List of Old English Words in the OED/UP

Old English	n	Modern English
Up	adv	To a higher place; aloft, on high. 2. on one's legs. 3. out of bed. 4. spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position;above the horizon; fly up; upwards, upwards upwardly. 5. to a higher intensity; equal in skill; well versed in, competent. 6. nearer to the speaker. 7. to a more central or a more northerly place. 8. to a later time; from childhood upward".
Up	adj	Being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level; "the sun is up". 2. out of bed; astir. 3. getting higher or more vigorous. 4. extending or moving toward a higher place. 5. (usually followed by `on' or `for')" he had to be up for the game. 6. open, as in "the windows are up". 7. (used of computers) operating properly. 8: used up; exploited.
Up	vb	Raise; up the ante.
Up	pfx	(In adjectives, verbs, and related nouns) higher; upward; toward the top of something upland upturned upgrade uphill.
Up	phr	"Be All Up With" - completely; sore and finished. 2. disastrous, hopeless.
Up	phr	"Be One Up On (somebody)" - have an advantage over.
Up	phr	"Come Up Against" - contend with, face or confronted by difficulties.
Up	phr	"Come Up with" - give, offer.
Up	phr	"Do Up" - make improvements or repairs.
Up	phr	"Drive Up the Wall" - make somebody very annoyed, frustrated.
Up	phr	'End up" - finally arrive; become.
Up	phr	"I Have Had It Up to Here" - annoyed greatly by some difficulty or problem.
Up	phr	"Its All Up with" - there is no hope for; the situation is hopeless.
Up	phr	"It's is Up to Him" - it is for him to take the initiative or decide what is to be done.
Up	phr	"Not up to Much" - not very good, well.
Up	phr	"On the Up-and-Up" - steadily improving.
Up	phr	"Something is Up" - something unusual or undesirable is afoot or happening.
Up	phr	"Up Against" - close to; in or in contact with..
Up	phr	"Up Against It" - in great difficulties.
Up	phr	"Up Against the Wall" - fig. in serious difficulties.
Up	phr	"Up Along" - along in a particular or specified direction. 2. in the world at large; towards a large community outside an isolated region.
Up	phr	"Up and" - abruptly, suddenly, unexpectedly, up and leave.
Up	phr	"Up and At'em" - ready to confront, compete against, face an opponent, foe or adversary.
Up	phr	'Up and Coming" - likely to add to the progress, success, popularity one has begun to achieve.
Up	phr	"Up and Doing" - having risen from bed and being active and busy.
Up	phr	"Up and Down". - alternately on or to a higher and lower level or plane; (also in a fig. context). 2. with variation and vicissitude of further success or failure. 3. hither and thither; to and fro; along, backwards and forwards. 4. here and there; at various points; esp. at several of diverse places throught a district or region; in every direction. 5. upside down; topsy-turvy. 6. vertically - in or into vertical position in every respect, entirely, thoroughly; completely, top to tail. 7. altogether, in all. 8. in varying health or spirit.
Up	phr	"Up and Down the Land" - in various places throughout a particular country.
Up	phr	"Up and Down the Stairs" - with repetitious, and or tiring, use of stairs from one level to another.
Up	phr	"Up and Leave" - suddenly, unexpectedly, abruptly or disconcertingly leave.
Up	phr	"Up and Running" - in a working condition, operating, going.
Up	phr	"Up End" - to set on end, as a barrel or ship. 2. to affect drastically or radically, as tastes, opinions, reputations, or systems. 3. to defeat in competition, as in boxing or business. 4. to become upended. 5. to place the body back-end up, as a dabbling duck.
Up	phr	"Up for" - liable to, having to submit to. 2. under consideration for, available for office, appointment.
Up	phr	"Up Hill and Down Dale" - up and down hills. 2. confronting obstacles, on an arduous journey. 3. fulfillment of an arduous task.
Up	phr	"Up in Arms" - actively rebelling.
Up	phr	"Up in Years" - advanced in age; getting old.
Up	phr	"Up On" - informed about a matter or subject.
Up	phr	"Up Oneself" - (slang) smug, arrogant, self-important, self-satisfied.
Up	phr	"Up One's Sleeve" - (usually of a fact or reply held back until the right and decisive moment to reveal it; hidden, in reserve.
Up	phr	"Up or Out" - the fact of forcing employess not promoted in a timely fashion to trminate employment.
