upcast
         n 1: air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which
               air leaves a mine

English Dictionary: upchuck	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
upchuck v eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" Synonym(s): vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up Antonym(s): keep down
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upcast \Up"cast`\, a.       Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes. --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upcast \Up"cast`\, n.       1. (Bowling) A cast; a throw. --Shak.          2. (Mining.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the             air passes after having circulated through the mine; --             distinguished from the downcast. Called also {upcast pit},             and {upcast shaft}.          3. An upset, as from a carriage. [Scot.]          4. A taunt; a reproach. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upcast \Up*cast"\, v. t.       1. To cast or throw up; to turn upward. [Obs.] --Chaucer.          2. To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid. [Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upcast \Up"cast`\, n.       1. (Bowling) A cast; a throw. --Shak.          2. (Mining.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the             air passes after having circulated through the mine; --             distinguished from the downcast. Called also {upcast pit},             and {upcast shaft}.          3. An upset, as from a carriage. [Scot.]          4. A taunt; a reproach. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upcast \Up"cast`\, n.       1. (Bowling) A cast; a throw. --Shak.          2. (Mining.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the             air passes after having circulated through the mine; --             distinguished from the downcast. Called also {upcast pit},             and {upcast shaft}.          3. An upset, as from a carriage. [Scot.]          4. A taunt; a reproach. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upcaught \Up"caught`\, a.       Seized or caught up. [bd] She bears upcaught a mariner       away.[b8] --Cowper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upgaze \Up*gaze"\, v. i.       To gaze upward. --Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upgush \Up"gush`\, n.       A gushing upward. --Hawthorne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upgush \Up*gush"\, v. i.       To gush upward.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upseek \Up*seek"\, v. i.       To seek or strain upward. [bd]Upseeking eyes suffused with .       . . tears.[b8] --Southey.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
UBASIC          Yuji Kida .          An extension of {BASIC} for {symbolic mathematics} and {number       theory}.          UBASIC supports {bignum}s, fractions, complex numbers,       polynomials and integer factorisation.   It runs under {MS-DOS}       and is written in {assembly language}.          Current version: 8.          {(ftp://ftp.simtel.com/math/utk/software/msdos/number.theory/ubasic/)}.          [Review, W.D. Neumann, Notices of AMS 36 (May/June 1989)]          ["A math-oriented high-precision BASIC", Notices of the A.M.S,       38 (Mar 1991)].          (1992-07-06)