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  • English Word Upholster Definition An upholsterer.
  • English Word Upholsterer Definition One who provides hangings, coverings, cushions, curtains, and the like; one who upholsters.
  • English Word Upholstery Definition The articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; the business or work of an upholsterer.
  • English Word Uphroe Definition Same as Euphroe.
  • English Word Upland Definition 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.
  • English Word Upland Definition The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.
  • English Word Upland Definition Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.
  • English Word Upland Definition Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.
  • English Word Uplander Definition One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic.
  • English Word Uplander Definition The upland sandpiper.
  • English Word Uplandish Definition Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.
  • English Word Uplandish Definition Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized.
  • English Word Uplay Definition To hoard.
  • English Word Uplead Definition To lead upward.
  • English Word Uplean Definition To lean or incline upon anything.
  • English Word Uplift Definition To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock.
  • English Word Uplift Definition A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.
  • English Word Uplifting Definition of Uplift
  • English Word Uplock Definition To lock up.
  • English Word Uplook Definition To look or gaze up.
  • English Word Upmost Definition Highest; topmost; uppermost.
  • English Word Upokororo Definition An edible fresh-water New Zealand fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus) of the family Haplochitonidae. In general appearance and habits, it resembles the northern lake whitefishes and trout. Called also grayling.
  • English Word Upon Definition On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable.
  • English Word Uppent Definition A Pent up; confined.
  • English Word Upper Definition 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.
  • English Word Upper Definition The upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
  • English Word Uppermost Definition Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
  • English Word Uppertendom Definition The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
  • English Word Uppile Definition To pile, or heap, up.
  • English Word Uppish Definition Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.