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The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs. In chief. (a) At the head; as, a commander in chief. (b) (Eng. Law) From the king, or sovereign; as, tenure in chief, tenure directly from the king.

The tumid upper lip of certain mammals, as of a camel.

The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are usually attached. Hook.

The upper or lower part of a truss, usually horizontal, resisting compression or tension. Waddell. Accidental, Common, and Vocal chords. See under Accidental, Common, and Vocal. -- Chord of an arch. See Illust. of Arch. -- Chord of curvature, a chord drawn from any point of a curve, in the circle of curvature for tha…

A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.

The upper stratum of fuller's earth.

Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like clapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.

A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. Youatt.

A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.

end; to consummate; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction. One frugal supper did our studies close. Dryden.

A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, susponded in the upper atmosphere. I do set my bow in the cloud. Gen. ix. 13.

portional assesment; as, to club the expense. To club a musket (Mil.), to turn the breach uppermost, so as to use it as a club.

lupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side.

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men. Let each His adamantine coat gird well. Milton.

An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. Dryden. Swift.

s through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of ou…

the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.

e cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.

The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.