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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
upright \up"right`\, a. as. upright, uppriht. see up, and
   right, a.
   1. in an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical,
      or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.
      1913 webster

            with chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

            all have their ears upright.          --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man
      upright in all his ways.
      1913 webster

            and that man job was perfect and upright. --job i.
                                                  1.
      1913 webster

   3. conformable to moral rectitude.
      1913 webster

            conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure.
                                                  --j. m. mason.
      1913 webster

   4. stretched out face upward; flat on the back. obs. " he
      lay upright." --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   5. golf designating a club in which the head is
      approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   upright drill mach., a drilling machine having the
      spindle vertical.
      1913 webster

   note: this word and its derivatives are usually pronounced in
         prose with the accent on the first syllable. but they
         are frequently pronounced with the accent on the second
         in poetry, and the accent on either syllable is
         admissible.
         1913 webster
see also:
up right upright drill 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
upright \up"right`\, n.
   1. something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a
      building. see illust. of frame.
      1913 webster

   2. basketwork 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 1913 suppl.

   3. football the vertical part of a goalpost, especially the
      part above the horizontal bar; as, a field goal directly
      between the uprights.
      pjc
see also:
frame upright shave 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
upright
     adj 1: in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post" syn:
             unsloped
     2: of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just
        cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the
        nation is secure only while the nation is honest,
        truthful, and virtuous"- frederick douglass syn: good,
        just, virtuous
     3: erect in posture; "behind him sat old man arthur; he was
        straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood
        defiantly with unbowed back" syn: straight, unbent, unbowed
     4: maintaining an erect position; "standing timber"; "many
        buildings were still standing" syn: standing ant: falling
     5: upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect
        flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates
        aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he
        sat bolt upright" syn: erect, vertical ant: unerect
     n 1: a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball
          sailed between the uprights" syn: vertical
     2: a piano with a vertical sounding board syn: upright piano
see also:
unsloped good just virtuous straight unbent 
unbowed standing falling erect vertical 
unerect upright piano 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
244 moby thesaurus words for "upright":
   christian, klavier, samson post, steinway, angelic, arrowlike,
   at attention, azimuth circle, baby grand, baluster, balustrade,
   banister, base, blameless, bolt upright, caryatid, cast up,
   cembalo, clarichord, clavicembalo, clavichord, clavicittern,
   clavicymbal, clavicytherium, clavier, clean, colonnade, column,
   concert grand, conscientious, cottage piano, couched harp,
   creditable, dado, dead straight, decent, die, direct, doorjamb,
   doorpost, downright, dulcimer harpsichord, elevate, elevated,
   endways, endwise, equitable, erect, erectly, estimable, ethical,
   even, exalted, exemplary, fair, flat, footstalk, full of integrity,
   gatepost, godly, good, grand, grand piano, hammer dulcimer,
   harmonichord, harpsichord, high, high-minded, high-principled,
   highly respectable, hitching post, honest, honorable, horizontal,
   immaculate, impartial, in a line, incorruptible, inviolate,
   irreproachable, jack, jamb, just, king post, law-abiding,
   law-loving, law-revering, level, lift up, lifted, lineal, linear,
   lofty, manichord, manichordon, manly, melodion, melopiano,
   milepost, monochord, moral, mullion, newel-post, noble, normal,
   on end, on stilts, orthodiagonal, pair of virginals, parlor grand,
   pedestal, pedicel, peduncle, perpendicular, perpendicularly,
   pianette, pianino, piano, piano-violin, pianoforte, pier, pilaster,
   pile, piling, pillar, pitch, plinth, plumb, pole, post, principled,
   pure, queen-post, raise, raise aloft, raise up, raised, rampant,
   rear, rear aloft, rearing, rectilineal, rectilinear, reputable,
   respectable, right, right angle, right on end, right-minded,
   righteous, ruler-straight, saintlike, saintly, scrupulous,
   seraphic, set up, shaft, signpost, smooth, snubbing post, socle,
   sostinente pianoforte, spinet, spotless, square piano, staff,
   stainless, stalk, stanchion, stand, stand upright, stand-up,
   standard, standing up, stem, sterling, stile, stilted, straight,
   straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, straight-up,
   straightforward, streamlined, subbase, sublime, surbase, true,
   true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled,
   true-spirited, truehearted, trunk, trustworthy, unbending, unbent,
   unblemished, unbowed, unbroken, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, uncurved,
   undefiled, undeflected, undeviating, undistorted, unimpeachable,
   uninterrupted, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unswerving,
   untarnished, unturned, up, up on end, upcast, upend, upended,
   upflung, upheave, uplift, uplifted, upraise, upraised, uprear,
   upreared, upright piano, uprighteous, uprightly, upstanding,
   upstandingly, upthrown, upwards, vertical, vertical circle,
   violin piano, virginal, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly





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