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or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. Jowett (Thucyd.). -- Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.), the name of the highes…

lace, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.

The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. [Colloq.]

To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to crupper a horse.

One who performs the operation of cupping.

See 2d Dubber.

nd bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.

To take supper; to sup. [R.]

Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl.

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20.

The upper surface of the toes, individually.

The entire upper surface of the foot.

The upper part, or the citadel, of a Grecian city; especially, the citadel of Athens.

to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause. After I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. Matt. xxvi. 32.

art songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.

middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

ader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.