Word Meanings - UPREAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To raise; to erect. Byron.

Related words: (words related to UPREAR)

• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• ERECTILITY
  The quality or state of being erectile.
• ERECTIVE
  Making erect or upright; raising; tending to erect.
• RAISER
  One who, or that which, raises .
• BYRONIC
  Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray
• ERECTO-PATENT
  Having a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.
• ERECTLY
  In an erect manner or posture.
• ERECTOR
  A muscle which raises any part. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, erects.
• ERECTNESS
  Uprightness of posture or form.
• ERECTER
  An erector; one who raises or builds.
• ERECTABLE
  Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.
• ERECTION
  The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue. (more info) 1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall,
• ERECTILE
  Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated. Erectile tissue , a tissue which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by the distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains.
• ERECT
  Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or to the surface to which it is attached. (more info) 1. Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. Two of far nobler shape,
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• FRAISE
  A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• FRAISED
  Fortified with a fraise.
• BRAISE; BRAIZE
  A European marine fish allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• VRAISEMBLANCE
  The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
• APPRAISE
  1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• PREERECT
  To erect beforehand.
• HIGH-RAISED
  1. Elevated; raised aloft; upreared. 2. Elated with great ideas or hopes. Milton.
• REERECT
  To erect again.