upsend 
upsend ( up-smid' ), r. t. To send, cast, or throw 
up. <'i>irpi-r. Hind, xviii. [Kare.] 
upset (up-set'), r. [< MK. H/wlti-ii, get up (= 
Ml), njisi Hi a, sot up, proposo or fix, an the price 
of goods, 1). oz:rtti-H,m-\ up, raise, ruise the price 
of, venture, = G. aufnetzcn, set up, compose); < 
uj> + e(i.] I. trans. If. To set or place up. 
Now is he in the get 1 with autlu on inaat upsette. 
Rob. of Brunne, p. 70. 
2. To overturn; overthrow; overset, as a boat 
or a carriage ; hence, figuratively, to throw into 
confusion; interfere with; spoil: as, to upset 
one's plans. 
I have observed, however, that your passionate little 
men, like small boat* with large sails, are easily upset or 
blown out of their course. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 244. 
She had sallied forth determined somehow to upiet the 
tit nut ion, just as one gives a shake purposely to a bundle 
of spillikins on the chance of more favorable openings. 
M n. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere, L it 
3. To put out of the normal state; put in dis- 
order; of persons, to discompose completely; 
make nervous or irritable; overcome. 
Eleanor answered only by a sort of spasmodic gurgle in 
her throat .She was a good deal upsrt, aa people say. 
You needn't mind if your house Is upset, for none of UB 
Is mini n 1 in, havtn' only intended to see you to your door. 
The Century, XXXV. 624. 
4. To shorten and thicken by hammering, as a 
heated piece of metal set up endwise: said 
also of the shortening and resetting of the tire 
of a wheel. Wire ropes are upset by doubling up the 
ends of the wires after they have been passed through the 
small end of a conical collar. After upsetting they are 
welded Into a solid mass or soldered together. 
II. intrans. To be overturned or upset. 
Upsetting thermometer. See thertnometer. 
upset (up-set' ),. [(upset, p.] The act of up- 
setting, overturning, or severely discomposing, 
or the state of being upset ; an overturn : as, 
the carriage had an upset; the news gave me 
quite an upset. 
Him his sermon ballasts from utter upnr.t. 
W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 20. 
If the Constitution is to be experimentally upset to see 
how the upset works, the thing upset will never bo set 
up again. The Spectator, No. 3035, p. 1134. 
upset (up'set), p. a. [Pp. of upset, v., prob. 
after I), use.] Set up; fixed; determined. 
Upset price, the price at which any subject, a> lands, 
tenements, or goods, la exposed to sale by auction ; a price 
set by the exposer below which the thing Is not to be sold. 
- Upset rate, valuation, etc. Same as upset price. 
upsetment (up-set'ment), n. [< upset + -meat.] 
Upsetting; overturn." [Rare.] 
upsetter (up-set'er), n. One who or that which 
upsets; also, one who or that which sets up; 
specifically, a tool used in upsetting a tire. 
upsetting (up -set 'ing), a. Assuming; con- 
ceited; uppish. [Scotch.] 
upshoot (up-shSf), v. i. To shoot upward. 
Trees upthooting high. Sperwer, F. Q., II. xll. 68. 
upshoot (up'shat), n. That which shoots up 
or separates from a main stem; an offshoot. 
Nature, XLI. 228. [Bare.] 
upshot (up'shot), n. Final issue; conclusion; 
end ; consummation : as, the upshot of the mat- 
ter. Shah., T. N., iv. 2. 76. 
upside (up'sid), n. The upper side ; the upper 
part. 
This glass Is in such a horrid light 1 I don't seem to 
have but half a face, and I can't tell which is the up-side 
of that ! Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwalte, v. 
To be upsides with, to be even with ; be quits with. Scott. 
[Scutch and prov. Bug.] Upside down. [Historically, 
an accom. form, as if up + ufcl 4- dvwn%, of upsedoicn, 
npsodoten: see upeodown. Cf. topsideturry.] With the 
upper part undermost, literally or figuratively; hence, in 
complete disorder. 
A burning torch that 's turned upside down. 
fihali., Pericles, II. _>. 32. 
upside (up'sid), adv. On the upper side. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
I'eople whose ages are upside of forty. 
fi. and Q., 7th Her., X. 73. 
upsiloid (u'psi-loid), a. Same as hypsiloid. 
The early condition of the paroccipital fissure as an 
upsitoid depressed line with lateral branches. 
Buck's Handbook of Med. Science*, p. 156. 
upsittingt (up'sit'ing), n. The sitting up of a 
woman to see her friends after her confinement ; 
also 1 , the feast held on such an occasion. 
Tin- jest shall be a stock to maintain us and our pewfel- 
lows in laughing at christenings, cryings out, ana upsit- 
tings this twelve month. 
Deleter and Webster, Westward Ho, v. 1. 
upskipt (up'skip), n. Aii upstart. 
Put it not to the hearing of these velvet coats, these "/'- 
skit*. Lalimer, ad Sermon I'i'f. Edw. VI., 1:49. 
