Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 30

Upspear (v. i.) To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass.

Upspring (v. i.) To spring up.

Upspring (n.) An upstart.

Upspring (n.) A spring or leap into the air.

Upspurner (n.) A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer.

Upstairs (adv.) Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

Upstairs (a.) Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.

Upstand (v. i.) To stand up; to be erected; to rise.

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

Upstart (v. i.) To start or spring up suddenly.

Upstart (n.) One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu.

Upstart (n.) The meadow saffron.

Upstart (a.) Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence.

Upstay (v. t.) To sustain; to support.

Upsterte () imp. & p. p. of Upstart.

Upstir (n.) Insurrection; commotion; disturbance.

Upstream (adv.) Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.

Upstreet (adv.) Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet.

Upstroke (n.) An upward stroke, especially the stroke, or line, made by a writing instrument when moving upward, or from the body of the writer, or a line corresponding to the part of a letter thus made.

Upsun (n.) The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset.

Upswarm (v. i. & i.) To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms.

Upsway (v. t.) To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club.

Upswell (v. i.) To swell or rise up.

Upsyturvy (adv.) Upside down; topsy-turvy.

Uptails all () An old game at cards.

Uptails all () Revelers; roysterers.

Uptails all () Revelry; confusion; frolic.

Uptake (v. t.) To take into the hand; to take up; to help.

Uptake (n.) The pipe leading upward from the smoke box of a steam boiler to the chimney, or smokestack; a flue leading upward.

Uptake (n.) Understanding; apprehension.

Uptear (v. t.) To tear up.

Upthrow (v. t.) To throw up.

Upthrow (n.) See Throw, n., 9.

Upthunder (v. i.) To send up a noise like thunder.

Uptie (v. t.) To tie up.

Uptill (prep.) To; against.

Uptown (adv.) To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown.

Uptown (a.) Situated in, or belonging to, the upper part of a town or city; as, a uptown street, shop, etc.; uptown society.

Uptrace (v. t.) To trace up or out.

Uptrain (v. t.) To train up; to educate.

Up-train () A train going in the direction of the metropolis or the main terminus.

Up-train () A train going in the direction conventionally called up.

Upturn (v. t.) To turn up; to direct upward; to throw up; as, to upturn the ground in plowing.

Upupa (n.) A genus of birds which includes the common hoopoe.

Upwaft (v. t.) To waft upward.

Upward (adv.) Alt. of Upwards

Upwards (adv.) In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.

Upwards (adv.) In the upper parts; above.

Upwards (adv.) Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.

Upward (a.) Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

Upward (n.) The upper part; the top.

Upwhirl (v. t. & i.) To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.

Upwind (v. t.) To wind up.

Upwreath (v. i.) To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke.

Upyat () imp. of Upgive.

Ur (n.) Alt. of Ure

Ure (n.) The urus.

Urachus (n.) A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.

Uraemia (n.) Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.

Uraemic (a.) Of or pertaining to uraemia; as, uraemic convulsions.

Uraeum (n.) The posterior half of an animal.

Ural (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia.

Ural-Altaic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.

Urali (n.) See Curare.

Uralian (a.) Alt. of Uralic

Uralic (a.) Of or relating to the Ural Mountains.

Uralite (n.) Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.

Uralitization (n.) The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.

Uramil (n.) Murexan.

Uranate (n.) A salt of uranic acid.

Urania (n.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.

Urania (n.) A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.

Uranian (a.) Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.

Uranic (a.) Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.

Uranic (a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium; specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds.

Uranin (n.) An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar yellowish green fluorescence (resembling that of uranium glass) of its solutions. See Fluorescein.

Uraninite (n.) A mineral consisting chiefly of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.

Uraniscoplasty (n.) The process of forming an artificial palate.

Uraniscoraphy (n.) Alt. of Uraniscorrhaphy

Uraniscorrhaphy (n.) Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.

Uranite (n.) A general term for the uranium phosphates, autunite, or lime uranite, and torbernite, or copper uranite.

Uranitic (a.) Of or pertaining to uranium; containing uranium.

Uranium (n.) An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239.

Uran-ocher (n.) Alt. of Uran-ochre

Uran-ochre (n.) A yellow, earthy incrustation, consisting essentially of the oxide of uranium, but more or less impure.

Uranographic (a.) Alt. of Uranographical

Uranographical (a.) Of or pertaining to uranography; as, an uranographic treatise.

Uranographist (n.) One practiced in uranography.

Uranography (n.) A description or plan of the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the construction of celestial maps, globes, etc.; uranology.

Uranolite (n.) A meteorite or aerolite.

Uranology (n.) A discourse or treatise on the heavens and the heavenly bodies; the study of the heavens; uranography.

Uranometria (n.) A uranometry.

Uranometry (n.) A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.

Uranoplasty (n.) The plastic operation for closing a fissure in the hard palate.

Uranoscopy (n.) Observation of the heavens or heavenly bodies.

Uranoso- (a.) A combining form (also used adjectively) from uranium; -- used in naming certain complex compounds; as in uranoso-uranic oxide, uranoso-uranic sulphate.

Uranous (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, uranium; designating those compounds in which uranium has a lower valence as contrasted with the uranic compounds.

Uranus (n.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans.

Uranus (n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years.

Uran-utan () The orang-utang

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