Word Meanings - UPLANDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The upland sandpiper. (more info) 1. One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic.

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• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• RUSTICITY
  The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
• RUSTICLY
  In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.
• DWELL
  AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dvæle to linger, 1. To delay; to linger. 2. To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy
• RUSTICATED
  resembling rustic work. See Rustic work , under Rustic.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• UPLANDISH
  Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands. Chapman. 2. Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized. His presence made the rudest peasant melt, That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt. Marlowe.
• RUSTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. Milton. And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray. She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth. 2. Rude; awkward; rough;
• COUNTRYMAN
  1. An inhabitant or native of a region. Shak. 2. One born in the same country with another; a compatriot; -- used with a possessive pronoun. In perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen. 2 Cor. xi. 26. 3. One who
• UPLANDER
  The upland sandpiper. (more info) 1. One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic.
• SANDPIPER
  Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringid'91. Note: The most important North American species are the pestoral sandpiper , called also
• UPLAND
  1. 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. 2. The country, as
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• DWELLING
  Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jer. xlix. 33. God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men. Milton. Philip's dwelling fronted on the street. Tennyson. Dwelling
• RUSTICATION
  Rustic work. (more info) 1. The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offence, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.
• HENCEFORTH
  From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
• DWELLER
  An inhabitant; a resident; as, a cave dweller. "Dwellers at Jerusalem." Acts i. 19.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• OUTDWELL
  To dwell or stay beyond. "He outdwells his hour." Shak.
• SEA SANDPIPER
  The purple sandpiper.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• INDWELLER
  An inhabitant. Spenser.
• SPEEDWELL
  Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
• WHENCEEVER
  Whencesoever.