(d) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent.
Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to spend up (Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (B. Jonson). (e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up your weapons.
Note: Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc., expressing a command or exhortation. "Up, and let us be going." Judg. xix. 28. Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double. Wordsworth. It is all up with him, it is all over with him; he is lost. — The time is up, the allotted time is past. — To be up in, to be informed about; to be versed in. "Anxious that their sons should be well up in the superstitions of two thousand years ago." H. Spencer. — To be up to. (a) To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the business, or the emergency. [Colloq.] (b) To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to. [Colloq.] — To blow up. (a) To inflate; to distend. (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang] — To bring up. See under Bring, v. t. — To come up with. See under Come, v. i. — To cut up. See under Cut, v. t. & i. — To draw up. See under Draw, v. t. — To grow up, to grow to maturity. — Up anchor (Naut.), the order to man the windlass preparatory to hauling up the anchor. — Up and down. (a) First up, and then down; from one state or position to another. See under Down, adv. Fortune . . . led him up and down. Chaucer. (b) (Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; — said of the cable when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse hole, and the cable is taut. Totten. — Up helm (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward the upper, or windward, side of a vessel. — Up to snuff. See under Snuff. [Slang] — What is up What is going on [Slang]
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Up, prep.
1. From a lower to a higher place on, upon, or along; at a higher situation upon; at the top of. In going up a hill, the knees will be most weary; in going down, the thihgs. Bacon.
2. From the coast towards the interior of, as a country; from the mouth towards the source of, as a stream; as, to journey up the country; to sail up the Hudson.
3. Upon. [Obs.] "Up pain of death." Chaucer.
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Up, n.
Defn: The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; — rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs. [Colloq.] Ups and downs, alternate states of elevation and depression, or of prosperity and the contrary. [Colloq.] They had their ups and downs of fortune. Thackeray.
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Up, a.