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The upper air; the sky; the heavens. [Obs.] Anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. Shak.

portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register.

Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.

Armor for the upper part of the arm. Fairholt.

The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird.

[Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Drummond. Rider's bone (Med.), a bony deposit in the muscles of the upper and inner part of the thigh, due to the pressure and irritation caused by the saddle in riding.

A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys. "The frozen ridges of the Alps." Shak. Part rise crystal wall, or ridge direct. Milton.

n American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush.

structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins. See Illust. of Spicule, and Sand dollar, under Sand.

One of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a stag.

Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash. Brande & C.

The upper end of the rudderpost, to which the tiller is attashed.

The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.

Running title (Print.), the title of a book or chapter continued from page to page on the upper margin.

A piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle.

church, to be observed by his followers; hence, specifically, the eucharist; the Lord's Supper.

Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle.

Britain. -- Saint George's ensign, a red cross on a white field with a union jack in the upper corner next the mast. It is the distinguishing badge of ships of the royal navy of England; -- called also the white ensign. Brande & C. -- Saint George's flag, a smaller flag resembling the ensign, but without the union ja…

of salt. The saliferous beds of New York State belong largely to the Salina period of the Upper Silurian. See the Chart of Geology.

The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology.