upleap (uplep)

i. [ uplift (up-lift'), v. t. To lift or raise up; raise; elevate: literally or figuratively: as, to uplift the arm; uplifted eyes. Earth Uplifts a general cry for guilt and wrong, And heaven is listening. Bryant , Earth. And shall not joy uplift me when I lead The flocks of Christ by the still streams to feed? Jones Very, Poems, p. 100. [Rare.] uplift (up-lift'), a. Uplifted. With head uplift above the wave. Milton , P. L., i. 193. We humbly screen With uplift hands our foreheads. Keats , Endymion, i. uplift (upʻlift), n. 1. An upheaval. See up heaval . A geologically sudden, high uplift of the northeastern part of the continent. Amer . Jour . Sci ., 3d ser., XLI. 40. 2. Raising; elevation; mental, moral, or physical exaltation. The rapidity of the uplift in health in many of the cases. Lancet, No. 3448, p. 661. IMG:content-1599.png:[blocks in formation] It takes stalwart and uplooking faith to make history [such as the Puritans made]. Phelps , My Study, p. 294. uplying (up'li"ing), a. Elevated; of land, upland. In up- lying situations, where the drift consists of raw material, fluxion-structures are seldom detected. Nature , XXX. 530.