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Upstare :: Upstare (v. i.) To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous..

Unicostate :: Unicostate (a.) Having a single rib or strong nerve running upward from the base; -- said of a leaf.

Uplead :: Uplead (v. t.) To lead upward.

Caltrap :: Caltrap (n.) An instrument with four iron points, so disposed that, any three of them being on the ground, the other projects upward. They are scattered on the ground where an enemy's cavalry are to pass, to impede their progress by endangering the horses' feet..

Upbreak :: Upbreak (v. i.) To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.

Assurgent :: Assurgent (a.) rising obliquely; curving upward.

Excelsior :: Excelsior (v. t.) More lofty; still higher; ever upward.

Knee-high :: Knee-high (a.) Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high..

Cyclamen :: Cyclamen (n.) A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbits' ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms..

Basset :: Basset (a.) Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata..

Quarte :: Quarte (n.) A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast..

Upshoot :: Upshoot (v. i.) To shoot upward.

Supped :: Sunwise (adv.) In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward..

Antiperistaltic :: Antiperistaltic (a.) Opposed to, or checking motion; acting upward; -- applied to an inverted action of the intestinal tube..

Whirlwind :: Whirlwind (n.) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait..

Sny :: Sny (n.) An upward bend in a piece of timber; the sheer of a vessel.

Advance :: Advance (v.) The act of advancing or moving forward or upward; progress.

Heave :: Heave (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like..

Recurvirostral :: Recurvirostral (a.) Having the beak bent upwards.

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