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Tending upwards; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. D. C. Eaton.

Great anxiety accompanied by painful constriction at the upper part of the belly, often with palpitation and oppression.

The upper, contrary-moving current of the atmosphere over a monsoon.

a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

lower end immersed in water, by causing the screw to revolve, the water is raised to the upper end. Francis.

Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays. Arming press (Bookbinding), a press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.

An arm ring; a bracelet for the upper arm.

One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]

The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. Gray.

us, or Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge. [The mountains] their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds. Milton.

The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

mes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.

A large fresh-water fish ( Barbus vulgaris) found in many European rivers. Its upper jaw is furnished with four barbels.

ting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. (d) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. (e) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.

The horizontal surface of a building stone; as, the upper and lower beds.

A kind of upper coat for men. [Colloq. Eng.]

Having two keel-like projections, as the upper palea of grasses.