Word Meanings - UPCLIMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson.
Related words: (words related to UPCLIMB)
- ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
See ASCENDENCY - SHADOWY
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon - CLIMB
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with - ASCENDENCY
Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination. - ASCENDIBLE
Capable of being ascended; climbable. - ABOVEBOARD
Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands - ABOVESAID
Mentioned or recited before. - WOVEN
p. p. of Weave. Woven paper, or Wove paper, writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks. - ASCENDING
Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude , the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line , the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and - ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid. - CLIMBABLE
Capable of being climbed. - COPSE
A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith. - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. - ABOVEDECK
On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart. - CLIMBING
p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. Climbing fern. See under Fern. -- Climbing perch. See Anabas, and Labyrinthici. - COPSEWOOD
Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay. - ASCEND
Etym: 1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17. Note: Formerly used with up. The smoke of it ascended up to - CLIMBER
One who, or that which, climbs: A plant that climbs. A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot. - ASCENDABLE
Capable of being ascended. - ASCENDANT; ASCENDENT
1. Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. Browne. 2. Rising; ascending. Ruskin. 3. Superior; surpassing; ruling. An ascendant spirit over him. South. The ascendant community obtained - OUTCLIMB
To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant. - OVERSHADOWY
Overshadowing. - UPCLIMB
To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson. - REASCEND
To rise, mount, or climb again. - OVERCLIMB
To climb over. Surrey.