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Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise up, or assume an erect position or posture; to set up; to make upright; as, to raise a mast or flagstaff..

Rightly :: Rightly (adv.) According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed..

Ronde :: Ronde (n.) A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look..

Pilaster :: Pilaster (n.) An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less..

Erect :: Erect (a.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached..

Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) A frame from which is suspended the rope with which criminals are executed by hanging, usually consisting of two upright posts and a crossbeam on the top; also, a like frame for suspending anything..

Unequity :: Unequity (n.) Want of equity or uprightness; injustice; wickedness; iniquity.

Right :: Right (v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.

Probity :: Probity (n.) Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness.

Indirectness :: Indirectness (n.) Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty.

Loggerhead :: Loggerhead (n.) An upright piece of round timber, in a whaleboat, over which a turn of the line is taken when it is running out too fast..

Stand :: Stand (n.) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation..

Right :: Right (v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening..

Puppet :: Puppet (n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.

Wall :: Wall (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room..

Piggin :: Piggin (n.) A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper..

Upright :: Upright (a.) Conformable to moral rectitude.

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) One of the two upright pieces of a ladder.

Palmyra :: Palmyra (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts..

Mullion :: Mullion (n.) An upright member of a framing. See Stile.

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