Aloft; on high . But up or down - .

Out of bed. He is not up.

Having risen from a seat. Sir Roger was up.

From a state of concealment or discumbiture.

In a state of being built. Up with my tent.

Above the horizon. The sun is up.

To a state of excitement. He was wrought up to a rage.

To a state of advance or proficiency. - Till we have wrought ourselves up to this degree of christian indifference.

In a state of elevation or exaltation. Those that were up, kept others low.

In a state of climbing or ascending. We went up to the city or town.

In a state of insurrection. The gentle archbishop of York is up. My soul is up in arms.

In a state of being increased or raised. The river is up; the flood is up.

In a state of approaching; as up comes a fox.

In order. He drew up his regiment.

From younger to elder years; as from his youth up.

Up and down, from one place to another; here and there.

From one state or position to another; backwards and forwards.

Up to, to an equal highth with; as up to the chin in water.

To a degree or point adequate. Live up to the principles professed. Up with, raise; life; as, up with the fist; up with the timber. Up is much used to modify the actions expressed by verbs. It is very often useful and necessary; very often useless. To bear up, to sustain. To go up, to ascend. To lift up, to raise. To get up, to rise from bed or a seat. To bind up, to bind together. To blow up, to inflate; to distend; to inflame. To grow up, to grow to maturity. Up stream, from the mouth towards the head of a stream; against the stream; hence up is in a direction towards the head of a stream or river; as up the country. Up sound, in the direction from the sea; opposed to down sound, that is, in the direction of the ebb tide. Up is used elliptically for get up, expressing a command or exhortation. Up, let us be going. Judges 19:28.

From a lower to a higher place. Go up the hill.