Upas
U´pas (u"pas), n. [Malay puhn-upas; puhn a tree + upas poison.]
1. (Bot.) A tree ( Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.
2. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is derived from the upas tree ( Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant ( Strychnos Tieute).

Upbar
Up•bar´, v. t.
1. To fasten with a bar. [R.]
2. To remove the bar or bards of, as a gate; to under. [Obs.] Spenser.

Upbear
Up•bear´, v. t. To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain. Spenser.
"One short sigh of breath, upbore Even to the seat of God." Milton.
"A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore." Pope.

Upbind
Up•bind´, v. t. To bind up. [R.] Collins.

Upblow
Up•blow´, v. t. To inflate. [Obs.] Spenser.

Upblow
Up•blow´, v. i. To blow up; as the wind upblows from the sea. [Obs.] Spenser.

Upbraid
Up•braid´ (up•brad"), v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Upbraided; p. pr. & vb. n. Upbraiding.] [OE. upbreiden; AS. upp up + bregdan to draw, twist, weave, or the kindred Icel. bregða to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid. See Up, and Braid, v. t.]
1. To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; — followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.
"And upbraided them with their unbelief." Mark xvi. 14.
"Vet do not Upbraid us our distress." Shak.
2. To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.
"Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done." Matt. xi. 20
"How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!" Sir P. Sidney.
3. To treat with contempt. [Obs.] Spenser.
4. To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; — with to before the person. [Obs.] Bacon.
Syn. — To reproach; blame; censure; condemn.

Upbraid
Up•braid´, v. i. To utter upbraidings. Pope.

Upbraid
Up•braid´, n. The act of reproaching; contumely. [Obs.] " Foul upbraid." Spenser.

Upbreak
Up•break´ (up•brak"), v. i. To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

Upbreak
Up´break (up"brak•), n. A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst. Mrs. Browning.

Upbreathe
Up•breathe´ (up•breth"), v. i. To breathe up or out; to exhale. [Obs.] Marston.

Upbreed
Up•breed´ (up•bred"), v. t. To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed.

Upbrought
Up•brought´, a. Brought up; educated. [Obs.] Spenser.

Upbuoyance
Up•buoy´ance, n. The act of buoying up; uplifting. [R.] Coleridge.

Upburst
Up´burst, n. The act of bursting upwards; a breaking through to the surface; an upbreak or uprush; as an upburst of molten matter.

Upcast
Up´cast, a. Cast up; thrown upward; as with upcast eyes. Addison.

Upcast
Up´cast, n.
1. (Bowling) A cast; a throw. Shak.
2. (Mining.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; — distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft.
3. An upset, as from a carriage. [Scot.]
4. A taunt; a reproach. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Upcast
Up•cast´, v. t.
1. To cast or throw up; to turn upward. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. [Scot.]

Upcaught
Up´caught, a. Seized or caught up. " She bears upcaught a mariner away." Cowper.

Upcheer
Up•cheer´, v. t. To cheer up. Spenser.

Upclimb
Up•climb´, v. t. & i. To climb up; to ascend.
"Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse." Tennyson.

Upcoil
Up•coil´, v. t. & i. To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.

Upcountry
Up´coun•try, adv. In an upcountry direction; as to live upcountry. [Colloq.]

Upcountry
Up´coun•try, a. Living or situated remote from the seacoast; as an upcountry residence. [Colloq.] — n. The interior of the country. [Colloq.]

Upcurl
Up•curl´, v. t. To curl up. [R.] Tennyson.

Updive
Up•dive´, v. i. To spring upward; to rise. [R.] Davies (Microcosmos).

Updraw
Up•draw´, v. t. To draw up. [R.] Milton.

Upend
Up•end´, v. t. To end up; to set on end, as a cask.

Upeygan
U•pey•gan´, n. (Zoöl.) The borele.

Upfill
Up•fill´, v. t. To fill up. [Obs.]

Upflow
Up•flow´, v. i. To flow or stream up. Southey.

