Definition of up

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Up (adv.) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be up to the chin in water; to come up with one's companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to engagements..

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Reduplicate :: Reduplicate (v. t.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3..
Booby :: Booby (n.) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby..
Cauliculus :: Cauliculus (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian..
Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely.
Squawberry :: Squaw (n.) A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup..
Locker :: Locker (n.) A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock..
Tympanum :: Tympanum (n.) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table..
Ytterbium :: Ytterbium (n.) A rare element of the boron group, sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements, as in euxenite and gadolinite. Symbol Yb; provisional atomic weight 173.2. Cf. Yttrium..
Income :: Income (n.) That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income..
Drupe :: Drupe (n.) A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut..
Scurf :: Scurf (n.) Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff..
Strife :: Strife (n.) Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts..
Conjugate :: Conjugate (a.) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
Element :: Element (n.) One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter..
Crude :: Crude (superl.) In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh..
Brattice :: Brattice (n.) Planking to support a roof or wall.
Fleshy :: Fleshy (superl.) Human.
Dipyre :: Dipyre (n.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent..
Orderly :: Orderly (n.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier who attends a superior officer to carry his orders, or to render other service..
Combination :: Combination (n.) The different arrangements of a number of objects, as letters, into groups..
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