6663 
upsnatch (up-snach'), r. (. To seize or snatch 
up. It. Kilwards, Damon and Pythias. [Rare.] 
upsoar (up-sor'), v. i. To soar aloft; mount 
up. 1'ope, Odyssey, xv. 556. [Rare.] 
upsodownt, nili: [< ME. up go down, up so doun, 
iil> noo doune, up se doun, up stca doune, lit. ' up 
as down," < up + so 1 + down?. Hence the 
later accom. form upside down."] Upside down ; 
topsyturvy. 
Shortly turned was al up-no-doun, 
Bothe habit and eek dlsposicloun 
Of him, this woful lovere, daun Arclte. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 619. 
To Turne op to down ; Euerttre. Calh. Any., p. 897. 
upsolvet (up-solv'), v. t. To solve; explain. 
You are a scholar ; uptolve me that, now. 
/;. J onion. Every Han In his Humour, I. 3. 
upspeart (up-sper'), v. I. intrans. To shoot up- 
ward like a spear. [Rare.] 
The bents 
And coarser gnu, uptpeariny o'er the rest 
Coirper, Winter Morning Walk, 1. 23. 
II. trans. To root up; destroy. [Dubious.] 
Adam by hys pryde ded Paradyse vpspeare. 
Bp. Bale, Enterlude of Julian Bapt. (1638). (Dacitl.) 
upspring (up-spring'), r. t. [< ME. vpspringen; 
' up + spring.] To spring up; shoot up; rise. 
Seynt Valeutyne ! a foul thus herde I singe 
Upon thy day, er sonne gan upspringe. 
Chaucer, Complaint of Han, 1. 14. 
On his feet upipringing In a hurry. 
Hood, The Dead Bobbery. 
The lemon-grove 
In closest coverture uptpruny. 
Tennym/n, Arabian NighU. 
upspringt (up'spring), n. [< upspring, v.] 1. 
A vertical spring; a leap in the air. 
We Germans have no changes In our dances ; 
An almaln and an uptpring, that Is all. Chapman. 
2. An upstart; one suddenly exalted. Shak., 
Hamlet, i. 4. 9. 
upspurnerf (up-sper'ner), n. A spurner; a 
scoruer ; a despiser. 
Pompeius, that uptpurner of the erth. 
Joye, Expo*, of Daniel, Iv. 
up-stairs (up'starz'), prep. phr. as adv. In or 
to an upper story : as, to go up-stairs. 
up-stairs (up'starz), prep. phr. as a. and n. I. 
a. Pertaining or relating to an upper story or 
flat; being above stairs: as, an up-stairs room. 
II. n. All upper story ; that part of a build- 
ing which is above the ground floor. [Rare.] 
I was also present on the day when Ur. Coulomb gave 
the charge of the upstairs to our party and when he ex- 
posed himself audaciously. 
R. Hodgson, Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, III. 329. 
upstancht, upstauncht (up -stanch', up- 
stanch'), v. t. [ME. upstaunchett; < up + 
stanch 1 .] To stanch ; stop the flow of. Palla- 
dius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. 8.), p. 153. 
upstandt (up-stand'), r. i. [< ME. upstanden; 
< up + stand.] To stand up ; be erect ; rise. 
A dight ryne in provinciate manere, 
That like a bosshe upstonte, IIII armes make. 
Patladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. s.), p. 72. 
The kings of the earth upstand 
With power. Milton, ft. U. 
upstare (up-star'), r. t. To stare or stand on 
end; be erect or conspicuous ; bristle. [Rare.] 
The king's son, Ferdinand, 
With hair up-itarvng, . . . 
Wai the first man that leap'd. 
Shot., Tempest, L 2. 213. 
upstart (up-start'), . i. [< ME. upsterten, up- 
stirten; < up + start 1 .] To start or spring up 
suddenly. 
With that word upnirte the olde wyf. 
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 190. 
Her father's fiddler he came by, ... 
Upstarted her ghaist before his eye. 
The Bonny Bom o' London (Child's Ballads, II. 362). 
upstart (up'start), n. and a. [< upstart, v. Cf. 
upskip.] I. n. 1. One who or that which starts 
or springs up suddenly; specifically, a person 
who suddenly rises from a humble position to 
wealth, power, or consequence ; a parvenu. 
I think this u } *tart is old Talbot's ghost 
Shak., 1 Hen. VL, iv. 7. 87. 
A mere upttart, 
That has no pedigree, no house, no coat, 
No ensigns of a family 1 B. Jonson, Catiline, it. 1. 
If it seenie strange that the Turkish Religion (a newer 
vpttart) be declared before those former of the Pagans, etc. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 819. 
2. One who assumes a lofty or arrogant tone. 
3. A puddle made by the hoofs of horses 
in clayey ground. Hulliirell. [Prov. Eng.] 
4. The meadow-saffron, Cokhicuiit autumnale, 
upthrow 
whose flowers spring up suddenly without 
leaves. 