Upflung
Up•flung´, a. Flung or thrown up.

Upgather
Up•gath´er, v. t. To gather up; to contract; to draw together. [Obs.]
"Himself he close upgathered more and more." Spenser.

Upgaze
Up•gaze´, v. i. To gaze upward. Byron.

Upgive
Up•give´, v. t. To give up or out. [Obs.]

Upgrow
Up•grow´, v. i. To grow up. [R.] Milton.

Upgrowth
Up´growth, n. The process or result of growing up; progress; development.
"The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy." J. R. Green.

Upgush
Up´gush, n. A gushing upward. Hawthorne.

Upgush
Up•gush´, v. i. To gush upward.

Uphaf
Up•haf´, obs. imp. of Upheave. Chaucer.

Uphang
Up•hang´, v. t. To hang up. Spenser.

Uphasp
Up•hasp´, v. t. To hasp or faster up; to close; as sleep uphasps the eyes. [R.] Stanyhurst.

Upheaped
Up´heaped, a. Piled up; accumulated.
"God, which shall repay all with upheaped measure." Udall.

Upheaval
Up•heav´al, n. The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth’s crust. Lubbock.

Upheave
Up•heave´, v. t. To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise. Milton.

Upheld
Up•held´, imp. & p. p. of Uphold.

Uphill
Up•hill´, adv. Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as to walk uphill.

Uphill
Up´hill, a.
1. Ascending; going up; as an uphill road.
2. Attended with labor; difficult; as uphill work.

Uphilt
Up•hilt´, v. t. To thrust in up to the hilt; as to uphilt one’s sword into an enemy. [R.] Stanyhurst.

Uphoard
Up•hoard´, v. t. To hoard up. [Obs.] Shak.

Uphold
Up•hold´, v. t.
1. To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
"The mournful train with groans, and hands upheld. Besought his pity." Dryden.
2. To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain.
"Honor shall uphold the humble in spirit." Prov. xxix 3.
"Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone upholds the day." Shak.
3. To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as to uphold a person in wrongdoing.

Upholder
Up•hold´er, n. [ Up + holder. Cf. Upholsterer.]
1. A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. [Obs.]
2. An undertaker, or provider for funerals. [Obs.]
"The upholder, rueful harbinger of death." Gay.
3. An upholsterer. [Obs.]
4. One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.

Upholsterer
Up•hol´ster•er, n. [A substitution for older upholder, in OE., broker, tradesman, and formerly also written upholster, upholdster. See Upholder, and - ster.] One who provides hangings, coverings, cushions, curtains, and the like; one who upholsters. Upholsterer bee. (Zoöl.) See Poppy bee, under Poppy.

Uphroe
U´phroe, n. (Naut.) Same as Euphroe.

Upland
Up´land, n.
1. High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; — opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.
2. The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns. [Obs.]

Upland
Up´land, a.
1. Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.
"Sometimes, with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite." Milton.
2. Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished. [Obs.] " The race of upland giants." Chapman. Upland moccasin. (Zoöl.) See Moccasin. — Upland sandpiper, or Upland plover (Zoöl.), a large American sandpiper ( Bartramia longicauda) much valued as a game bird. Unlike most sandpipers, it frequents fields and uplands. Called also Bartramian sandpiper, Bartram’s tattler, field plover, grass plover, highland plover, hillbird, humility, prairie plover, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander. — Upland sumach (Bot.), a North American shrub of the genus Rhus ( Rhus glabra), used in tanning and dyeing.

Uplandish
Up•land´ish, a. Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands. [Obs.] Chapman.
2. Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized. [Obs.]
"His presence made the rudest peasant melt, That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt." Marlowe.

Uplay
Up•lay´, v. t. To hoard. [Obs.] Donne.

Uplead
Up•lead´, v. t. To lead upward. [Obs.]

Uplean
Up•lean´, v. i. To lean or incline upon anything. [Obs.] Spenser.

Uplift
Up•lift´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Uplifting.] To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock. Cowper.
"Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed." Milton.

