英文英文字典
英文英文字典
古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
字典
Uphold
(v. t.)
To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
Uphold
(v. t.)
To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from
falling; to maintain.
Uphold
(v. t.)
To aid by approval or encouragement; to countenance; as,
to uphold a person in wrongdoing.
Upholder
(n.)
A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman.
Upholder
(n.)
An undertaker, or provider for funerals.
Upholder
(n.)
An upholsterer.
Upholder
(n.)
One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender;
a sustainer.
Upholster
(v. t.)
To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs,
etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with
furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to
upholster a room with curtains.
Upholster
(n.)
A broker.
Upholster
(n.)
An upholsterer.
Upholsterer
(n.)
One who provides hangings, coverings, cushions,
curtains, and the like; one who upholsters.
Upholstery
(n.)
The articles or goods supplied by upholsterers; the
business or work of an upholsterer.
Uphroe
(n.)
Same as Euphroe.
Upland
(n.)
High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals
which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land
which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp,
interval, and the like.
Upland
(n.)
The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of
towns.
Upland
(a.)
Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in
situation; as, upland inhabitants; upland pasturage.
Upland
(a.)
Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the
neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.
Uplander
(n.)
One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a
rustic.
Uplander
(n.)
The upland sandpiper.
Uplandish
(a.)
Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.