up the stairs
         adv 1: on a floor above; "they lived upstairs" [syn: {upstairs},
                  {up the stairs}, {on a higher floor}] [ant: {below},
                  {down the stairs}, {downstairs}, {on a lower floor}]

English Dictionary: up to his neck	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
up to his neck adj deeply involved; "neck-deep in work"; "up to their necks in debt" Synonym(s): neck-deep, up to my neck, up to your neck, up to her neck, up to his neck, up to our necks, up to their necks
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
up-tick n a small increase; "the up-tick in terrorist activity"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Updike n United States author (born 1932) [syn: Updike, {John Updike}, John Hoyer Updike]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
uptake n the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) Synonym(s): consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake a process of taking up or using up or consuming; "they developed paper napkins with a greater uptake of liquids"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
uptick n a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction Antonym(s): downtick
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
uptight adj being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
uveitis n inflammation of the uvea of the eye
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spout \Spout\, n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See       {Spout}, v. t.]       1. That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip,             pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind             through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is             conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the             spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the             roof of a building. --Addison. [bd]A conduit with three             issuing spouts.[b8] --Shak.                         In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is                      contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --Sir                                                                               T. Browne.                         From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.                                                                               --Pope.          2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a             receptacle.          3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when             rising in a column; also, a waterspout.          {To put}, {shove}, [or] {pop}, {up the spout}, to pawn or             pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up             which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Snuff \Snuff\, n.       1. The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.          2. Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the             nose; also, the amount taken at once.          3. Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a             snuffing of the nose. [Obs.]          {Snuff dipping}. See {Dipping}, n., 5.          {Snuff taker}, one who uses snuff by inhaling it through the             nose.          {To take it in snuff}, to be angry or offended. --Shak.          {Up to snuff}, not likely to be imposed upon; knowing; acute.             [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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]:
Uptake \Up*take"\, v. t.       To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.] --Wyclif.       Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Uvitic \U*vit"ic\, a. [From L. uva a grape. So called because it       may be produced indirectly from tartaric acid, which is found       in the grape.] (Chem.)       Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, {CH3C6H3(CO2H)2},       obtained as a white crystalline substance by the partial       oxidation of mesitylene; -- called also mesitic acid.