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UP, adverb 1. Aloft; on high But up or down - 2. Out of bed. He is not up 3. Having risen from a seat. Sir Roger was up 4. From a state of concealment or discumbiture. 5. In a state of being built. UP with my tent. 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. 9. In a state of elevation or exaltation. Those that were up kept others low. 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 My soul is up in arms. 12. In a state of being increased or raised. The river is up; the flood is up 13. In a state of approaching; as up comes a fox. 14. In order. He drew up his regiment. 15. From younger to elder years; as from his youth up 1. up and down, from one place to another; here and there. 2. From one state or position to another; backwards and forwards. 1. 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; life; as, up with the fist; up with the timber. UP is much used to modify the actions expressed by verbs. 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 towards the head of a stream; against the stream; hence up is in a direction towards 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 19:5. UP, preposition From a lower to a higher place. Go up the hill.