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, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from sleep; to sit with the body upright; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person. "He that was dead sat up, and began to speak." Luke vii. 15.

A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright. Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite. Dryden.

See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.

Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] "Now, my spruce companions." Shak. He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. Tatler.

Any single insulated and prominent structure, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel. (Computer programming)

A stick inserted upright in a lop, eye, or mortise, at the side or end of a cart, a flat car, or the like, to prevent goods from falling off.

One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.] To climd by the rungs and the stalks. Chaucer.

Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.

To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position; as:

An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.

position or state; to move steadily. Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel. Coleridge.

In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.

One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.

An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.

Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.

Straight in form or upright in position; erect. [Obs.] Shak.

Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.

An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.

Without danger; firmly; steadly; securely. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely. Prov. x. 9.