Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 28

Unwitting (a.) Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant.

Unwoman (v. t.) To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex.

Unwonder (v. t.) To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain.

Unwont (a.) Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed.

Unwonted (a.) Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers.

Unwonted (a.) Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as, unwonted changes.

Unwork (v. t.) To undo or destroy, as work previously done.

Unworldly (a.) Not worldly; spiritual; holy.

Unwormed (a.) Not wormed; not having had the worm, or lytta, under the tongue cut out; -- said of a dog.

Unworship (v. t.) To deprive of worship or due honor; to dishonor.

Unworship (n.) Lack of worship or respect; dishonor.

Unworth (a.) Unworthy.

Unworth (n.) Unworthiness.

Unworthy (a.) Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of.

Unwrap (v. t.) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

Unwray (v. t.) See Unwrie.

Unwreathe (v. t.) To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed.

Unwrie (v. t.) To uncover.

Unwrinkle (v. t.) To reduce from a wrinkled state; to smooth.

Unwrite (v. t.) To cancel, as what is written; to erase.

Unwritten (a.) Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements.

Unwritten (a.) Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper.

Unwroken (a.) Not revenged; unavenged.

Unyoke (v. t.) To loose or free from a yoke.

Unyoke (v. t.) To part; to disjoin; to disconnect.

Unyoked (a.) Not yet yoked; not having worn the yoke.

Unyoked (a.) Freed or loosed from a yoke.

Unyoked (a.) Licentious; unrestrained.

Unyolden (a.) Not yielded.

Unzoned (a.) Not zoned; not bound with a girdle; as, an unzoned bosom.

Up (adv.) Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down.

Up (adv.) From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied.

Up (adv.) In a higher place or position, literally or figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an upright, or nearly upright, position; standing; mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation, prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement, insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest, situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up.

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.

Up (adv.) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent.

Up (adv.) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.

Up (prep.) From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of.

Up (prep.) From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson.

Up (prep.) Upon.

Up (n.) The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; -- rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs.

Up (a.) Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.

Upas (n.) A tree (Antiaris toxicaria) of the Breadfruit family, common in the forests of Java and the neighboring islands. Its secretions are poisonous, and it has been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.

Upas (n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).

Upbar (v. t.) To fasten with a bar.

Upbar (v. t.) To remove the bar or bards of, as a gate; to under.

Upbear (v. t.) To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain.

Upbind (v. t.) To bind up.

Upblow (v. t.) To inflate.

Upblow (v. i.) To blow up; as, the wind upblows from the sea.

Upbraided (imp. & p. p.) of Upbraid

Upbraiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Upbraid

Upbraid (v. t.) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach; to cast something in the teeth of; -- followed by with or for, and formerly of, before the thing imputed.

Upbraid (v. t.) To reprove severely; to rebuke; to chide.

Upbraid (v. t.) To treat with contempt.

Upbraid (v. t.) To object or urge as a matter of reproach; to cast up; -- with to before the person.

Upbraid (v. i.) To utter upbraidings.

Upbraid (n.) The act of reproaching; contumely.

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

Upbreak (n.) A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.

Upbreathe (v. r.) To breathe up or out; to exhale.

Upbreed (v. t.) To rear, or bring up; to nurse.

Upbrought (a.) Brought up; educated.

Upbuoyance (n.) The act of buoying up; uplifting.

Upburst (n.) The act of bursting upwards; a breaking through to the surface; an upbreak or uprush; as, an upburst of molten matter.

Upcast (a.) Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes.

Upcast (n.) A cast; a throw.

Upcast (n.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft.

Upcast (n.) An upset, as from a carriage.

Upcast (n.) A taunt; a reproach.

Upcast (v. t.) To cast or throw up; to turn upward.

Upcast (v. t.) To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.

Upcaught (a.) Seized or caught up.

Upcheer (v. t.) To cheer up.

Upclimb (v. t. & i.) To climb up; to ascend.

Upcoil (v. t. & i.) To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.

Upcountry (adv.) In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry.

Upcountry (a.) Living or situated remote from the seacoast; as, an upcountry residence.

Upcountry (n.) The interior of the country.

Upcurl (v. t.) To curl up.

Updive (v. i.) To spring upward; to rise.

Updraw (v. t.) To draw up.

Upend (v. t.) To end up; to set on end, as a cask.

Upeygan (n.) The borele.

Upfill (v. t.) To fill up.

Upflow (v. i.) To flow or stream up.

Upflung (a.) Flung or thrown up.

Upgather (v. t.) To gather up; to contract; to draw together.

Upgaze (v. i.) To gaze upward.

Upgive (v. t.) To give up or out.

Upgrow (v. i.) To grow up.

Upgrowth (n.) The process or result of growing up; progress; development.

Upgush (n.) A gushing upward.

Upgush (v. i.) To gush upward.

Uphaf () imp. of Upheave.

Uphand (a.) Lifted by the hand, or by both hands; as, the uphand sledge.

Uphang (v. t.) To hang up.

Uphasp (v. t.) To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes.

Upheaped (a.) Piled up; accumulated.

Upheaval (n.) The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust.

Upheave (v. t.) To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise.

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