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English Dictionary: upside by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
upside
n
  1. the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted"
    Synonym(s): top, top side, upper side, upside
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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