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Up (ŭp), adv. [AS. up, upp, ūp; akin to OFries. up, op, D. op, OS. ūp, OHG. ūf, G. auf, Icel. & Sw. upp, Dan. op, Goth. iup, and probably to E. over. See Over.]
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1. Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down.
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But up or down,
By center or eccentric, hard to tell. Milton.
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2. Hence, in many derived uses, specifically: --
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(a) From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied.
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But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop. Num. xiv. 44.
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I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. Ps. lxxxviii. 15.
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Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. Chaucer.
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We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference. Atterbury.
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(b) In a 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 like; as, “to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up”.
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And when the sun was up, they were scorched. Matt. xiii. 6.
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Those that were up themselves kept others low. Spenser.
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Helen was up -- was she? Shak.
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Rebels there are up,
And put the Englishmen unto the sword. Shak.
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His name was up through all the adjoining provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring to see who he was that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance. Milton.
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Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. Dryden.
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Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. Dryden.
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A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. Addison.
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Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate. Longfellow.
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(c) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, “to be up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements”.
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As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox to him. L'Estrange.
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(d) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, “in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent”.
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☞ Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to spend up (Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (B. Jonson).
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(e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, “to lay up riches; put up your weapons”.
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☞ Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc., expressing a command or exhortation. “Up, and let us be going.” Judg. xix. 28.
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Up, up, my friend! and quit your books,
Or surely you 'll grow double. Wordsworth.
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It is all up with him, it is all over with him; he is lost. -- The time is up, the allotted time is past. -- To be up in, to be informed about; to be versed in. “Anxious that their sons should be well up in the superstitions of two thousand years ago.” H. Spencer. -- To be up to. (a) To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the business, or the emergency. [Colloq.] (b) To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing ill or mischief; as, “I don't know what he's up to”. [Colloq.] -- To blow up. (a) To inflate; to distend. (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, “the boiler blew up”. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang] -- To bring up. See under Bring, v. t. -- To come up with. See under Come, v. i. -- To cut up. See under Cut, v. t. & i. -- To draw up. See under Draw, v. t. -- To grow up, to grow to maturity. -- Up anchor (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor. -- Up and down. (a) First up, and then down; from one state
or position to another. See under Down, adv.
Fortune . . . led him up and down. Chaucer.
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(b) (Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; -- said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut. Totten. -- Up helm (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward the upper, or windward, side of a vessel. -- Up to snuff. See under Snuff. [Slang] -- What is up? What is going on? [Slang]
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Up, prep.
1. From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of.
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In going up a hill, the knees will be most weary; in going down, the thihgs. Bacon.
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2. From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, “to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson”.
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3. Upon. [Obs.] “Up pain of death.” Chaucer.
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Up, n. The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; -- rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs. [Colloq.]
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Ups and downs, alternate states of elevation and depression, or of prosperity and the contrary. [Colloq.]
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They had their ups and downs of fortune. Thackeray.
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Up, a. Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, “an up look; an up grade; the up train”.
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