Up	phr	"Ups and Downs" - alternating pattern of good and bad periids in one's life; the vicissitudes.
Up	phr	"Up Someone's Street" - perfectedly suitable to someone matching someone's interests and abilities.
Up	phr	"Up Sticks" - (slang) go to live elsewhere or to another residence.
Up	phr	"Up the Pole" - (slang) crazy, eccentric. 2. in difficulty.
Up	phr	"Up to" - able to perform do or undertake; fit or qualified; capable of. 2. until.
Up	phr	"Up to No Good" - misbehaving, mixed up or embroiled in some nefarious activity.
Up	phr	"Up to One's Elbows" - very busy.
Up	phr	"Up to One's Neck in Something" - closely involved in or with something.
Up	phr	"Up to Somebody" - the duty, responsibility of.
Up	phr	"Up to Something" - able to do something, or involved in something dishonest or mischievous.
Up	phr	"Up to Speed" - fully informed; or au fait with.
Up	phr	"Up to the Hilt- completely.
Up	phr	"Up to the Mark" - reaching the usual or normal standard.
Up	phr	"Up With" - on a level with in regard to knowledge or skill. 2. expressing support for a stated person or thing.
Up	phr	"Up with Somebody" - at the same level, equal to somebody, or be troubling somebody.
Up	phr	"Up with the Lark(s)" - awake and out of bed very early in the morning.
Up	phr	"Up with You" - get up, get out of bed.
Up	phr	"Up Yours" - expressing contemptuous defiance or rejection. 2. be quiet, go away, drop dead.
Up	phr	"Well Up on Something" - well informed, knowledgeable or au fait about something.
Up	phr	"Whats Up (with him/her)!" - what is going on?". 2. what is the matter? 3. what is troubling him/her?
Upaheven	adj	Uplifted, lifted up.
Up-along	adv	Along in a particular or specified direction. 2. in the world at large; towards a large community outside an isolated region.
Up-anchor	vb	Take up anchor; prepare to sail.
Up-and-comer	n	Person who is up-and-coming: promising, making progress,beginning to achieve success
Up-and-coming	adv	Active, alert, wide awake, engaged, promising, making progress, beginning to achieve success.
Up-and-comingness	n	The state or condition of being up-and-coming.
Up-and-downer	n	A violent quarrel or argument.
Up-and-over	adj	Opened by being raised and pushed back into a horizontal position.
Up-and-running	adj	Functioning, in operation.
Up-and-under	n	In Rugby and Australian Rules football, a high kick to allow time for team mates to reach the point where the ball will come down.
Upbear	vb	To bear up, support, sustain; also to lift up. 2. to raise up; support.
Upbearer	n	Supporter, sustainer.
Upbearing	n	The action of carrying, raising, taking or holding up; supporting, sustaining.
Upbeat	n	A mood optimistic or positive; a development pleasant or pleasing, etc. 2. a blooming, a blossoming.
Upbeat	adj	Cheerful, happy, hoprful, optimistic, positive, lively, vigorous; blooming, blossoming.
Upbeatness	n	The state or condition of being upbeat.
Upbind	vb	To bear up; sustain.
Upblaze	vb	To leap up in flames; to shoot upwards.
Upblow	n	Inflation.
Upblow	vb	To inflate.
Upblown	adj	Inflated, puffed up.
Upborne	adj	Borne or carried upwards, as by the wind.
Upbraid	vb	To scold, rebuke, reprove severely, chide. 2. to charge with something wrong or disgraceful. 3. to voice reproach.
Upbraider	n	One who upbraids.
Upbraiding	n	In a reproaching, scolding, rebuking, reproving, in a chiding manner.
Upbraiding	adj	Reproachful.
Upbraidingly	adv	In a Reproach, ccolding, rebuking, reproving, chiding
Upbreak	n	An eruption or outbreak. 2. a breaking-up or dissolution.
Upbreak	vb	To break out; break open; to begin to speak. 2. to force or make a way upwards or to the surface.
Upbreathe	vb	Exhale, breathe in and out.
Upbreed	vb	To bring up, nurse, rear.
Upbring	vb	To bring up or forth; to utter. 2. to bring or rear. 3. to bring forth or produce. 4. to raise, exalt.
Upbringing	n	Action of bringing up. 2. action of bringing up a young person; rearing or training.
Upbuild	vb	Build up (lit); construct.
