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To raise; to erect. Byron.

Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged. Cowper.

In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden. All have their ears upright. Spenser.

In an upright or just manner. [Obs.] Shak.

In an upright manner.

the quality or state of being upright.

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. "Uprose the sun." Cowley. Uprose the virgin with the morning light. Pope.

Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent. "The steep uprising of the hill." Shak.

Uprising. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nfusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5.

Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.

To roll up. Milton.

To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate. Trees uprooted left their place. Dryden. At his command the uprooted hills retired. Milton.

To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse. Shak.

To run up; to ascend. The young sun That in the Ram is four degrees uprun. Chaucer. [A son] of matchless might, who, like a thriving plant, Upran to manhood. Cowper.

To rush upward. Southey.

See Crows.

To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.

To send, cast, or throw up. As when some island situate afar . . . Upsends a smoke to heaven. Cowper.

To set up; to put upright. [Obs.] "With sail on mast upset." R. of Brunne.