Up*rist" (?), n. Uprising. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Up*rist", obs. imp. of Uprise. Uprose. Chaucer.
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head The glorious sun uprist.
Coleridge.
Up"roar (?), n. [D. oproer; akin to G. aufruhr, Dan. oprör, Sw. uppror;
D. op up + roeren to stir; akin to AS. hr&?;ran to stir, hr&?;r
stirring, active, G. rühren to stir, OHG. ruoren, Icel. hræra, Dan.
röre, Sw. röra. Cf. Rearmouse.] [In verse, sometimes accented on the
second syllable.] Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy
confusion; bustle and clamor.
But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar.
Acts xvii. 5.
Up*roar" (?), v. t. To throw into uproar or confusion. [Obs.] "Uproar
the universal peace." Shak.
Up*roar", v. i. To make an uproar. [R.] Carlyle.
Up*roar"i*ous (?), a. Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and
tumult; as, uproarious merriment.
— Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. — Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
Up*roll" (?), v. t. To roll up. Milton.
Up*root" (?), v. t. To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by
the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
Trees uprooted left their place.
Dryden.
At his command the uprooted hills retired.
Milton.
Up*rouse" (?), v. t. To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to
arouse. Shak.
Up*run" (?), v. i. To run up; to ascend.
The young sun That in the Ram is four degrees uprun.
Chaucer.
[A son] of matchless might, who, like a thriving plant, Upran to
manhood.
Cowper.
Up*rush" (?), v. i. To rush upward. Southey.
Up"rush` (?), n. Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an
uprush of lava. R. A. Proctor.
Up`sar*o"kas (?), n. pl. (Ethnol.) See Crows.
Up*seek" (?), v. i. To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused
with . . . tears." Southey.
Up*send" (?), v. t. To send, cast, or throw up.
As when some island situate afar . . . Upsends a smoke to heaven.
Cowper.
Up*set" (?), v. t. 1. To set up; to put upright. [Obs.] "With sail on
mast upset." R. of Brunne.
2. (a) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering
on the end. (b) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting,
originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
3. To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to
upset an argument. "Determined somehow to upset the situation." Mrs.
Humphry Ward.
4. To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to
make ill; as, the fright upset her. [Colloq.]
Up*set", v. i. To become upset.
Up"set` (?), a. Set up; fixed; determined; — used chiefly or only in
the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum
for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at
which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest
price at which it will be sold.
After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands
and barony of Ellangowan.
Sir W. Scott.
Up"set`, n. The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an
overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
Up*set"ting (?), a. Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow.
[Scot.] Jamieson.
Up*shoot" (?), v. i. To shoot upward. "Trees upshooting high." Spenser.
Up"shot` (?), n. [Up + shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Cf.
the phrase to cast up an account.] Final issue; conclusion; the sum and
substance; the end; the result; the consummation.