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Upswell
() To swell or rise up.
Upsyturvy
() Upside down; topsy-turvy.
Uptails all
() An old game at cards.
Uptails all
() Revelers; roysterers.
Uptails all
() Revelry; confusion; frolic.
Uptake
() To take into the hand; to take up; to help.
Uptake
() The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.
Uptake
() Understanding; apprehension.
Uptear
() To tear up.
Upthrow
() To throw up.
Upthrow
() See Throw, n., 9.
Upthunder
() To send up a noise like thunder.
Uptie
() To tie up.
Uptill
() To; against.
Uptown
() To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown.
Uptown
() Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society.
Uptrace
() To trace up or out.
Uptrain
() To train up; to educate.
Up-train
() A train going in the direction of the metropolis or the main terminus.
Up-train
() A train going in the direction conventionally called up.
Upturn
() To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing.
Upupa
() A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe.
Upwaft
() To waft upward.
Upward
() Alt. of Upwards
Upwards
() In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.
Upwards
() In the upper parts; above.
Upwards
() Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
Upward
() Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
Upward
() The upper part; the top.
Upwhirl
() To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.
Upwind
() To wind up.
Upwreath
() To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke.
Upyat
() imp. of Upgive.
Ur
() Alt. of Ure
Ure
() The urus.
Urachus
() A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.
Uraemia
() Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.
Uraemic
() Of or pertaining to uraemia; as, uraemic convulsions.
Uraeum
() The posterior half of an animal.
Ural
() Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia.
Ural-Altaic
() Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.
Urali
() See Curare.
Uralian
() Alt. of Uralic
Uralic
() Of or relating to the Ural Mountains.
Uralite
() Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.
Uralitization
() The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.
Uramil
() Murexan.
Uranate
() A salt of uranic acid.
Urania
() One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.
Urania
() A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.