Uplift
Up´lift, n. (Geol.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.

Up-line
Up´-line, n. (Railroad) A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the track upon which up-trains run. See Up- train. [Eng.]

Uplook
Up•look´, v. i. To look or gaze up. [Obs.]

Upmost
Up´most, a. [Cf. Uppermost.] Highest; topmost; uppermost. Spenser. Dryden.

Upon
Up•on´, prep. [AS. uppan, uppon; upp up + on, a. , on. See Up, and On.] On; — used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable. "Upon an hill of flowers." Chaucer.
"Our host upon his stirrups stood anon." Chaucer.
"Thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar." Ex. xxix. 21.
"The Philistines be upon thee, Samson." Judg. xvi. 9.
"As I did stand my watch upon the hill." Shak.
"He made a great difference between people that did rebel upon wantonness, and them that did rebel upon want." Bacon.
"This advantage we lost upon the invention of firearms." Addison.
"Upon the whole, it will be necessary to avoid that perpetual repetition of the same epithets which we find in Homer." Pope.
"He had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow." Sir. W. Scott.
"Philip swore upon the Evangelists to abstain from aggression in my absence." Landor. Upon conveys a more distinct notion that on carries with it of something that literally or metaphorically bears or supports. It is less employed than it used to be, on having for the most part taken its place. Some expressions formed with it belong only to old style; as upon pity they were taken away; that is, in consequence of pity: upon the rate of thirty thousand; that is, amounting to the rate: to die upon the hand; that is, by means of the hand: he had a garment upon; that is, upon himself: the time is coming fast upon; that is, upon the present time. By the omission of its object, upon acquires an adverbial sense, as in the last two examples. To assure upon (Law), to promise; to undertake. — To come upon. See under Come. — To take upon, to assume.

Uppent
Up•pent, a. A Pent up; confined. [Obs.]

Upper
Up´per, a. ; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. Jowett (Thucyd.). — Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.), the name of the highest court of common law (formerly King’s Bench) during the Commonwealth. — Upper case, the top one of a pair of compositor’s cases. See the Note under 1st Case, n. , 3. — Upper covert (Zoöl.), one of the coverts situated above the bases of the tail quills. — Upper deck (Naut.), the topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck. — Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes. — Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes. — Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten thousand, more or less, who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.] — Upper topsail (Naut.), the upper half of a double topsail. — Upper works (Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water. — Upper world. (a) The atmosphere. (b) Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; — in distinction from the underworld.

Upper
Up´per, n. The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.

Uppermost
Up´per•most, a. [From Up, Upper; formed like aftermost. Cf. Upmost.] Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
"Whatever faction happens to be uppermost." Swift.

Uppish
Up´pish, a. [From Up.] Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority. [Colloq.] T. Brown. — Up´pish•ly, adv. [Colloq.] — Up´pish•ness, n. [Colloq.]

Uppricked
Up•pricked´, a. Upraised; erect; — said of the ears of an animal. Mason.

Upprop
Up•prop´, v. t. To prop up. Donne.

Upraise
Up•raise´, v. t. To raise; to lift up.

Uprear
Up•rear´, v. t. To raise; to erect. Byron.

Upridged
Up•ridged´, a. Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as a billow upridged. Cowper.

Upright
Up´right, a. [AS. upright, uppriht. See Up, and Right, a. ]
1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as an upright tree.
"With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright." Dryden.
"All have their ears upright." Spenser.
2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as a man upright in all his ways.
"And that man [Job] was perfect and upright." Job i. 1.
3. Conformable to moral rectitude.
"Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure." J. M. Mason.
4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. [Obs.] " He lay upright." Chaucer. Upright drill (Mach.), a drilling machine having the spindle vertical. This word and its derivatives are usually pronounced in prose with the accent on the first syllable. But they are frequently pronounced with the accent on the second in poetry, and the accent on either syllable is admissible.

Upright
Up´right, n. Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

Upright
Up´right, a. (Golf) Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Upright
Up´right, n. (Basketwork) A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.

