1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright
tree.
With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright.
Dryden.
All have their ears upright.
Spenser. 2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.
And that man [Job] was perfect and upright.
Job i. 1. 3. Conformable to moral rectitude.
Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure.
J. M. Mason. 4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. [Obs.] " He lay upright." Chaucer.
Upright drill (Mach.),
a drilling machine having the spindle vertical.
This word and its derivatives are usually pronounced in prose with the accent on the first syllable. But
they are frequently pronounced with the accent on the second in poetry, and the accent on either syllable
is admissible.
Upright
(Up"right`), n. Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of
Frame.
Uprighteously
(Up*right"eous*ly) adv. [See Righteous.] In an upright or just manner. [Obs.] Shak.
Uprightly
(Up"right`ly) adv. In an upright manner.
Uprightness
(Up"right`ness) n. the quality or state of being upright.
Uprise
(Up*rise") v. i.
1. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. "Uprose the sun." Cowley.
Uprose the virgin with the morning light.
Pope. 2. To have an upward direction or inclination.
Uprose the mystic mountain range.
Tennyson. Uprise
(Up*rise"), n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. [R.]
Did ever raven sing so like a lark,
That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?
Shak. Uprising
(Up*ris"ing), n.
1. Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent. "The steep uprising of the hill." Shak.
2. An insurrection; a popular revolt. J. P. Peters.
Uprist
(Up*rist") n. Uprising. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Uprist
(Up*rist"), obs. imp. of Uprise. Uprose. Chaucer.
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head
The glorious sun uprist.
Coleridge.