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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Anticipation :: Anticipation (n.) The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order..
Scapular :: Scapular (n.) One of a special group of feathers which arise from each of the scapular regions and lie along the sides of the back.
Supererogatory :: Supererogative (a.) Supererogatory.
Much :: Much (Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by) High in rank or position..
Bracket :: Bracket (n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles..
Gastromancy :: Gastromancy (n.) A species of divination, by means of glasses or other round, transparent vessels, in the center of which figures are supposed to appear by magic art..
Dismember :: Dismember (v. t.) To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.
Septuple :: Septuple (v. t.) To multiply by seven; to make sevenfold.
Empyrean :: Empyrean (n.) The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist..
Shovel :: Shovel (v. t.) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit..
Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
Coffeepot :: Coffeepot (n.) A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking..
Synizesis :: Synizesis (n.) An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
Eradicate :: Eradicate (v. t.) To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated..
Intrenchment :: Intrenchment (n.) Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.
Interrupt :: Interrupt (v. t.) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill..
Hard :: Hard (superl.) Not easy or agreeable to the taste; stiff; rigid; ungraceful; repelling; as, a hard style..
Suboctuple :: Suboctave (a.) Alt. of Suboctupl.
Discomfit :: Discomfit (v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger..
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