Up"per , n. The upper leather for a
shoe; a vamp.
Up"per (?), a.;
comp. of Up. Being further up, literally or figuratively;
higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature.
The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To have the upper hand, under Hand. Jowett
(Thucyd.). -- Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.),
the name of the highest court of common law (formerly King's Bench) during the Commonwealth. -- Upper case, the top one of a pair of compositor's cases. See the
Note under 1st Case, n.,
3. -- Upper covert (Zoöl.),
one of the coverts situated above the bases of the
tail quills. -- Upper
deck (Naut.), the
topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck. -- Upper leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of shoes. -- Upper strake
(Naut.), the strake
next to the
deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other strakes. -- Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated) Upper ten, the ten thousand, more or less,
who are highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy. [Colloq.]
-- Upper topsail
(Naut.), the upper
half of a double topsail. -- Upper works (Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are properly above water. -- Upper world. (a)
The atmosphere.
(b) Heaven. (c)
This world; the earth; -- in distinction from the underworld.
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