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

Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A thermometer by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered. The column of mercury is broken and, as it remains until the instrument is reset, the reading may be made at leisure.

lee side suddenly to the windward, any by laying the sails aback, expose her to danger of upsetting. -- To bring down. (a) To cause to come down. (b) To humble or abase; as, to bring down high looks. -- To bring down the house, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.] -- To bring forth. (a) To produce, as young fruit.…

To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.

Unsteady; easy to upset; crank.

Anything that floors or upsets a person, as a blow that knocks him down; a conclusive answer or retort; a task that exceeds one's abilities. [Colloq.]

To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc. That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears, As if these organs had deceptious functions. Shak. Such reasoning falls like an inverted cone, Wanting its prop…

To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

To turn up the keel; to show the bottom. To keel over, to upset; to capsize. [Colloq.]

A projecting contrivance at the side of a boat to prevent upsetting, as projecting spars with a log at the end.

rom an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building. Dryden.

To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor.

The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.

To turn upside down; to subvert; to upset. [Obs.] Wyclif.

An upset, as from a carriage. [Scot.]