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.
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.
Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc., expressing a
command or exhortation. "Up, and let us be going." 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. "Anxious that their sons should be well up in the
superstitions of two thousand years ago." 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]
Up, prep. 1. From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a
higher situation upon; at the top of.
In going up a hill, the knees will be most weary; in going down, the
thihgs.
Bacon.
2. From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth
towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to
sail up the Hudson.