English Dictionary: uppish | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Upas \U"pas\, n. [Malay p[?]hn-[?]pas; p[?]hn a tree + [?]pas poison.] 1. (Bot.) A tree ({Antiaris toxicaria}) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also {bohun upas}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Uppish \Up"pish\, a. [From {Up}.] Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority. [Colloq.] --T. Brown. -- {Up"pish*ly}, adv. [Colloq.] -- {Up"pish*ness}, n. [Colloq.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Upsway \Up*sway"\, v. t. To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club. [R.] --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Uveous \U"ve*ous\, a. [See {Uvea}.] Resembling a grape. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Uvic \U"vic\, a. [L. uva grape.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, grapes; specifically, designating an organic acid, {C7H8O3} (also called pyrotritartaric acid), obtained as a white crystalline substance by the decomposition of tartaric and pyrotartaric acids. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
UPS 1. {uninterruptible power supply}. 2. A source level {C} debugger that runs under {X11} or {SunView} by Mark Russell {interpreter} which allows you to add fragments of code simply by editing them into the source window. Version 2.1. Ported to {Sun}, {DECstation}, {VAX} {Ultrix}, {HLH} {Clipper}. {(ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/)}. Mailing list: ups-users-request@ukc.ac.uk. Unofficial enhancements by Rod Armstrong {(ftp://sj.ate.slb.com/misc/Unix/ups/contrib/rob)}. (1991-05-20) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
UUPC {UUCP} for {MS-DOS}, {Microsoft Windows}, and {OS/2}. E-mail: | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Uphaz probably another name for Ophir (Jer. 10:9). Some, however, regard it as the name of an Indian colony in Yemen, southern Arabia; others as a place on or near the river Hyphasis (now the Ghana), the south-eastern limit of the Punjaub. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Uphaz, pure gold; gold of Phasis or Pison |