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Having the lower incisor teeth projecting beyond the upper ones, as in the bulldog.

as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.

Highest; topmost; uppermost. Spenser. Dryden.

The upper side; the part that is uppermost. To be upsides with, to be even with. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott. T. Hughes. -- Upside down. Etym: [Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down.] With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. Shak. These that h…

Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown. [Colloq. U. S.]

The upper part; the top. [Obs.] From the extremest upward of thy head. Shak.

In the upper parts; above. Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. Milton.

The part of a boot or shoe above the sole and welt, and in front of the ankle seam; an upper.

Arched like the roof of the mouth, as the upper lip of many ringent flowers.

Velvet. [Obs.] "A woman's crupper of velure." Shak.

oteroglypha. The former have perforated, erectile fangs situated in the front part of the upper jaw, and are without ordinary teeth behind the fangs; the latter have permanently erect and grooved fangs, with ordinary maxillary teeth behind them. -- Ven"om*ous*ly, adv. -- Ven"om*ous*ness, n.

A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus, or Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.

Of or pertaining to the vexillum, or upper petal of papilionaceous flowers. Vexilary æstivation (Bot.), a mode of æstivation in which one large upper petal folds over, and covers, the other smaller petals, as in most papilionaceous plants.

The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.

queeze with a vice, or as if with a vice. Shak. The coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh. De Quincey.

lsetto. In producing it, the vibration of the cords is limited to their thin edges in the upper part, which are then presented to each other. -- Middle voice (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its subject is represented as both the agent, or doer, and the object of the action, that is, as performing some act to o…

The band which encompasses the waist; esp., one on the upper part of breeches, trousers, pantaloons, skirts, or the like.

ily, native of the Arctic Ocean. The male has long and powerful tusks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.

ble, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the beginning of the upper wall.