upmaking (upmaking)

In ship- building, pieces of plank or timber piled one on another as a filling up, especially those placed between the bilge ways and a ship's bottom preparatory o launching. upmost (up'most), a. superl. [ uppermost .] Highest; topmost; uppermost. Lowline is young ambition's ladder, Wherto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back. Shak ., J. C., ii. 1. 24. upon (u-pon'), prep. and adv. [ The hyze trone ther mozt ze hede... The hyze godez self hit set vpone . Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1053. Two theues also tholed deth that tynie, Vppon a cro e bisydes Cryst, so was the comune lawe. Piers Plowman (B), xviii. 71. We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, Painted upon a pole, and under writ, "Here may you see the tyrant." Shak., Macbeth, v. 7. 26. O Angels, clap your wings upon the skyes, And giue this Virgin Christ all plaudities. C. Tourneur, Revenger's Tragedy, ii. 1. Four brave Southron foragers IMG:content-1600.png:[blocks in formation] The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; - on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone. M. Arnold , Dover Beach. To beatt, blow, fall, pa , etc., upon. See the verbs. Upon an average, a thought, occasion, one's hands, one's oath, etc. See the nouns. II.f adv . Hereupon; thereupon; onward; on. Til May it wol suffice uppon to fede, But lenger not thenne Marche if it shal sede.