Defn: To shoot upward. "Trees upshooting high." Spenser.
UPSHOT
Up"shot`, n. Etym: [Up + shot, equivalent to scot share, reckoning.
Cf. the phrase to cast up an account.]
Defn: Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the
result; the consummation.
I can not pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Shak.
We account it frailty that threescore years and ten make the upshot
of man's pleasurable existence. De Quincey.
UPSIDE
Up"side`, n.
Defn: The upper side; the part that is uppermost. To be upsides with, to be even with. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott. T. Hughes. — Upside down. Etym: [Perhaps a corruption of OE. up so down, literally, up as down.] With the upper part undermost; hence, in confusion; in complete disorder; topsy-turvy. Shak. These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. Acts xvii. 6.
UPSIDOWN
Up"si*down`, adv.
Defn: See Upsodown. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.
UPSILON
Up"si*lon, n. [Gr. 'y^ psilo`n bare, mere, simple y.]
Defn: The 20th letter (U, u) of the Greek alphabet, a vowel having originally the sound of oo as in room, becoming before the 4th century b. c. that French u or Ger. ü. Its equivalent in English is u or y.
UPSITTING
Up"sit`ting, n.