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To hoard. [Obs.] Donne.

To lead upward. [Obs.]

To lean or incline upon anything. [Obs.] Spenser.

To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock. Cowper. Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed. Milton.

To lock up. [Obs.] Shak.

To look or gaze up. [Obs.]

Highest; topmost; uppermost. Spenser. Dryden.

An edible fresh-water New Zealand fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus) of the family Haplochitonidæ. In general appearance and habits, it resembles the northern lake whitefishes and trout. Called also grayling.

On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it is interchangeable. "Upon an hill of flowers." Chaucer. Our host upon his stirrups stood anon. Chaucer. Thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar. Ex. xxix. 21. The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. Judg. xvi. 9. As I did stand my watch upon the hill.…

A Pent up; confined. [Obs.]

Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. Jowett (Thucyd.). -- Upper Bench (Eng. Hi…

Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.

The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. [Colloq.]

To pile, or heap, up. Southey.

Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority. [Colloq.] T. Brown. -- Up"pish*ly, adv. [Colloq.] -- Up"pish*ness, n. [Colloq.]

imp. & p. p. of Uppluck.

To pull or pluck up. [Obs.]

Upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal. Mason.

To prop up. Donne.

To raise; to lift up.