Upbuilding	n	The act of building up.
Upburst	n	An upward burst out or outbreak.
Up-by	adv	Up there an in a particular place.
Up-cast	n	The act of casting up; throwing up, an upward throw. 2. in mining, a shaft through which air leaves a mine. 3. upthrow (geology).
Up-cast	adj	Cast, turned or thrown upwards.
Upcome	n	Ascent, way-up. 2. outward appearance of a person. 3. final or decisive result, yield, produce, outcome.
Upcome	vb	To spring up, rise up.
Upcoming	adj	Of the relatively near future; as in this coming Thursday; approaching, coming, forthcoming; about to be, already in sight, at hand, brewing, climbing, close, close at hand, coming, drawn to, foreseen, forthcoming, gathering, going to happen, in the offing, in the wind, leaping, looming, lowering, lurking, near, near at hand, nearing, oncoming, overhanging, rising, springing, that will be, threatening, to come, upgoing, uphill, uphillwards, uprising, upward, upwith.
Updraught	n	Upward moving current of air, updraw; updraft.
Updraw	vb	To pull out of the ground. 2. to draw up to a height or from a lower place. 3. to bring up because of the mind. 4. to bring up, as to be in the rear.
Up-and-downs	n	Time of good and bad fortune or health; vicissitudes.
Up-end	n	The end that has been tipped up.
Up end	vb	To set on end, as a barrel or ship. 2. to affect drastically or radically, as tastes, opinions, reputations, or systems. 3. to defeat in competition, as in boxing or business. 4. to become upended. 5. to place the body back-end up, as a dabbling duck.
Up-ended	adj	Set on end. 2. tipped-up; topsy-turvy
Upfield	adv	In or to a position nearer to an opponent's end of a football field.
Upfill	vb	To fill up.
Upfind	vb	To invent.
Upfinder	n	A deviser
Upflow	n	A flowing up.
Upflow	vb	To flow up.
Upfold	n	An anticline.
Upgang	n	An ascent, an acclivity. 2. the act of ascending, ascension. 3. an upward path or way.
Upgather	vb	To gather up, collect together.
Upgathering	n	The act or action of gathering or picking up, as in a marvellous upgathering of information.
Upgathered	adj	Collected, picked up, gleaned.
Upgive	vb	To give up; resign, abandon, deter, avow.
Upgiven	adj	Surrendered, resign.
Upgiver	n	One who furnishes information or particulars.
Upgiving	n	The surrender, abandonment, declaration, presentment.
Up-go	n	An ascent, rising, mounting.
Up-go	vb	To ascend, mount, go up.
Up-going	n	The action of going up; ascending, mounting.
Upgrow	vb	To grow up; fig. to increase.
Upgrowth	n	The fact o process of going up. 2. the process of origination; development.
Uphang	vb	To suspend, hang up.
Upheap	vb	To pile up, heap up, mass, collect, accumulate.
Upheaped	adj	Collected, accumulated, piled.
Unheaping	n	An addition to the full measure, accumulation, ascension.
Upheave	vb	To throw up lit. and fig.) 2. to lift forcefully from beneath. 3. to heave or lift up from beneath; to raise.
Upheaving	n	The act of lifting forcefully from beneath.
Uphebbe	vb	To raise up, exalt.
Upheld	vb	To keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last; continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve. 2. stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals. 3. support against an opponent; uphold, maintain. 4. to hold up; to lift on high; to elevate. 5. to keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling; to maintain. 6. to aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as, to uphold a person in wrongdoing.
Uphelm	vb	To put the helm to windward.
Uphight	vb	To exalt, raise up.
Uphill	adv	Against difficulties; as in uphill battle. 2. upward on a hill or incline; as in this street lay uphill; upwards on, or as on, towards a hillside; as, to walk uphill.
Uphill	adj	Sloping upward, inclining, rising. 2. ascending; going up; as, an uphill road. 3. attended with labor; difficult; as, uphill work.
Uphill	n	The upward slope of a hill.
Uphilt	vb	To thrust in (a sword, etc) up to the hilt.
Uphoard	vb	To hoard up; accumulate obsessively.
Uphold	vb	To confirm or maintain a decision etc. of a matter.
Upholder	n	One who confirms or maintain a decision etc., of a matter.
Upholding	adj	Confirmed, maintain or hold to a decision.
Uphoven	ppl	Past particle of upheave. 2. upheaved.
