Definition of upper

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Upper (comp.) 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..

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Top-boots :: Top-boots (n. pl.) High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light-colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots..
Soil :: Soil (n.) The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them..
Medina Epoch :: Medina epoch () A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology..
Phaeton :: Phaeton (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore..
Companion :: Companion (n.) A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck..
Clerestory :: Clerestory (n.) The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs..
World :: World (n.) In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world..
Turbot :: Turbot (n.) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke..
Cross-crosslet :: Cross-crosslet (n.) A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses..
Bodice :: Bodice (n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it..
Morel :: Morel (n.) An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces..
Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..
Supramaxillary :: Supramaxilla (n.) The upper jaw or maxilla.
Ligule :: Ligule (n.) The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.
Back :: Back (n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge..
Acrodactylum :: Acrodactylum (n.) The upper surface of the toes, individually..
Sad :: Sad (supperl.) Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked..
Howell :: Howell (n.) The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
Gaberdine :: Gaberdine (n.) A coarse frock or loose upper garment formerly worn by Jews; a mean dress.
Mustache :: Mustache (n.) That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.
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