Upper definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary UP'PER, a. [comp. from up.] 1. Higher in place; as the upper lip; the upper side of a thing. An upper story is a higher one; the upper story is the highest. So the upper deck of a ship. 2. Superior in rank or ...
upper deck definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a ... guns are carried. If there are two gun decks, the upper one is called the main deck, the lower, the lower ... mainmast and the cabin. Hurricane deck (River Steamers, etc.), the upper deck, usually a light deck, erected above the frame of ... roof of a poop or poop cabin, built on the upper deck and extending from the mizzenmast aft. Quarter-deck, the part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. Spar deck. (a) Same as the upper deck. (b) Sometimes a light deck fitted over the ...
upper case definitions Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1683 a type ... small capitals, fractions, symbols, and accents Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
UPPER CHAMBER; UPPER ROOM definitions International Standard Bible Encyclopedia up'-er cham'-ber ... Revised Version renders "summer parlor" and in the margin "Hebrew: `Upper chamber of cooling.'" This was probably a roof-chamber. The "upper chamber" of Ahaziah in 2Ki 1:2 was evidently in the 2nd story of the building. On the "upper chambers" of the temple (1Ch 28:11; 2Ch 3:9), see TEMPLE. The "large upper room" which was the scene of the Last Supper, ...
Upper covert definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
Upper works definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
Upper leather definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
The upper hand definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
Upper topsail definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
Upper world definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
Upper strake definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
Upper Bench definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
Upper ten definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
Upper ten thousand definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Upper Up"per, a.; comp. of Up. Being further up, literally ... place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the ...
upper crust definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the ... class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy [syn: upper class, upper crust] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1836 the highest social class or group; especially the highest circle of the upper class • upper-crust adjective Collin's Cobuild Dictionary also upper-crust The upper crust are the upper classes. (INFORMAL) ... ...