adv. and a. Now dial. Also 5 vppyr-, vppermare, vpher more, 6 Sc. vppermair, -mer, vppirmer, 7 vppermere, 9 north. dial. uppermer. [f. UPPER adv. and a. + -MORE. Cf. older Da. yppermere.]
A. adv. Higher locally; further up; at or to a greater altitude. (In later use Sc.)
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xiv. 63. Vppermare amanges þe mountaynes es a faire citee.
c. 1410. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), xxi. Þat þe flewe be iii. or iiii. fyngres vppermore þanne þe heed.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, I. x. 20. Bettyr it is … þat criste … to vs say, ‘frende, cum vppyrmare.’
1501. Douglas, Pal. Hon., III. v. Weil I considderit na vppermair I micht, And to discend sa hiddeous was the hicht, I durst not auenture.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 30. Abone or vppirmer, vpon Leuin, is the toune.
1616. Barbour’s Bruce (Hart), II. 440. To that word they assented all, And from them walloped vppermere.
B. adj. That is the more elevated (of two); higher, upper.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xx. 90 Bathe þe emisperies, þe vppermare and þe nedermare.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 44. After þat þe vppermore iuncture of þe bone of þe fynger was drawen out.
1869–. in north. dialect use (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
