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   Ubykh
         n 1: an extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey

English Dictionary: uppish by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
uppish
adj
  1. (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
    Synonym(s): bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
uveous
adj
  1. of or relating to the uvea of the eye [syn: uveal, uveous]
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 .   Ups includes a {C}
      {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: with subject SEND INDEX.
  
  

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
  
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