Upkeep	n	Maintenance in good condition; or repair, also in cost of such.
Upkeep	vb	Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; care, maintenance. 2. the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of sub-sistence; sustenance, sustentation, sustainment. 3. to support.
Upkeep	n	The act of keeping up, or maintaining; maintenance or support of persons, organizations, or objects such as machinery, by providing a location, repairs, and consumable items when necessary. 2. the cost of providing upkeep.
Upkeeping	adj	Maintaining; keeeping in order or repair.
Upland	n	High-lying districts, located in interior of a land. 2. an elevated area.
Upland	adj	Rustic, rural, country. 2. characteristic of the country; of rustic form or make. 3. lying inland: in the interior. 4. hilly, mountainous; flowing down from higher ground; downward flowing.
Uplander	n	An inhabitant or nature of an upland districts.
Uplandish	adj	Rustic; out-of-town, outlandish, foreign. 2. of bees: wild. 3. wild, mountainous; a dwelling in the mountins, savage.
Uplandishness	n	The state or fact pertaining to, or situated in rural areas. 2. the quality of being rustic, boorish, uncivilized, unsophisticated. 3. the state or quality of being mountainous or wild.
Uplean	vb	To lean against something.
Upleap	vb	To leap with.
Uplift	n	The act or instance or being raised. 2. the raising of part of the earth's surface. 3. morally or spiritually elevating influence.4. support the bust etc from a garment
Uplift	vb	To raise, uplift or elevate or stimulate morally or spiritually. 2.
Uplifted	adj	Raised, elevated or stimulated morally, emotionally or spiritually.
Uplighter	n	Light placed or designed to throw illumination upwards.
Upload	n	The transfer of data esp. from a peripheral system to a larger storage device or system.
Upload	vb	To transfer data esp. from a peripheral system to a larger storage device or system.
Uploader	n	One who transfers data esp. from a peripheral system to a larger storage device or system.
Uploading	n	The process of transfering data esp. from a peripheral system to a larger storage device or system.
Uplock	vb	To lock up.
Uplook	n	An upward look or glance.
Uplying	adj	Upland.
Upmake	vb	To make up for a defect, lack or deficiency.
Upmaking	n	That makes up for a effect or lack. 2. seeking acquaintance or intimacy.
Upmanship	n	One-upmanship.
Upminded	adj	Upbeat, positive, progressive.
Upmost	adj	See "Uppermost".
Upness	n	The quality of being elevated or raised. 2.
Up-nim	vb	To take up.
Up-niming	n	The act or action of taking up.
Upon	prp	On; - used in all the senses of that word, with which it is inter-changeable. "Upon an hill of flowers." 2. about, above, after which, against, anent, apropos of, as for, as to, atop, by, by dint of, by means of, by way of, headed for, hereby, hereinafter, herewith, of, in re, in virtue of, of, on, on top of, over, over against,speaking of, thanks to, thereby, therewith, through, to, toward, towards, up, up against, upon which, whereat, whereby, wherefore, whereon, whereto, whereunto, whereupon, wherewith, wherewithal, with.
Upon	phr	"Upon a Stound" - in a moment, within a short time, within the hour.
Upon	phr	"Upon My Word" - certainly, truly, my God!
Upon	phr	"Upon One's Speed" - at speed, moving swiftly, rapidy, speedily.
Uponland	adv	In the country; as opposed to the town, rustically.
Uppe	vb	To display or make manifest. 2. to bring to notice. 3. to make known.
Upper	adj	The topmost one of two. 2. higher in place or position. 3. superior in rank or accomplishment. 2. being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature
Upper	n	The higher of two berths: the upper berth. 2. piece of leather or synthetic material that forms the part of a shoe or boot above the sole that encases the foot. 3. a central nervous system stimulant that increases energy and decreases appetite; used to treat narcolepsy and some forms of depression; amphetamine, pep pill, upper, speed. 4. the upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.
Upper	phr	"Down On One's Uppers" - extremely needy or poor; with very money.
Upper	phr	"Get the Upper Hand" - the superiority; the advantage, as "have the upper hand."
Upper	phr	"Get Under Hand." - dominate or take control of.
Upper	phr	"Keep a Stiff Lip" - remain calm and emotional (in adversity).
Upper berth	n	The top berth in a ship, train, sleeping-car, cabin, where two bunks a or beds are built one above the other.
Upper hand	n	Control.
