Uproar
(Up"roar) n. [D. oproer; akin to G. aufruhr, Dan. oprör, Sw. uppror; D. op up + roeren to stir; akin
to AS. hrran to stir, hrr stirring, active, G. rühren to stir, OHG. ruoren, Icel. hræra, Dan. röre, Sw. röra.
Cf. Rearmouse.] [In verse, sometimes accented on the second syllable.] Great tumult; violent disturbance
and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar.
Acts xvii. 5. Uproar
(Up*roar") v. t. To throw into uproar or confusion. [Obs.] "Uproar the universal peace." Shak.
Uproar
(Up*roar"), v. i. To make an uproar. [R.] Carlyle.
Uproarious
(Up*roar"i*ous) a. Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious
merriment.
— Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. — Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
Uproll
(Up*roll") v. t. To roll up. Milton.
Uproot
(Up*root") v. t. To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to
extirpate.
Trees uprooted left their place.
Dryden.
At his command the uprooted hills retired.
Milton. Uprouse
(Up*rouse") v. t. To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse. Shak.
Uprun
(Up*run") v. i. To run up; to ascend.
The young sun
That in the Ram is four degrees uprun.
Chaucer.
[A son] of matchless might, who, like a thriving plant,
Upran to manhood.
Cowper. Uprush
(Up*rush") v. i. To rush upward. Southey.
Uprush
(Up"rush`) n. Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst; as, an uprush of lava. R. A. Proctor.
Upsarokas
(Up`sar*o"kas) n. pl. (Ethnol.) See Crows.
Upseek
(Up*seek") v. i. To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
Upsend
(Up*send") v. t. To send, cast, or throw up.
As when some island situate afar . . .
Upsends a smoke to heaven.
Cowper. Upset
(Up*set") v. t.
1. To set up; to put upright. [Obs.] "With sail on mast upset." R. of Brunne.
2. (a) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end. (b) To shorten (a
tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
3. To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument. "Determined somehow
to upset the situation." Mrs. Humphry Ward.
4. To disturb the self-possession of; to disorder the nerves of; to make ill; as, the fright upset her. [Colloq.]
