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impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony. Burke. -- Un`im*peach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`im*peach"a*bly, adv.

Not spotted; free from spot or stain; especially, free from moral stain; unblemished; immaculate; as, an unspotted reputation. -- Un*spot"ted*ness, n.

To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain. Spenser. One short sigh of breath, upbore Even to the seat of God. Milton. A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. Pope.

To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain. Honor shall uphold the humble in spirit. Prov. xxix 3. Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone upholds the day. Shak.

One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.

e frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow. Sir. W. Scott. Philip swore upon the Evangelists to abstain from aggression in my absence. Landor.

To sustain; to support. [Obs.] "His massy spear upstayed." Milton.

ain oblations. Isa. i. 13. Vain is the force of man To crush the pillars which the pile sustain. Dryden.

He wheeled in air, and stretched his vans in vain; His vans no longer could his flight sustain. Dryden.

ts and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. Pope.

One who uses, or sustains the use of, the veto.

To maintain or defend with success; to prove to be valid; to assert convincingly; to sustain against assault; as, to vindicate a right, claim, or title.

f one's possessions; as, a baptismal vow; a vow of poverty. "Nothing . . . that may . . . stain my vow of Nazarite." Milton. I pray thee, let me go and pay my vow. 2 Sam. xv. 7. I am combined by a sacred vow. Shak.

To procure or sustain a reduction of flesh; -- said of a jockey in preparation for a race, etc.

Not able to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain; as, a weak timber; a weak rope.

Hence, to sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to sustain; to endure; to resist; as, to weather the storm. For I can weather the roughest gale. Longfellow. You will weather the difficulties yet. F. W. Robertson.

To stain; to blemish; to harm; to corrupt. [Obs.]

Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness. He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. Byron.

Stain; brand. [Obs.] "Slavish wipe." Shak.

Colored or stained with woad. "Man tattoed or woaded, winter- clad in skins." Tennyson.