Also up-side. [UP- 1. Cf. Da. opside.]
1. The upper side or surface (of a thing); the upper half or part.
1611. Cotgr., Reboursant,… turning, or standing inside outward, or the vpside downe.
1654. in E. B. Jupp, Carpenters’ Co. (1887), 316. Two foote 6 inches from the vpside of the trusse to the vpside of the floore.
1678. Moxon, Mech. Ex., iv. 65. Till the whole upside of the Stuff be Plained.
1706. Swift, Baucis & Philemon, 59. With the upside down, to show Its inclination for below.
1833–. [see DOWNSIDE sb.].
1842. J. Aiton, Clerical Econ., 177. It should then be … put into a dry cloth with the upside down.
1867. Mrs. Whitney, L. Goldthwaite, v. This glass is in such a horrid light! I don’t seem to have but half a face, and I can’t tell which is the upside of that!
2. Upside of, above, beyond.
1890. N. & Q., 26 July, 73/1. People whose ages are up-side of forty.
3. (See UP a. 2 b.) Also attrib.
1880. Daily News, 13 Dec., 6/7. The upside road [of the railway] … was quite clear.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 11 Nov., 7/3. The crowd that thronged the up-side of the station.
