[f. prec. Cf. OE. uprihte.]
1. = UPRIGHTLY adv. 1.
1509. Hawes, Conv. Swearers, ix. I sende you gretynge … & grace Right wel to gouern vpright your dominion.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., I. (1586), 2. All seeke to lyue, but none to live upryght.
1591. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. I. 76. That thay may leif togidder in luif, upricht to God.
1624. J. Davies, Ps. xiv. Not one doth good, not one doth well, vpright.
† b. In a just manner; correctly. Obs.–1
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 585. In truth, if we will consider this pageant upright, we must needs confesse [etc.].
2. In a vertical direction; vertically upwards.
1590. Webbe, Trav. (Arb.), 22. Ye wonderfull … swelling of the water vpright … to ye height of a huge mountaine.
1591. J. Dee, Diary (Camden), 38. Wownded on his hed by his own wanton throwing of a brik-bat upright, and not well avoyding the fall of it.
1605. Shaks., Lear, IV. vi. 27. For all beneath the Moone would I not leape vpright.
1664. Butler, Hud., II. III. 437. That Cannon-Ball,… shot in th’ Air point-blank, upright.
1715. Desaguliers, Fires Impr., 12. As for the Rays that go upright, nothing can hinder them from getting out at top of the Chimney.
1736. Gray, Statius, I. 45. Nor tempts he yet the plain, but hurl’d upright, Emits the mass.
Comb. 1842. Loudon, Suburban Hort., 352. In the case of upright-grown plants. Ibid., 549. The pear is grafted or budded on stocks raised … from any strong upright-growing kind.
3. dial. Independently; on one’s own means.
1823. E. Moor, Suffolk Words, 460. A live upright on ’a’s forten.
1896. Westm. Gaz., 28 April, 2/1. I shall be able to retire and ‘live upright,’ as the butler said.
