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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.

A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe.

To waft upward. Cowper.

Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

ace; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.

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

To wind up. Spenser.

To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.

imp. of Upgive. Chaucer.

roken off; very steep, or craggy, as rocks, precipices, banks; precipitous; steep; as, abrupt places. "Tumbling through ricks abrupt," Thomson.

A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward.

In an abrupt manner; without giving notice, or without the usual forms; suddenly.

The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

To join; to couple. [R.] The Englishmen accoupled themselves with the Frenchmen. Hall.

The act of coupling, or the state of being coupled; union. [R.] Caxton.

The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.

A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

See Acupuncture.

To treat with acupuncture.

To bring together in a group; to group. Dryden.