Uprighteously
Up•right´eous•ly, adv. [See Righteous.] In an upright or just manner. [Obs.] Shak.

Uprightness
Up´right•ness, n. the quality or state of being upright.

Uprise
Up•rise´, v. i.
1. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. "Uprose the sun." Cowley.
"Uprose the virgin with the morning light." Pope.
2. To have an upward direction or inclination.
"Uprose the mystic mountain range." Tennyson.

Uprise
Up•rise´, n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. [R.]
"Did ever raven sing so like a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the sun’s uprise?" Shak.

Uprising
Up•ris´ing, n.
1. Act of rising; also a steep place; an ascent. "The steep uprising of the hill." Shak.
2. An insurrection; a popular revolt. J. P. Peters.

Uprist
Up•rist´, n. Uprising. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Uprist
Up•rist´, obs. imp. of Uprise. Uprose. Chaucer.
"Nor dim nor red, like God’s own head The glorious sun uprist." Coleridge.

Uproarious
Up•roar´i•ous, a. Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as uproarious merriment. — Up•roar´i•ous•ly, adv. — Up•roar´i•ous•ness, n.

Uproll
Up•roll´, v. t. To roll up. Milton.

Uproot
Up•root´, v. t. To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
"Trees uprooted left their place." Dryden.
"At his command the uprooted hills retired." Milton.

Uprouse
Up•rouse´, v. t. To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse. Shak.

Uprun
Up•run´, v. i. To run up; to ascend.
"The young sun That in the Ram is four degrees uprun." Chaucer.
"[A son] of matchless might, who, like a thriving plant, Upran to manhood." Cowper.

Uprush
Up•rush´, v. i. To rush upward. Southey.

Uprush
Up´rush, n. Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as an uprush of lava. R. A. Proctor.

Upsarokas
Up•sar•o´kas, n. pl. (Ethnol.) See Crows.

Upsend
Up•send´, v. t. To send, cast, or throw up.
"As when some island situate afar … Upsends a smoke to heaven." Cowper.

Upset
Up•set´, v. t.
1. To set up; to put upright. [Obs.] "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) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
3. To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as to upset a carriage; to upset an argument. "Determined somehow to upset the situation." Mrs. Humphry Ward.
4. To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as the fright upset her. [Colloq.]

Upset
Up•set´, v. i. To become upset.

Upset
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, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
"After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands and barony of Ellangowan." Sir W. Scott.

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

Upset
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.

Upsetting
Up•set´ting, a. Conceited; assuming; as an upsetting fellow. [Scot.] Jamieson.

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 reset, the reading may be made at leisure.

Upshoot
Up•shoot´, v. i. To shoot upward. "Trees upshooting high." Spenser.

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 consummation.
"I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot." Shak.
"We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man’s pleasurable existence." De Quincey.

Upside
Up´side, n. The upper side; the part that is uppermost. To be upsides with, to be even with. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] 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.

Upsidown
Up´si•down, adv. See Upsodown. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.

Upskip
Up•skip, n. An upstart. [Obs.] Latimer.

Upsnatch
Up•snatch´, v. t. To snatch up. [R.]

Upsoar
Up•soar´, v. i. To soar or mount up. Pope.

Upsodown
Up´so•down, adv. [ Up + so as + down.] Upside down. [Obs. or Colloq.] Wyclif.
"In man’s sin is every manner order or ordinance turned upsodown." Chaucer.

Upspear
Up•spear´, v. i. To grow or shoot up like a spear; as upspearing grass. [R.] Cowper.

Upspring
Up•spring´, v. i. To spring up. Tennyson.

Upspring
Up´spring, n.
1. An upstart. [Obs.] "The swaggering upspring." Shak.
2. A spring or leap into the air. [R.] Chapman.

Upspurner
Up´spurn•er, n. A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer. [Obs.] Joye.

Upstairs
Up•stairs´, adv. Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

Upstairs
Up´stairs, a. Being above stairs; as an upstairs room.

