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Author: Noah Webster

Up

Name: American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 - Up
Author: Noah Webster

UP, adv.

1. Aloft; on high

But up or down -

2. Out of bed. He is not up.

3. Having risen from a seat.

Sir Roger was up.

4. From a state of concealment or discumbiture.

5. In a state of being built.

Up with my tent.

6. Above the horizon. The sun is up.

7. To a state of excitement. He was wrought up to a rage.

8. To a state of advance or proficiency.

- Till we have wrought ourselves up to this degree of christian indifference.

9. In a state of elevation or exaltation.

Those that were up, kept others low.

10. In a state of climbing or ascending. We went up to the city or town.

11. In a state of insurrection.

The gentle archbishop of York is up.

My soul is up in arms.

12. In a state of being increased or raised. The river is up; the flood is up.

13. In a state of approaching; as up comes a fox.

14. In order. He drew up his regiment.

15. From younger to elder years; as from his youth up.

1. Up and down, from one place to another; here and there.

2. From one state or position to another; backwards and forwards.

1. Up to, to an equal highth with; as up to the chin in water.

2. To a degree or point adequate. Live up to the principles professed.

Up with, raise; life; as, up with the fist; up with the timber.

Up is much used to modify the actions expressed by verbs. It is very often useful and necessary; very often useless.

To bear up, to sustain.

To go up, to ascend.

To lift up, to raise.

To get up, to rise from bed or a seat.

To bind up, to bind together.

To blow up, to inflate; to distend; to inflame.

To grow up, to grow to maturity.

Up stream, from the mouth towards the head of a stream; against the stream; hence up is in a direction towards the head of a stream or river; as up the country.

Up sound, in the direction from the sea; opposed to down sound, that is, in the direction of the ebb tide.

Up is used elliptically for get up, expressing a command or exhortation.

Up, let us be going. Judg 19.

UP, prep. From a lower to a higher place. Go up the hill.

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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Up," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed October 11, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GCWEXVIUACKR3CR.

MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Up." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 11 Oct. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GCWEXVIUACKR3CR.

Harvard: Webster, N, 'Up' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 2, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 11 October 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=GCWEXVIUACKR3CR.