Upper House	n	The higher house in the legislature, esp. the "House of Lords."
Uppermost	adj	Highest place, highest, or highest rank. 2. predominant.
Uppermost	adv	At or to the highest place or most prominent position.
Upper-ten	n	Short for the 'Upper Ten Thousand' and first used by American journalist (N. P. Willis d. 1867) in speaking of the New York wealthy, nobility, aristocracy, cream of society, or elite.
Upper works	n	The part of the ship that is above the water when fully laden.
Upper world	n	The atmosphere. 2. heaven. 3. this world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.
Upping	n	Manifestation, a making-known. 2. an end, issue or upshot of a matter.
Uppish	adj	Colloquially: overly conceited or arrogant; stuck-up, uppity, persnickety, bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches. 2. proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority. 3. affected, brash, conceited, forward, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, overweening, presuming, pettish, proud without a cause, pushing, putting on airs, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-important, snobbish, stuck-up, uppity
Uppishly	adv	In an uppish manner.
Uppishness	n	A state or instance of being uppish, arrogant, assuming.
Up-plow	vb	To plow up, break up by plow
Up-pluck	vb	To pukl up; pluck up., deracinate.
Up-put	n	The power of secretion.
Up-putter	n	One who raises, erects or builds up.
Up-putting	n	The act of bulding, erecting or setting up. 2. the act or gesture of accommodating or lodging someone.
Uprear	vb	To raise up, elevate, exalt. 2. to raise up in dignity, exalt. 3. bring up, tend to.
Upreared	adj	Excited in feeling, angry, elevated.
Uprend	vb	To pull up, uproot.
Upridged	adj	Raised up in ridges.
Upright	adj	In a vertical position; not sloping; an upright post, un-sloped. 2. of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; good, just; morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways; comformable to moral rectitude. 4. upright in position or posture; bolt upright, erect, vertical. 4. in an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; an upright tree. 5. stretched out face upward; flat one's back.
Upright	n	A vertical structural member as a post or stake. 2. a piano with a vertical sounding board. 2. something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. 3. (basketwork) 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. 4. (football) the vertical part of a goalpost, especially the part above the horizontal bar; as, a field goal directly between the uprights.
Upright	adj	Erect, vertical. 2. of a person's behavior, upright, strictly honorable or honest. 3. of a picture or book, greater in height than breadth. 4. of a piano with vertical strings
Upright	phr	" Be Bolt Upright" - exactly perpendicular.
Uprightly	adv	In a just or upright way or manner. 2. in strict operation of justice. 3. honestly or with rectitude. 4. sincerely, justly.
Uprightness	n	The position of being upright and vertical.
Uprise	n	Resurrection. 2. rising or dawning of the Sun. 3. act of rising from bed. 4. the rising to a higher level, ascent, the beginning of an ascent. 5. ascent in power and dignity. 6. rise in wealth and importance. 7. carry into existence or notice.
Uprising	n	A rebellious revolt.
Uprist	n	Resurrection, the rising up from the dead. 2. the rising from the Sun; sunrise. 3. the act of rising from bed.
Uproar	n	A tumult, a violent disturbance.
Uproar	vb	To create a violent disturbance.
Uproarer	n	One who creates a violent disturbance.
Uproarish	adj	Somewhat or rather violent or tumultuous.
Uproarishly	adv	In an uproarish, violent or tumiltuous manner.
Uproot	n	An uprooted tree or plant.
Uproot	vb	To pull a plant up from the ground. 2. displace a person from accustomed position. 3. eradicate destroy. 4. move away from one's accustomed location or home.
Uprooted	adj	Eradicated.
Uprootness	n	The state, condition of severance from one's natural origins.
Uprush	n	An upward rush, esp. psychologically, from the subconscious.
Ups and downs	n	Rises and falls; vicissitudes. 2. alternate good and bad fortune.
Upset	n	OE: to cause to sit, put in some place; fix firmly. The act of upsetting, or the state of being overturn, displaced, unfastened
Upset	vb	To become upset. To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. 3. to overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument; upset the situation. 4. to set up; to put upright.
Upset	phr	"Upset One's Applecart" - spoil a plan or arrangement. 2. disrupt the normal pattern of events. 3. disprove a theory.
Upseted	adj	Oppressed.
Upsetness	n	The state or quality of being upset.
Upsetter	n	On who upset; disturbs, turns over, etc.
