rij'), v. t. To raise up in ridges or 
extended lines. Cowper, Odyssey, xix. [Rare.] 
upright (up'rit, formerly also up-rit'), a. and n. 
[< ME. upriht. uprigt, oprigt, < AS. upriht (= D. 
opregt = MLG. upreeht, upricht = OHG. MHG. 
ufreht, G. aufrecht = Icel. upprettr = Sw. up- 
priitt = Dan. opret), straight up, erect, < up-, 
up, + riht, straight, right: see right.'] I. a. 
1. Erect; vertical. 
And sodeynly he was yslayn to-nyght, 
Fordronke, as he sat on his bench upryght. 
Chaucer, Pardoner s Tale, 1. 212. 
Upright as the palm-tree. Jer. x. 5. 
2. Erect on one's feet ; hence, erect as a human 
being; in general, having the longest axis ver- 
tical : as, an upright boiler. 
And there ben othere that han Crestes upon hire Hedes ; 
and thei gon upon hire Feet upright. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 290. 
Whoever tasted lost his upright shape. 
Milton, Comus, 1. 52. 
3. Erected; pricked up; standing out straight 
from the body. 
Their ears upright. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
With chattering teeth and bristling hair upright. 
Dryden, Theodore and Honoria, 1. 145. 
4. Adhering to rectitude ; not deviating from 
correct moral principles ; of inflexible honesty. 
That man was perfect and upright, and one that feared 
God, and eschewed evil. Job i. 1. 
I shall be found as upright in my dealings as any wo- 
man in Smithfteld. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, ii. 1. 
5. In accord with what is right; honest; just. 
It is very meet 
The Lord Bassanio live an upright life. 
Shak., M. of V., iii. 5. 79. 
6f. Well adjusted or disposed; in good condi- 
tion; right. 
If it should please God y e one should faile (as God 
forbid), yet y other would keepe both recconings, and 
things uprighte. 
Sherley, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 270. 
Bolt upright, straight upright. 
Then she sat bolt upright. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 266. 
Upright man, a chief rogue ; a leader among thieves. 
[Thieves' cant.] 
An Vpright man is one that goeth wytli the trunchion 
of a staffe, which staffe they cal a Filtchman. This man 
is of so much authority that, meeting with any of his pro- 
fession, he may cal them to accompt, & commaund a share 
or snap vnto him selfe of al that they haue gained by their 
trade in one moneth. Fraternity of Vacabonds (1561). 
Upright piano. See pianoforte. Upright steam-en- 
gine. Same as vertical steam-engine. See steam-engine. 
= Syn. L Plumb. 4 and 5. Just, Rightful, etc. (see riffht- 
eoui\ honorable, conscientious, straightforward, true. 
II. n. 1. Something standing erect or ver- 
tical. Specifically, ia building (a) A principal piece of 
timber placed vertically, and serving to support rafters. 
(b) The newel of a staircase. 
2. In arch., the elevation or orthography of a 
building. Gwilt. [Rare.] 3. A molding-ma- 
chine of which the mandrel is perpendicular. 
E. B. Knight. 4. An upright pianoforte. 
upright (up'rit, formerly also up-rit'), adv. [< 
ME. upright, < AS. uprihte, upright, < upriht, 
upright: see upright, a.] 1. Vertically. 
Ye wonderful growing and swelling of the water vp- 
right ... is to ye height of a huge mountaine. 
Webbe, Travels, p. 22. 
You are now within a foot 
Of th' extreme verge. For all beneath the moon 
Would I not leap upright. Shak., Lear, iv. 6. 27. 
2f. Flat on the back ; horizontally and with 
the face upward. 
The corps lay in the floor upright. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 768. 
He flll to the erthe vp-right. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 457. 
I throwe a man on his backe or upright, so that his face 
is upwarde. Je renuerse. Palsgrave. 
And Mab, his merry Queen, by night 
Bestrides young folks that lie upright . . . 
(In elder times the mare that hight), 
Which plagues them out of measure. 
Drayton, Nymphidia. 
uprighteouslyt (up-ri'tyus-li) adv. [< upright 
+ -eous, after righteous."] Righteously; justly; 
uprightly. Shak., M. for M., iii. 1. 205. 
uprightly (up'rlt-li), adv. In an upright man- 
ner, (a) Vertically, (b) With strict observance of rec- 
titude; honestly and justly: as, to live uprightly. 
I deal not uprightly in buying and selling. 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc. , 1853), II. 261. 
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uprightness (up'rit-nes), n. The character or 
condition of being upright, (a) Ercctness ; verti- 
calness. Waller. 
