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Up \Up\, adv. [AS. up, upp, [?]p; akin to OFries. up, op, D. op, OS. [?]p, OHG. [?]f, G. auf, Icel. [?] Sw. upp, Dan. op, Goth. iup, and probably to E. over. See {Over}.] 1. Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of {down}. But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. --Milton. 2. Hence, in many derived uses, specifically: (a) From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied. But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop. --Num. xiv. 44. I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. --Ps. lxxxviii. 15. Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. --Chaucer. We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference. --Atterbury. (b) In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up. And when the sun was up, they were scorched. --Matt. xiii. 6. Those that were up themselves kept others low. --Spenser. Helen was up -- was she? --Shak. Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto the sword. --Shak. His name was up through all the adjoining provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring to see who he was that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance. --Milton. Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. --Dryden. Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. --Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. --Addison. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate. --Longfellow. (c) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements. As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him. --L'Estrange. (d) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent. Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to spend up (--Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (--B. Jonson). (e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons. Note: Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc., expressing a command or exhortation. [bd]Up, and let us be going.[b8] --Judg. xix. 28. Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double. --Wordsworth. {It is all up with him}, it is all over with him; he is lost. {The time is up}, the allotted time is past. {To be up in}, to be informed about; to be versed in. [bd]Anxious that their sons should be well up in the superstitions of two thousand years ago.[b8] --H. Spencer. {To be up to}. (a) To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the business, or the emergency. [Colloq.] (b) To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to. [Colloq.] {To blow up}. (a) To inflate; to distend. (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang] {To bring up}. See under {Bring}, v. t. {To come up with}. See under {Come}, v. i. {To cut up}. See under {Cut}, v. t. & i. {To draw up}. See under {Draw}, v. t. {To grow up}, to grow to maturity. {Up anchor} (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor. {Up and down}. (a) First up, and then down; from one state or position to another. See under {Down}, adv. Fortune . . . led him up and down. --Chaucer. (b) (Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; -- said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut. --Totten. {Up helm} (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward the upper, or windward, side of a vessel. {Up to snuff}. See under {Snuff}. [Slang] {What is up?} What is going on? [Slang] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Down \Down\, adv. [For older adown, AS. ad[?]n, ad[?]ne, prop., from or off the hill. See 3d {Down}, and cf. {Adown}, and cf. {Adown}.] 1. In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up. 2. Hence, in many derived uses, as: (a) From a higher to a lower position, literally or figuratively; in a descending direction; from the top of an ascent; from an upright position; to the ground or floor; to or into a lower or an inferior condition; as, into a state of humility, disgrace, misery, and the like; into a state of rest; -- used with verbs indicating motion. It will be rain to-night. Let it come down. --Shak. I sit me down beside the hazel grove. --Tennyson. And that drags down his life. --Tennyson. There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world than a man who has written himself down. --Addison. The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone] the English. --Shak. (b) In a low or the lowest position, literally or figuratively; at the bottom of a decent; below the horizon; of the ground; in a condition of humility, dejection, misery, and the like; in a state of quiet. I was down and out of breath. --Shak. The moon is down; I have not heard the clock. --Shak. He that is down needs fear no fall. --Bunyan. 3. From a remoter or higher antiquity. Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. --D. Webster. 4. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions. --Arbuthnot. Note: Down is sometimes used elliptically, standing for go down, come down, tear down, take down, put down, haul down, pay down, and the like, especially in command or exclamation. Down, therefore, and beg mercy of the duke. --Shak. If he be hungry more than wanton, bread alone will down. --Locke. Down is also used intensively; as, to be loaded down; to fall down; to hang down; to drop down; to pay down. The temple of Her[8a] at Argos was burnt down. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). Down, as well as up, is sometimes used in a conventional sense; as, down East. Persons in London say down to Scotland, etc., and those in the provinces, up to London. --Stormonth. {Down helm} (Naut.), an order to the helmsman to put the helm to leeward. {Down on} [or] {upon} (joined with a verb indicating motion, as go, come, pounce), to attack, implying the idea of threatening power. Come down upon us with a mighty power. --Shak. {Down with}, take down, throw down, put down; -- used in energetic command. [bd]Down with the palace; fire it.[b8] --Dryden. {To be down on}, to dislike and treat harshly. [Slang, U.S.] {To cry down}. See under {Cry}, v. t. {To cut down}. See under {Cut}, v. t. {Up and down}, with rising and falling motion; to and fro; hither and thither; everywhere. [bd]Let them wander up and down.[b8] --Ps. lix. 15. | |
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Upbind \Up*bind"\, v. t. To bind up. [R.] --Collins. | |
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Upend \Up*end"\, v. t. To end up; to set on end, as a cask. | |
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Uphand \Up"hand`\, a. Lifted by the hand, or by both hands; as, the uphand sledge. [R.] --Moxon. | |
