Definition of up

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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..

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Deposit :: Deposit (n.) To lay up or away for safe keeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse..
Garnishee :: Garnishee (n.) One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money..
Inscient :: Inscient (a.) Having little or no knowledge; ignorant; stupid; silly.
Staynil :: Staymaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make stays.
Canker :: Canker (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy..
Buccaneer :: Buccaneer (n.) A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on the Spaniards in America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Promptuary :: Promptuary (a.) That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository.
Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Limbus :: Limbus (n.) An extramundane region where certain classes of souls were supposed to await the judgment.
Sycamine :: Sybaritism (n.) Luxuriousness; effeminacy; wantonness; voluptuousness.
Myrmidon :: Myrmidon (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc..
Discontinue :: Discontinue (v. i.) To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off.
Superfetate :: Superfecundity (n.) Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species.
Connive :: Connive (v. i.) To close the eyes upon a fault; to wink (at); to fail or forbear by intention to discover an act; to permit a proceeding, as if not aware of it; -- usually followed by at..
Duplicate :: Duplicate (v. t.) To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.
Forbear :: Forbear (v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety..
Low :: Low (superl.) Wanting strength or animation; depressed; dejected; as, low spirits; low in spirits..
Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep..
Puppied :: Puppied (imp. & p. p.) of Pupp.
Sarcophaga :: Sarcophaga (n. pl.) A suborder of carnivorous and insectivorous marsupials including the dasyures and the opossums.
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