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To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed.

A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, which is interwoven with others, between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.

To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff. Hence: --

to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.

Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.

The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.

Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons. [Obs.] Chaucer.

According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.

Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton.

A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.

To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall.

The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread. Hence:

To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.

Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.

A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.

erials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, i…

ount. -- Round hand, a style of penmanship in which the letters are formed in nearly an upright position, and each separately distinct; -- distinguished from running hand. -- Round robin. Etym: [Perhaps F. round round + ruban ribbon.] (a) A written petition, memorial, remonstrance, protest, etc., the signatures to wh…

is a broad and flat blade made of wood or iron, with a long shank, and is fastened in an upright position, usually by one edge, to the sternpost of the vessel in such a way that it can be turned from side to side in the water by means of a tiller, wheel, or other attachment.

Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or walk steadily on deck when a vessel is rolling or pitching in a rough sea. [Sailor's Cant] Totten.

ith rather upon Amida than Gautama Buddha. Rites and ceremonies are held useless without uprightness.