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An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.

position or state; to move steadily. Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel. Coleridge.

In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.

One of the upright pieces in a frame; one of the primary members of a frame, into which the secondary members are mortised.

An assemblage of upright stones with others placed horizontally on their tops, on Salisbury Plain, England, -- generally supposed to be the remains of an ancient Druidical temple.

Conforming to justice and rectitude; not deviating from truth or fairness; upright; as, straight dealing.

Straight in form or upright in position; erect. [Obs.] Shak.

Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.

An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.

Without danger; firmly; steadly; securely. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely. Prov. x. 9.

others, at the English and the black-and-tan terriers, have short, close, smooth hair and upright ears.

A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other.

A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

Any fossil coral of the genus Syringopora consisting of a cluster of upright tubes united together by small transverse tubules.

er of large flowerlike polyps situated at the summit of a long, slender stem which stands upright in the mud, supported by a bulbous base.

Want of equity or uprightness; injustice; wickedness; iniquity. [Obs.] Wyclif.

higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the li…

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

seemed to venerate the sacred shade. Dryden. I do not know a man more to be venerated for uprightness of heart and loftiness of genius. Sir W. Scott.