II. a. It. Starting up suddenly; <|ui<-kly 
rising. 
With upttart haire and staring eyes dismay. 
Spenter, . Q., 111. x. 64. 
2. Suddenly raised to prominence or conse- 
quence; parvenu: as, "a rave of upstart crea- 
tures," Milhm, P. L., ii. 834. 
New, vp-ttart Gods, of yester-dayes device. 
Syltetttr, tr. of Du BarUus Weeks, it, The Decay. 
An upntart Institution to totally unassisted by secnlar 
power and interest. Evelyn, True Religion, II. 128. 
3. Characteristic of a parvenu ; new and pre- 
tentious. 
Think you that we can brook this upstart nrldeT 
Marlowe, Edward the Second, L 4. 
The wronged landscape coldly stands aloof, 
Refusing friendship with the upttart roof. 
Lowell, Fltz Adam's Story. 
upstauncht, t>. ' See upstanch. 
upstay (up-sta'), r. t. To sustain; support. 
TOM, P. L., ix. 430. 
upstept (up-step'), v. i. To step up; move up- 
ward. Hynd Horn (Child's Bafiads. IV. 26). 
upstirt (up'ster), n. Commotion; tumult; in- 
surrection . Sir J. Cheke, The Hurt of Sedition. 
upstream (np-strem' ), t. i. To stream, flow, or 
name up: as, upstreaming flames. 
up-stream (up'strem'), prep. plir. as adr. To- 
ward the higher part of a stream ; against th 
current: as, to row up-stream. 
up-stream (up'strem), prep. phr. as a. [< up- 
stream, adv.] Of or pertaining to the upper part 
of a stream ; moving against the current. 
An uv-nlream wind Increases the surface resistance. 
CUD. Report on Hits. Kieer, 1861 (rep. 1870), p. 270. 
ap-8treet (up'stref), prep. phr. as adv. At or 
toward the higher part or upper end of a street. 
upsunt (up'sun), . The time during which the 
sun is above the horizon; the time between 
sunrise and sunset, f'ountaiiihall. (Imp. Diet.) 
upsurge (up-seri'), v. i. To surge up. The Cen- 
fry,XXVI. 130. [Rare.] 
upswarmt (up-swarm'), p. I. intrans. To rise 
in swarms ; swarm up. 
Upsvanning show'd 
On the high battlement their glltt'ring spean. 
Coirper, Iliad, xil. 
U. trans. To cause to rise in a swarm or 
swarms; raise in a swarm. Shak., 2 Hen. IV.. 
iv. 2. 30. 
upsway (up-swa'), r. t. To sway or swing up; 
brandish. [Rare.] 
That right-hand Giant 'gan hi. club uptvay. 
Scott, Vision of Don Roderick, The Vision, >t. 10. 
up-sweep (up'swep), n. A sweeping upward : 
as, the up-sweep of a curve ; the up-sweep of an 
arch. [Rare.] 
upswell (up-swel'), r. i. To swell up; rise up. 
Wordsworth, Ode, 1814. 
upsyturvyt (up-si-ter'vi), adr. [A variation of 
topsyturvy, substituting up for top.] Upside 
down; topsyturvy. [Rare.] 
There found I all was upsy tuny turn'd. 
Greene, James IV., Ill S. 
uptails-allt (up'talz-al), n. Confusion; riot; 
nence, revelers. (Davies.) 
uptake (up-tak'), r. t. 1. To take up; take 
into the hand. Spenser, F. Q., H. ii. 11. 2f. To 
succor; help. 
The right bond of my lust man uptoot thee. 
Wyclif, Isa. xll. 10. 
uptake (up'tak), . [< uptake, v.] 1. The act 
of taking up; lifting. 
To this ascensional movement (In cyclones] undoubtedly 
must be attributed the rain and cloud which we Hnd there 
rain near the centre, where the ascensional Impulse Is 
strongest ; cloud round the outside, where the uptake is 
lesa strong. Science, XI. 216. 
2. Perceptive power; apprehension; concep- 
tion: as, he is quick in tne uptake. Srott, Old 
Mortality, vii. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 3. 
The upcast pipe from the smoke-box of a steam- 
boiler, leading to the chimney Gleg at the up- 
take. See gleg\. 
uptakert (up-ta'ker), n. [M_E., < uptake + -erl.] 
A helper; a supporter, ll'yclif, Ps. Ixxxviii. 
uptear(up-tar'),r.f. To tear up. Milton, P. L., 
vi. 663. 
upthrow (up-thro'), v. t. To throw up; elevate. 
upthrow (up'thro), n. [< upthrtne, r.] An np- 
ueaval; an uplift: in minim/, the opposite of 
doWHthrouj. Where a fault has occurred which has been 
attended by an up-and-down movement of the rock on each 
side, the displacement in the upward direction U called the 
upthrov, and that In the downward direction the dnm- 
throtr. As a result of this motion, under great | 
