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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Upright

Upright (upright)
a.(?)
Up"right`
[AS. upright, uppriht. See Up, and Right, ]
  1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.

    With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden.

    All have their ears upright. Spenser.

  2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.

    And that man [Job] was perfect and upright. Job i. 1.

  3. Conformable to moral rectitude.

    Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure. J. M. Mason.

  4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.
    [Obs.] " He lay upright." Chaucer.

    Upright drill (Mach.), a drilling machine having the spindle vertical.

    * This word and its derivatives are usually pronounced in prose with the accent on the first syllable. But they are frequently pronounced with the accent on the second in poetry, and the accent on either syllable is admissible.

Upright

Upright (upright)
n.
Up"right`
  1. Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame.

Upright

Upright (upright)
a.(?)
Up"right`
(Golf)
  1. Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

Upright

Upright (upright)
n.(?)
Up"right`
(Basketwork)
  1. A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.

Uprighteously

Uprighteously (uprighteously)
adv.(?)
Up*right"eous*ly
[See Righteous.]
  1. In an upright or just manner.
    [Obs.] Shak.

Uprightly

Uprightly (uprightly)
adv.(?)
Up"right`ly
  1. In an upright manner.

Uprightness

Uprightness (uprightness)
n.(?)
Up"right`ness
  1. the quality or state of being upright.












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