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Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.

To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

The act of bursting upwards; a breaking through to the surface; an upbreak or uprush; as, an upburst of molten matter.

Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes. Addison.

To spring upward; to rise. [R.] Davies (Microcosmos).

To gaze upward. Byron.

A gushing upward. Hawthorne.

Upwards on, or as on, a hillside; as, to walk uphill.

To lead upward. [Obs.]

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.

To have an upward direction or inclination. Uprose the mystic mountain range. Tennyson.

To rush upward. Southey.

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

To shoot upward. "Trees upshooting high." Spenser.

To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous. "Rearing fiercely their upstaring crests." Spenser.

An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made. Some upstroke of an Alpha and Omega. Mrs. Browning.

The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.

To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing. "A sea of upturned faces." D. Webster. So scented the grim feature, and upturned His nostril wide into the murky air. Milton.

To waft upward. Cowper.

To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.