UP, adv.

1. Aloft; on high. But up or down. Milton.
2. Out of bed. He is not up. Shak.
3. Having risen from a seat. Sir Roger was up. Addison.
4. From a state of concealment or discumbiture.
5. In a state of being built. Up with my tent. Shak.
6. Above the horizon. The sun is up.
7. To a state of excitement. He was wrought up to a rage
8. To a state of advance or proficiency. Till we have wrought ourselves up to this degree of Christian indifference. Atterbury.
9. In a state of elevation or exaltation. Those that were up, kept others low. Spenser.
10. In a state of climbing or ascending. We went up to the city or town.
11. In a state of insurrection. The gentle archbishop of York is up. Shak. My soul is up in arms. Dryden.
12. In a state of being increased or raised. The river is up; the flood is up. Dryden.
13. In a state of approaching; as, up comes a fox. L'Estrange.
14. In order. He drew up his regiment.
15. From younger to elder years; as, from his youth up. Up and down, from one place to another; here and there. #2. From one state or position to another; backward and forward. Up to, to an equal highth with; as, up to the chin in water. #2. To a degree or point adequate. Live up to the principles professed. Up with, raise; as, up with the fist; up with the timber. Up is much used to modify the actions expressed by verb; It is very often useful and necessary, very often useless. To bear up, to sustain. To go up, to ascend. To lift up, to raise. To get up, to rise from bed or a seat. To bind up, to bind together. To blow up, to inflate; to distend; to inflame. To grow up, to grow to maturity. Up stream, from the mouth toward the head of a stream; against the stream; hence up is in a direction toward the head of a stream or river; as, up the country. Up sound, in the direction from the sea; opposed to down sound, that is, in the direction of the ebb tide. Up is used elliptically for get up, expressing a command or exhortation. Up, let us be going. Judges xix.

From a lower to a higher place. Go up the hill. Bacon.

1. Aloft] on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down.
   
   

   But up or down,
   By center or eccentric, hard to tell. Milton.

2. From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of.
   
   

   In going up a hill, the knees will be most weary; in going down, the thihgs. Bacon.

3. The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; -- rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs.
   
   
   [Colloq.]

   Ups and downs, alternate states of elevation and depression, or of prosperity and the contrary. [Colloq.]

   They had their ups and downs of fortune. Thackeray.

4. Inclining up; tending or going up; upward; as, an up look; an up grade; the up train.
5. From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied.
   
   

   But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop. Num. xiv. 44.

   I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. Ps. lxxxviii. 15.

   Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. Chaucer.

   We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference. Atterbury.

   (b)

6. From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson.
7. Upon.
   
   
   [Obs.] "Up pain of death." Chaucer.