Guards walked their post witli a stiffness and upright- 
ness that was astonishing. The Century, XXIX. 109. 
(6) Moral integrity; honesty and equity in principle or 
practice ; conformity to rectitude and justice. 
The truly upright man is inflexible in his uprightness. 
Bp. Atterburi/. 
= Syn. (b) Integrity, Honor, etc. (see honesty'), fairness, 
principle, trustworthiness, worth. 
uprise (up-riz'), v. i.; pret. uprose, pp. uprisen, 
ppr. uprising. [< ME. uprisen; < up- + rise: 
see rise 1 .] 1. To rise up, as from bed or from 
a seat; get up; rise. 
Uprose the virgin with the morning light. Pope. 
2. To ascend, as above the horizon: literally 
or figuratively. 
Floures fresshe, honouren ye this day ; 
For, when the sonne uprist, then wol ye sprede. 
Chaucer, Complaint of Mars, 1. 4. 
Nor dim, nor red, like God's own head 
The glorious sun uprist. Coleridge. 
With what an awful power 
I saw the buried past up-rise, 
And gather in a single hour 
Its ghost-like memories! 
Whittier, Mogg Megone. 
3. To ascend, as a hill; slope upward. Ten- 
nyson, Vision of Sin, v. 4. To swell; well up; 
rise in waves. 
At thy call 
Uprises the great deep. 
Bryant, A Forest Hymn. 
5. To spring up ; come into being or percep- 
tion; be made or caused. 
Uprose a great shout from King Olaf's men. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 287. 
uprise (up'riz or up-riz'), n. [< uprise, r.] If. 
Uprising. 
The sun's uprise. Shak., Tit. And., iii. 1. 1B9. 
2. An increase in size; a swelling; a protuber- 
ance. 
Successive stages may be seen from the first gentle up- 
rise to an unsightly swelling of the whole stone. 
Geikie, Geol. Sketches, viii. 
3. Rise; development; advance; augmenta- 
tion, as of price or value. [Colloq.] 
uprising (up-ri'zing), n. [< ME. uprisinge, opris- 
inge (= MLG. oprisinge) ; verbal n. of uprise, v.~] 
1. The act of rising up, as from below the ho- 
rizon, from a bed or seat, or from the grave. 
The whiche Ston the 3 Maries sawen turnen upward, 
whan thei comen to the Sepulcre, the Day of his Resur- 
rexioun ; and there founden an Aungelle, that tolde hem 
of cure Lordes uprysynge from Dethe to Lyve. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 91. 
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising. 
Ps. cxxxix. 2. 
2. Ascent; acclivity; rising. 
Was that the king, that spurr'd his horse so hard 
Against the steep uprising of the hill? 
Shak., L. L. L., iv. 1. 2. 
3. A riot; an emeute; a rebellion; insurrec- 
tion ; popular revolt. 
Such tumults and uprisings. 
Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Hen. I., an. 1115. 
4. The ceremonies connected with the recov- 
ery and reappearance in society of a lady of 
rank after the birth of a child. Compare lying- 
down. 
upristt, n. [< ME. uprist, opriste; < uprise, .] 1. 
Uprising. 
In the gardin, at the sonne upriste, 
She walketh up and doun. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 193. 
2. The resurrection. 
Jhesus seide, I am upriste and lif. 
Cursor Mundi, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab., f. 88. (Halliwell.) 
uproar (up-ror'), v. [< D. *oproeren (= G. auf- 
riihren = Sw. upprora = Dan. oprore), stir up, 
< op, up, + roeren, stir: see up and rear*. No 
connection with roar. Cf. uproar, n.~] I. trans. 
To stir up to tumult; throw into confusion; 
disturb. [Rare.] 
Uproar the universal peace. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 3. 99. 
II. intrans. To make an uproar ; cause a dis- 
turbance. [Bare.] 
The man Danton was not prone to show himself, to act 
or uproar for his own safety. 
Carlyle, French Rev., III. vi. 2. 
uproar (up'ror), n. [Early mod. E. uprore; < 
D. oproer (= MLG. upror, G. aufruhr = Sw. 
uppror = Dan. opror}, tumult, sedition, revolt, 
< oproeren, stir up: see uproar, 0.] Great 
tumult; violent disturbance and noise; bustle 
and clamor; confusion; excitement. 
To haue all the worlde in an vprore, and vnquieted with 
warres. J. Udall, On Mark, Pref. 
upsees 
The Jews who believed not ... set all the city on an 
uproar. Acts xvii. 5. 
There was a greate uprore in London that the rebel! 
armie quartering at Whitehall would plundre the Citty. 
Evelyn, Diary, April 26, 1648. 
