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a. [ Cuprum + -ferous. ] Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A trade name. ] A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic; Advil and Motrin and Nuprin are trademarks of brands of ibuprofen tablets. [ Trademark. ]
Syn. -- ibuprofen, isobutylphenyl propionic acid, Advil, Motrin. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Raised up in a ridge or ridges; as, a billow upridged. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. upright, uppriht. See Up, and Right, a. ] 1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

All have their ears upright. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways. [ 1913 Webster ]

And that man [ Job ] was perfect and upright. Job i. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Conformable to moral rectitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure. J. M. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. [ Obs. ] “ He lay upright.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Golf) Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Upright drill (Mach.), a drilling machine having the spindle vertical. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of Frame. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Basketwork) A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. (Football) the vertical part of a goalpost, especially the part above the horizontal bar; as, a field goal directly between the uprights. [ PJC ]

adv. [ See Righteous. ] In an upright or just manner. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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adv. In an upright manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the quality or state of being upright. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. “Uprose the sun.” Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Uprose the virgin with the morning light. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have an upward direction or inclination. [ 1913 Webster ]

Uprose the mystic mountain range. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Did ever raven sing so like a lark,
That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent. “The steep uprising of the hill.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An insurrection; a popular revolt. J. P. Peters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Uprising. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]