Upsetting	n	The act of upsetting, disturbing or overturning something from its usual place.
Upsettingly	adv	In an upsetting manner; distressingly.
Upshift	vb	Move to a higher gear in a motor vehicle. 2. to increase a penalty.
Upshift	n	A shift to a higher level, such as frequency of growth.
Upshifter	vb	A process, algorithm, etc that shifts something to a higher level or frequency.
Upshoot	vb	To grow up, to send or raise up.
Upshot	n	An end, conclusion, or termination. 2. climax or completion of something; result, final issue or conclusion (of some course of action). 3. the upshot of: at last; in the end.
Upshutter	n	A shutter (of a shop, etc.).
Upside	n	The highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; top, top side, upper side. 2. the upper side; the part that is uppermost. 3. the benefits; the positive features; -- said of a situation or event that has both positive (good) and negative (bad) aspects.
Upside-down	adv	"Upside down." Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down. With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy.
Upside	phr	"Turn Upside down." Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down. With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy.
Upside-Down Land	n	Australia (informal); Land Downunder; Downunder. 2. (informal) the supposed state of mind of someone whose sense of reality is the converse of what is true, or whose actions seem to imply that.
Upside-downwards	adv	The upper side underneath or downwards. 2. inverted or downwards.
Upsides	adv	By the side of; alongside; on a level with; alongside of; on an equal or superior footing,. 2. "To be upsides with" - to be even with.
Upsides	phr	To be on equal terms with; to be quits.
Upsight	n	View, inspection. 2. height, as viewed from below.
Upsighted	adj	Having eyes which cannot readily look downwards.
Upsitten	adj	In active, indifferent, callous.
Upsitting	n	Inactivity, indifference. 2. the act of sitting up again after an illness. 3. the time when a woman first sits up after confinement.
Upspeak	vb	To bring to speak, or speak up.
Upspring	n	The rising of the Sun; dawn of the day. 2. action of springing into existence; sudden elevation. 2. being of growth of development; ongoing, generation.
Upspring	vb	Of plants: to spring up; grow. 2. to arise up or come into being. 3. to ascend, spring up; give rise to. 4. to leap upwards; to start or get to one's feet.
Upspring	adj	Upstart, newly arisen or come to; parvenual.
Upstairs	adv	A floor above; upstairs, up the stairs, on a higher floor. 2. with respect to the mind; "she's a bit weak upstairs". 3. up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
Upstairs	adj	On or of upper floors of a building; "the upstairs maid"; "an upstairs room" downstairs. 2. being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.
Upstairs	n	The part of a building above the ground floor; "no one was allowed to see the upstairs"
Upstairs	phr	"The Man Upstairs" - God.
Upstairs-downstairs	n	Denoting social contrast between employer and domestic servant, worker, hired help etc.
Upstanding	adj	Standing up. 2. strong and healthy. 3. honest or straightforward.
Upstart	n	A deep impression made by horse's foot in clayey soil or ground, which holds water.
Upstart	vb	To upstay. 2. to sustain by material support; to prop. 2. to sustain, support.
Upstartle	n	Startlement, awake into action.
Upstartle	vb	To cause to rise up in a startlement.
Upstartled	adj	Startled, aroused into action
Upstep	n	An upward shift of tone between syllables or words of a tonal language.
Upstep	vb	To apply an upward shift of tone between syllables or words of a tonal language.
Upstir	n	Commotion, disturbance.
Upstir	vb	To arouse, to excite.
Upstirring	n	An excitement or insurrection of the people. 2. a stirring up, stimulation, incitement, encouragement.
Upstraight	adj	Erect, upright.
Upstream	adv	Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current. 2. toward the source or against the current; upriver. 3. in the direction against a stream's current.
Upstream	adj	Difficult, as in " I do not wish any upstream measures in the supply of funds".
Upstreet	adv	Towards the higher part of the street.
Upstretched	adj	Stretched upwards.
Upstroke	n	Upshot, end or conclusion. 2. stroke delivered.
Upswarm	vb	To rise in a swarm. 2. to cause to rise ina swarm.
Upsty	n	Ascension of Christ.
Upsty	vb	To rise up, mount, ascend.
Upstying	n	The act of ascending, ascension, rising up, mounting. 2. a swelling up.
Up-sun	n	The time between sunrise and sunset. 2. the time betwen sunrise and sunset; dawn, aurora.