Many of her acts had been unusual, but excited no up- 
roar, lilarg. Fuller, Woman in 19th Cent., p. 39. 
uproarious (up-r6r'i-us),. [< uproar + -i-ous.~\ 
Making or accompanied by a great uproar, 
noise, or tumult; tumultuous; noisy; loud. 
Moore. 
uproariously (up-ror'i-us-li), adv. In an up- 
roarious manner ; with great noise and tumult ; 
clamorously. 
uproariousness (up-ror'i-us-nes), n. The state 
or character of being uproarious, or noisy and 
riotous. 
uproll (up-i'61'), v. t. To roll up. Milton, P. L., 
vii. 291. 
uproot (up-rof), v. t. To root up; tear up by 
the roots, or as if by the roots ; remove utterly ; 
eradicate; extirpate. 
uprootal (up-ro'tal), 11. [< uproot + -a?.] The 
act of uprooting, or the state of being uprooted. 
[Rare.] 
His mind had got confused altogether with trouble and 
weakness and the shock of uprootal. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Curate in Charge, xviii. 
uprouse (up-rouz'), * To rouse up; rouse 
from sleep; awake; arouse. Shak., R. and J., 
ii. 3. 40. 
uprun (up-run'), v. t. [< ME. uprinnen; < up 
+ riot 1 .] To run up ; ascend. [Rare.] 
The yonge sonne, 
That in the ram is four degrees upronne. 
Chaucer, Squire's Tale, 1. 876. 
He gave me to bring forth and rear a son 
Of matchless might, who like a thriving plant 
Upran to manhood, while his lusty growth 
I nourish''! as the husbandman his vine. 
Cowper, Iliad, xviii. 
uprush (up-rush'), v. i. To rush upward. 
Soufhey, Thalaba, xii. 
uprush (up'rush), n. [< uprush, v.'] A rush 
upward. 
These uprushes of most intensely heated gas from the 
prominences which are traceable round the edge of the 
sun. Stokes, Lects. on Light, p. 237. 
The ideas of M. Faye were, on two fundamental points, 
contradicted by the Kew investigators. He held spots to 
be regions of uprush and of heightened temperature. 
A. M. Clerke, Astron. in 19th Cent, p. 201. 
Upsee-Dutcht (up'se-duch'), adv. [Also upsie 
Dutch, upsey Dutch, npse-Dutch; < D. op zijn 
Duitsch, in the Dutch, i. e. German, fashion: 
op, upon, in; eijn = G. sein, his, its; Duitsch, 
Dutch, i. e. German : see Dutch. Cf. upsee- 
English, upsee-Freese. Upsee in this and the 
following words has been conjectured to mean 
'a kind of heady beer,' qualified by the name 
of the place where it was brewed. For the 
allusion to German drinking, cf. carouse, ult. < 
G. gar am, ' all out.'] In the Dutch fashion or 
manner: as, to drink upset-Dutch (to drink in 
the Dutch manner that is, to drink deeply so 
as to be drunk). 
I do not like the dulness of your eye ; 
It hath a heavy cast, 'tis upsee Dutch. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 4. 
Upsee-Englisht (up'se-ing'glish), adv. [Found 
as upsey-English ; < D. op zijn Engelsch, in the 
English fashion ; cf. upsee-Dutch.~] In the Eng- 
lish manner. 
Prig. Thou and Ferret, 
And Ginks, to sing the song ; I for the structure, 
Which is the bowl. 
Hig. Which must be upsey-English, 
Strong, lusty London beer. 
Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, iv. 4. 
Upsee-Freeset (up'se-fres'), adv. [Also upse- 
Frceze; < D. op zijn Friesch, in the Friesian 
fashion ; cf . upsee-Dutch."] In the Friesian man- 
ner. 
This valiant pot-leech that, upon his knees, 
Has drunk a thousand pottles upse-Freezt. 
John Taylor. 
upsee-freesyt (up'se-fre"zi), . Drunk; tipsy. 
Bacchus, the god of brew'd wine and sugar, grand pa- 
tron of rob-pots, upsy-freesy tipplers, and super-naculum 
topers. Maesinger, Virgin-Martyr, ii. 1. 
upseek (up-sek'), . . ; pret. and pp. upsought, 
ppr. iipseeking. To seek or strain upward. 
Southey, Thalaba, xii. 
upseest (up'sez), adv. [< upsee-Dutch, upsee- 
Freese, etc., misunderstood : see upsee-Dutch.'] 
Same as upsee-Dutch. 
Yet whoop, Barnaby! off with thy liquor, 
Drink upsees out, and a fig for the vicar. 
Scott, L. of the L., vi. 5. 
