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  • English Word Upstand Definition To stand up; to be erected; to rise.
  • English Word Upstare Definition To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous.
  • English Word Upstart Definition To start or spring up suddenly.
  • English Word Upstart Definition One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.
  • English Word Upstart Definition The meadow saffron.
  • English Word Upstart Definition Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence.
  • English Word Upstay Definition To sustain; to support.
  • English Word Upsterte Definition imp. & p. p. of Upstart.
  • English Word Upstir Definition Insurrection; commotion; disturbance.
  • English Word Upstream Definition Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
  • English Word Upstreet Definition Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet.
  • English Word Upstroke Definition 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.
  • English Word Upsun Definition The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset.
  • English Word Upswarm Definition To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms.
  • English Word Upsway Definition To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club.
  • English Word Upswell Definition To swell or rise up.
  • English Word Upsyturvy Definition Upside down; topsy-turvy.
  • English Word Uptails all Definition An old game at cards.
  • English Word Uptails all Definition Revelers; roysterers.
  • English Word Uptails all Definition Revelry; confusion; frolic.
  • English Word Uptake Definition To take into the hand; to take up; to help.
  • English Word Uptake Definition The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.
  • English Word Uptake Definition Understanding; apprehension.
  • English Word Uptear Definition To tear up.
  • English Word Upthrow Definition To throw up.
  • English Word Upthrow Definition See Throw, n., 9.
  • English Word Upthunder Definition To send up a noise like thunder.
  • English Word Uptie Definition To tie up.
  • English Word Uptill Definition To; against.
  • English Word Uptown Definition To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown.