3. Conformable to moral rectitude.

Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure.

J. M. Mason.

4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. [Obs.] " He lay

upright." Chaucer.

Upright drill (Mach.), a drilling machine having the spindle vertical.

This word and its derivatives are usually pronounced in prose with the

accent on the first syllable. But they are frequently pronounced with

the accent on the second in poetry, and the accent on either syllable

is admissible.

Up"right`, n. Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a

building. See Illust. of Frame.

Up*right"eous*ly (?), adv. [See Righteous.] In an upright or just

manner. [Obs.] Shak.

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Up"right`ly (?), adv. In an upright manner.

Up"right`ness (?), n. the quality or state of being upright.

Up*rise" (?), v. i. 1. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the

horizon. "Uprose the sun." Cowley.

Uprose the virgin with the morning light.

Pope.

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