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n. a California plant (Platystemon californicus) with small pale yellow flowers.
Syn. -- Platystemon californicus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl.; sing. Loup. [ F., prop., a wolf. ] (Ethnol.) The Pawnees, a tribe of North American Indians whose principal totem was the wolf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of doubtful origin. ] A simpleton; a fool. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Ethnol.) See Crows. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. relating to, or characteristic of, affluent people or people in the upper social classes. [ PJC ]

2. expensive or of high quality. [ PJC ]

v. i. To seek or strain upward. “Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To send, cast, or throw up. [ 1913 Webster ]

As when some island situate afar . . .
Upsends a smoke to heaven. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To set up; to put upright. [ Obs. ] “With sail on mast upset.” R. of Brunne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. (b) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument. “Determined somehow to upset the situation.” Mrs. Humphry Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Basketwork) To turn upwards the outer ends of (stakes) so as to make a foundation for the side of a basket or the like; also, to form (the side) in this manner. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. To become upset. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Set up; fixed; determined; -- used chiefly or only in the phrase upset price; that is, the price fixed upon as the minimum for property offered in a public sale, or, in an auction, the price at which property is set up or started by the auctioneer, and the lowest price at which it will be sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

After a solemn pause, Mr. Glossin offered the upset price for the lands and barony of Ellangowan. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of upsetting, or the state of being upset; an overturn; as, the wagon had an upset. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. such as to disturb the self-possession of; unnerving; causing mental distress; as, the sight was an upsetting experience. [ PJC ]

. A thermometer by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered. The column of mercury is broken and, as it remains until the instrument is reset, the reading may be made at leisure. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. To shoot upward. “Trees upshooting high.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Up + shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning. Cf. the phrase to cast up an account. ] Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot of man's pleasurable existence. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The upper side; the part that is uppermost. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the benefits; the positive features; -- said of a situation or event that has both positive (good) and negative (bad) aspects. [ PJC ]

To be upsides with, to be even with. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. T. Hughes. --
Upside down. [ Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down. ] With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. Acts xvii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. in such a manner that the part normally pointed upward is pointed downward; same as upsidown and upsodown. [ PJC ]

a. having the part normally pointed upward pointed downward; inverted. [ PJC ]

adv. See Upsodown. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'y^ psilo`n bare, mere, simple y. ] The 20th letter (Υ, υ) of the Greek alphabet, a vowel having originally the sound of &oomacr_; as in room, becoming before the 4th century b. c. that French u or Ger. ü. Its equivalent in English is u or y. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A sitting up of a woman after her confinement, to receive and entertain her friends. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To invite your lady's upsitting. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An upstart. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To snatch up. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To soar or mount up. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Up + so as + down. ] Upside down. [ Obs. or Colloq. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

In man's sin is every manner order or ordinance turned upsodown. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass. [ R. ] Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To spring up. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An upstart. [ Obs. ] “The swaggering upspring.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A spring or leap into the air. [ R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A spurner or contemner; a despiser; a scoffer. [ Obs. ] Joye. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To stand up; to be erected; to rise. Spenser. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

At once upstood the monarch, and upstood
The wise Ulysses. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous. “Rearing fiercely their upstaring crests.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Suddenly raised to prominence or consequence. “A race of upstart creatures.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To start or spring up suddenly. Spenser. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who has risen suddenly, as from low life to wealth, power, or honor; a parvenu. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The meadow saffron. Dr. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To sustain; to support. [ Obs. ] “His massy spear upstayed.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. & p. p. of Upstart. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Insurrection; commotion; disturbance. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Cheke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet. G. W. Gable. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some upstroke of an Alpha and Omega. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Scots Law) The time during which the sun is up, or above the horizon; the time between sunrise and sunset. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & i. To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms. [ R. ] Shak. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To sway or swing aloft; as, to upsway a club. [ R. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To swell or rise up. [ 1913 Webster ]