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Under the board, or table; hence, secretly; unfairly; underhand. See the Note under Aboveboard.

ubordinate cliff on a shore, consisting of material that has fallen from the higher cliff above.

ain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.

imited pump, a kind of deep-well pump placed at the level of the water, and operated from above ground. -- Un*lim"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Un*lim"it*ed*ness, n.

igh; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of Ant: down. But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. Milton.

To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson.

High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.

t 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.

See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3. -- Upper covert (Zoöl.), one of the coverts situated above the bases of the tail quills. -- Upper deck (Naut.), the topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck. -- Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes. -- Upper strake (Naut.), the strake next to the deck,…

The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. [R.] Did ever raven sing so like a lark, That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise Shak.

Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.

The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset.

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

ey. " Make me a cottage in the vale." Tennyson. Beyond this vale of tears there is a life above. Montgomery. In those fair vales, by nature formed to please. Harte.

ts the valley. -- Valley roof (Arch.), a roof having one or more valleys. See Valley, 2, above.

F. A. Walker. His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price. Dryden.

e, open-ended, turban-shaped shell provided with two faces of nearly equal diameters, one above another, which rest upon two corresponding seats when the valve is closed. -- Equilibrium valve. (a) A balance valve. See under Balance. (b) A valve for permitting air, steam, water, etc., to pass into or out of a chamber s…

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

A vessel similar to that described in the first definition above, or the representation of one in a solid block of stone, or the like, used for an ornament, as on a terrace or in a garden. See Illust. of Niche.

rdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush. Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion. Thoreau.