[UP- 2.]
1. = UPSHOT sb. 4. Obs. exc. dial.
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., IV. i. 138. Then will shee get the vpshoot by cleauing the pin.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 258. That the chife point of cunning and perfection was in the up-shoot and end of all.
1624. Heywood, Captives, II. i. Hee no questione, That sett mee on to compasse this my will, May when the up-shoote comes assist mee still.
1887. S. Cheshire Gloss., 418. Th’ upshoot on [= of] it.
2. The act of shooting up or the result of this; an upward rush (of something).
1866. Alger, Solit. Nat. & Man, I. 25. A palm, in its resistless upshoot, cleaving altar and image.
1890. Nature, 9 Jan., 228/2. If the individual is the mere … upshoot from the continuous root of ancestral plasm.
1898. Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 29 March, 12/4. The upshoot of flame … was well forward.
