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Uproarious
() Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment.
Uproll
() To roll up.
Uproot
() To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
Uprouse
() To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse.
Uprun
() To run up; to ascend.
Uprush
() To rush upward.
Uprush
() Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava.
Upsarokas
() See Crows.
Upseek
() To seek or strain upward.
Upsend
() To send, cast, or throw up.
Upset
() To set up; to put upright.
Upset
() To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
Upset
() To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
Upset
() To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument.
Upset
() To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her.
Upset
() To become upset.
Upset
() Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold.
Upset
() The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset.
Upsetting
() Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow.
Upshoot
() To shoot upward.
Upshot
() Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.
Upside
() The upper side; the part that is uppermost.
Upsidown
() See Upsodown.
Upsitting
() A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends.
Upskip
() An upstart.
Upsnatch
() To snatch up.
Upsoar
() To soar or mount up.
Upsodown
() Upside down.
Upspear
() To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass.
Upspring
() To spring up.
Upspring
() An upstart.
Upspring
() A spring or leap into the air.
Upspurner
() A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer.
Upstairs
() Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
Upstairs
() Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.
Upstand
() To stand up; to be erected; to rise.
Upstare
() To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous.
Upstart
() To start or spring up suddenly.
Upstart
() One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.
Upstart
() The meadow saffron.
Upstart
() Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence.
Upstay
() To sustain; to support.
Upsterte
() imp. & p. p. of Upstart.
Upstir
() Insurrection; commotion; disturbance.
Upstream
() Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
Upstreet
() Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet.
Upstroke
() An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made.
Upsun
() The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset.
Upswarm
() To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms.
Upsway
() To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club.