Upstand
Up•stand´, v. i. To stand up; to be erected; to rise. Spenser. Milton.
"At once upstood the monarch, and upstood The wise Ulysses." Cowper.

Upstare
Up•stare´, v. i. To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous. "Rearing fiercely their upstaring crests." Spenser.

Upstart
Up•start´, v. i. To start or spring up suddenly. Spenser. Tennyson.

Upstart
Up´start, n.
1. One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu. Bacon.
2. (Bot.) The meadow saffron. Dr. Prior.

Upstart
Up´start, a. Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence. "A race of upstart creatures." Milton.

Upstay
Up•stay´, v. t. To sustain; to support. [Obs.] "His massy spear upstayed." Milton.

Upsterte
Up•stert´e, obs. imp. & p. p. of Upstart.

Upstream
Up•stream´, adv. Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.

Upstreet
Up•street´, adv. Toward the higher part of a street; as to walk upstreet. G. W. Gable.

Upstroke
Up´stroke, n. An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made.
"Some upstroke of an Alpha and Omega." Mrs. Browning.

Upsun
Up´sun, n. (Scots Law) The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset.

Upswarm
Up•swarm´, v. i. & i. To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms. [R.] Shak. Cowper.

Upsway
Up•sway´, v. t. To sway or swing aloft; as to upsway a club. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Upswell
Up•swell´, v. i. To swell or rise up.

Upsyturvy
Up´sy•tur´vy, adv. [Cf. Upside down, under Upside, and Topsy-turvy.] Upside down; topsy-turvy. [Obs.] Robert Greene.

Uptake
Up•take´, v. t. To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] Wyclif. Spenser.

Uptake
Up´take, n. (Steam Boilers)
1. The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.
2. Understanding; apprehension. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Uptear
Up•tear´, v. t. To tear up. Milton.

Upthrow
Up•throw´, v. t. To throw up. Drayton.

Upthrow
Up´throw, n. (Mining) See Throw, n. , 9.

Uptie
Up•tie´, v. t. To tie up. Spenser.

Uptill
Up•till´, prep. To; against. [Obs. & R.]
"She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Leaned her breast uptill a thorn." Shak.

Up-to-date
Up•-to-date´, a. Extending to the present time; having style, manners, knowledge, or other qualities that are abreast of the times. "A general up-to-date style of presentment." Nature.
"I must prefer to translate the poet in a manner more congenial if less up-to-date." Andrew Lang.

Uptown
Up•town´, adv. To or in the upper part of a town; as to go uptown. [Colloq. U. S.]

Uptown
Up´town, a. Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society. [Colloq. U. S.]

Uptrace
Up•trace´, v. t. To trace up or out.

Uptrain
Up•train´, v. t. To train up; to educate. [Obs.] "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.

Up-train
Up´-train
1. A train going in the direction of the metropolis or the main terminus. [Eng.]
2. A train going in the direction conventionally called up. [U. S.]

Upturn
Up•turn´, v. t. To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as to upturn the ground in plowing. "A sea of upturned faces." D. Webster.
"So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air." Milton.

Upupa
U´pu•pa ( 277), n. [L., the hoopoe.] (Zoöl.) A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe.

Upwaft
Up•waft´, v. t. To waft upward. Cowper. { Up´ward, Up´wards } adv. [AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.]
1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; — opposed to downward; as to tend or roll upward. I. Watts.
"Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail." Hooker.
2. In the upper parts; above.
"Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish." Milton.
3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
"From twenty years old and upward." Num. i. 3.Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above.
"I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years." Shak.

Upwhirl
Up•whirl´, v. t. & i. To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.

Upwind
Up•wind´, v. t. To wind up. Spenser.

Up-wind
Up´-wind, adv. Against the wind.

Upwreath
Up•wreath´, v. i. To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.

Upyat
Up•yat´, obs. imp. of Upgive. Chaucer. { Ur, Ure }, n. (Zoöl.) The urus.