Upright

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Conformable to moral rectitude.

II. Upright ·adj Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.

III. Upright ·adj Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways.

IV. Upright ·noun Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. ·see ·Illust. of Frame.

V. Upright ·add. ·adj Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

VI. Upright ·adj In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.

VII. Upright ·add. ·noun 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's Dictionary of the English Language

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