Category:Upper

Up"per, a.; comp. of up.

Defn: 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.

Upper Up"per, n.

Defn: the upper leather for a shoe; a vamp.