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Gad \Gad\, n. [OE. gad, Icel. gaddr goad, sting; akin to Sw. gadd sting, Goth. gazds, G. gerte switch. See {Yard} a measure.] 1. The point of a spear, or an arrowhead. 2. A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc. I will go get a leaf of brass, And with a gad of steel will write these words. --Shak. 3. A sharp-pointed rod; a goad. 4. A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling. --Fairholt. 5. A wedge-shaped billet of iron or steel. [Obs.] Flemish steel . . . some in bars and some in gads. --Moxon. 6. A rod or stick, as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with. [Prov. Eng. Local, U.S.] --Halliwell. Bartlett. {Upon the gad}, upon the spur of the moment; hastily. [Obs.] [bd]All this done upon the gad![b8] --Shak. | |
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7. Amount; quantity; portion; space; -- often indefinite. Away he goes, . . . a matter of seven miles. --L' Estrange. I have thoughts to tarry a small matter. --Congreve. No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before. --Mi --lton. 8. Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance. 9. (Metaph.) That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to {form}. --Mansel. 10. (Print.) Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing. {Dead matter} (Print.), type which has been used, or which is not to be used, in printing, and is ready for distribution. {Live matter} (Print.), type set up, but not yet printed from. {Matter in bar}, {Matter of fact}. See under {Bar}, and {Fact}. {Matter of record}, anything recorded. {Upon the matter}, [or] {Upon the whole matter}, considering the whole; taking all things into view. Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter, equal in foot. --Clarendon. | |
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Square \Square\, n. [OF. esquarre, esquierre, F. [82]querre a carpenter's square (cf. It. squadra), fr. (assumed) LL. exquadrare to make square; L. ex + quadrus a square, fr. quattuor four. See {Four}, and cf. {Quadrant}, {Squad}, {Squer} a square.] 1. (Geom.) (a) The corner, or angle, of a figure. [Obs.] (b) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles. 2. Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so; as: (a) A square piece or fragment. He bolted his food down his capacious throat in squares of three inches. --Sir W. Scott. (b) A pane of glass. (c) (Print.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers. (d) (Carp.) One hundred superficial feet. 3. An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets. The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town. --Addison. 4. (Mech. & Joinery) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc. 5. Hence, a pattern or rule. [Obs.] 6. (Arith. & Alg.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 [times] 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a^{2} + 2ab + b^{2}. 7. Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule. [Obs.] They of Galatia [were] much more out of square. --Hooker. I have not kept my square. --Shak. 8. (Mil.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron. [bd]The brave squares of war.[b8] --Shak. 9. Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level. We live not on the square with such as these. --Dryden. 10. (Astrol.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate. [Obs.] 11. The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel. [R.] 12. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered. [Obs.] --Shak. {Geometrical square}. See {Quadrat}, n., 2. {Hollow square} (Mil.), a formation of troops in the shape of a square, each side consisting of four or five ranks, and the colors, officers, horses, etc., occupying the middle. {Least square}, {Magic square}, etc. See under {Least}, {Magic}, etc. {On the square}, [or] {Upon the square}, in an open, fair manner; honestly, or upon honor. [Obs. or Colloq.] {On}, [or] {Upon}, {the square with}, upon equality with; even with. --Nares. {To be all squares}, to be all settled. [Colloq.] --Dickens. {To be at square}, to be in a state of quarreling. [Obs.] --Nares. {To break no square}, to give no offense; to make no difference. [Obs.] {To break squares}, to depart from an accustomed order. {To see how the squares go}, to see how the game proceeds; -- a phrase taken from the game of chess, the chessboard being formed with squares. [Obs.] --L'Estrange. | |
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Whole \Whole\, n. 1. The entire thing; the entire assemblage of parts; totality; all of a thing, without defect or exception; a thing complete in itself. [bd]This not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die. --J. Montgomery. 2. A regular combination of parts; a system. Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. --Pope. {Committee of the whole}. See under {Committee}. {Upon the whole}, considering all things; taking everything into account; in view of all the circumstances or conditions. Syn: Totality; total; amount; aggregate; gross. | |
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7. Amount; quantity; portion; space; -- often indefinite. Away he goes, . . . a matter of seven miles. --L' Estrange. I have thoughts to tarry a small matter. --Congreve. No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before. --Mi --lton. 8. Substance excreted from living animal bodies; that which is thrown out or discharged in a tumor, boil, or abscess; pus; purulent substance. 9. (Metaph.) That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to {form}. --Mansel. 10. (Print.) Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing. {Dead matter} (Print.), type which has been used, or which is not to be used, in printing, and is ready for distribution. {Live matter} (Print.), type set up, but not yet printed from. {Matter in bar}, {Matter of fact}. See under {Bar}, and {Fact}. {Matter of record}, anything recorded. {Upon the matter}, [or] {Upon the whole matter}, considering the whole; taking all things into view. Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter, equal in foot. --Clarendon. | |
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Uppent \Up*pent`\, a. A Pent up; confined. [Obs.] | |
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Up-wind \Up"-wind`\, adv. Against the wind. | |
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Upwind \Up*wind"\, v. t. To wind up. --Spenser. | |
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Up-wind \Up"-wind`\, adv. Against the wind. | |
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Upwind \Up*wind"\, v. t. To wind up. --Spenser. |