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ravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of Ant: down. But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. Milton.

track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the track upon which up-trains run. See Up-train. [Eng.]

Designating a method of shaft excavation by drifting to a point below, and then raising instead of sinking.

g style, manners, knowledge, or other qualities that are abreast of the times. "A general up-to-date style of presentment." Nature.

A train going in the direction conventionally called up. [U.S.]

Against the wind.

s been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.

To fasten with a bar. [R.]

To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain. Spenser. One short sigh of breath, upbore Even to the seat of God. Milton. A monstrous wave upbore The chief, and dashed him on the craggy shore. Pope.

To bind up. [R.] Collins.

To blow up; as, the wind upblows from the sea. [Obs.] Spenser.

the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed. And upbraided them with their unbelief. Mark xvi. 14. Vet do not Upbraid us our distress. Shak.

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

To breathe up or out; to exhale. [Obs.] Marston.

To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed.

Brought up; educated. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of buoying up; uplifting. [R.] Coleridge.

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.

Seized or caught up. " She bears upcaught a mariner away." Cowper.