Upsweep	n	An upward movement or motion with a long, sweeping course. 2. a raising or lifting up.
Upsweep	vb	To move in an upward movement or tend. 2. to raise or lift up.
Unswept	adj	of the hair swept or combed up to the top of the head. 2. curved or sloped upwards.
Unswimming	adv	Swimming upwards against the tide.
Upswing	n	A upward movement or trend, such as an economic ; a period of improvement in a trading activity.
Upswing	phr	"On the Upswing" - with an upward movement or trend.
Uptail	n	A jovial fellow; revellers. 2. a woman: "a little, pretty uptail".
Uptalk	n	In linguistics, speech that has a strong intonation at the end of the sentence, as if it were a question.
Uptalk	vb	To use speech that has a strong intonation at the end of the sentence, as if it were a question.
Uptake	n	The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating); consumption, ingestion, intake. 2. a process of taking up or using up or consuming. 3. understanding; apprehension
Uptake	vb	To take into the hand; to take up; to help. [Obs.]
Uptake	n	"Slow on the Uptake" - slow-witted, mentally unalert.
Uptear	vb	Pull up by the roots; or from the foundation, to rend, tear up.
Up-there	n	Above-the-earth; in heaven; spec. with relation to God.
Upthrow	n	The action of casting upwards. 2. outburst or manifestation.
Upthrow	vb	To cast up the eyes. 2. to burst out. 3. to manifest.
Upthunder	vb	To send up a noise like thunder.
Uptie	vb	To tie up, fasten.
Uptight	adj	Being in a tense state; edgy, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, strained, stretched tight, stuffy, taut, traditionalist, under a strain, uneasy, unrelaxed.
Uptime	n	Time when a computer or similar device is "up" or able to function.
Up-top	n	Above deck; uptop. 2. fig. in a position of authority or influence. 3. the brain; uptop.
Up-top	phr	"It's All Up-top" - the brain and the ability to think.
Up-to-then	phr	Before a given point in time; until then.
Up-town	adv	Toward, to or in the upper part of town, to go uptown, as opposed to go downtown.
Up-town	adj	Of or located in the upper or higher part of a town; "uptown residential areas". 2. situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown, also the more prosperous salubrious or wealthlier part of a town or city.
Up-town	n	A residential part of town away from the central commercial district.
Upward	adv	See 'Upwards'
Upward	phr	"Upward of" - higher than or in excess.
Upward-bound	adj	Headed for success and prosperity.
Upward-lightning	n	In astronomy, meteorology, an upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, in which the lightning bolt projects straight into the upper atmosphere; blue starter, elve.
Upwardly	adv	In an upwards direction; upwards.
Upwardness	n	Tendency or proclivity to rise to mount upwards. 2. the quality of suggesting upward movement. 3. the quality of being upward; relative altitude.
Upwards	adv	Spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; up, upward, upwardly] 2. to a later time ; "from childhood upward"; up. 3. 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. 4. In the upper parts; above. 5. yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. 6. upward of, or upwards of, more than; above.
Upwarp	n	In Geology, a broad surface elevation, an anticline.
Upwaxen	pp	Increasing, growing to adulthood.
Upway	n	Ascent. 2. "a hopeless, dangerous decision, as "the barred up-way (upway) is to a virgin's bed."
Upways	adv	In an upward direction, upwards.
Upwell	vb	To well up, as a spring.
Upwelling	n	An upward movement from a lower source. 2. the oceanographic phenomena that occurs when strong, usually seasonal winds push water away from the coast, bringing cold, nutrient deep waters up to the surface.
Upwind	vb	To fly up. 2. to finish up, complete. 3. to wind, coil or roll up something. 4. to raise or hoist by winding. 5. to become coiled up. 6. to wind upwards.
Upwind	adv	Contrary to or against the course of, or against the wind. 2. occurring in a direction against the wind.
Upwind	adj	Against the direction of the wind.
Upwinding	adj	That winds upwards.
Upwing	adv	To soar or fly up; fly above, to rise up or above.
Upwith	adv	In an upwards course or direction. 2. in an upwards course or direction. 3. ascending or rising against; having an upward inclination. 4. tendency or sloping or rising.
Upwreathe	vb	To rise up with a curling motion, to curl up as smoke does.
Upwreathed	adj	That rises up with a curling motion, curling up as smoke does.
Upyield	vb	To deliver up; to resign.