Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Up \Up\, adv. [AS. up, upp, ?p; akin to OFries. up, op, D. op,
   OS. ?p, OHG. ?f, G. auf, Icel. ? Sw. upp, Dan. op, Goth. iup,
   and probably to E. over. See {Over}.]
   1. Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of
      gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above;
      -- the opposite of {down}.

            But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to
            tell.                                 --Milton.

   2. Hence, in many derived uses, specifically:
      (a) From a lower to a higher position, literally or
          figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting
          position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a
          river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from
          concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or
          the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or
          implied.

                But they presumed to go up unto the hilltop.
                                                  --Num. xiv.
                                                  44.

                I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth
                up.                               --Ps.
                                                  lxxxviii. 15.

                Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. --Chaucer.

                We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of
                Christian indifference.           --Atterbury.
      (b) In a higher place or position, literally or
          figuratively; in the state of having arisen; in an
          upright, or nearly upright, position; standing;
          mounted on a horse; in a condition of elevation,
          prominence, advance, proficiency, excitement,
          insurrection, or the like; -- used with verbs of rest,
          situation, condition, and the like; as, to be up on a
          hill; the lid of the box was up; prices are up.

                And when the sun was up, they were scorched.
                                                  --Matt. xiii.
                                                  6.

                Those that were up themselves kept others low.
                                                  --Spenser.

                Helen was up -- was she?          --Shak.

                Rebels there are up, And put the Englishmen unto
                the sword.                        --Shak.

                His name was up through all the adjoining
                provinces, even to Italy and Rome; many desiring
                to see who he was that could withstand so many
                years the Roman puissance.        --Milton.

                Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms.
                                                  --Dryden.

                Grief and passion are like floods raised in
                little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly
                up.                               --Dryden.

                A general whisper ran among the country people,
                that Sir Roger was up.            --Addison.

                Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for
                any fate.                         --Longfellow.
      (c) To or in a position of equal advance or equality; not
          short of, back of, less advanced than, away from, or
          the like; -- usually followed by to or with; as, to be
          up to the chin in water; to come up with one's
          companions; to come up with the enemy; to live up to
          engagements.

                As a boar was whetting his teeth, up comes a fox
                to him.                           --L'Estrange.
      (d) To or in a state of completion; completely; wholly;
          quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to
          burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the
          mouth; to sew up a rent.

   Note: Some phrases of this kind are now obsolete; as, to
         spend up (--Prov. xxi. 20); to kill up (--B. Jonson).
      (e) Aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches;
          put up your weapons.

   Note: Up is used elliptically for get up, rouse up, etc.,
         expressing a command or exhortation. ``Up, and let us
         be going.'' --Judg. xix. 28.

               Up, up, my friend! and quit your books, Or surely
               you 'll grow double.               --Wordsworth.

   {It is all up with him}, it is all over with him; he is lost.
      

   {The time is up}, the allotted time is past.

   {To be up in}, to be informed about; to be versed in.
      ``Anxious that their sons should be well up in the
      superstitions of two thousand years ago.'' --H. Spencer.

   {To be up to}.
      (a) To be equal to, or prepared for; as, he is up to the
          business, or the emergency. [Colloq.]
      (b) To be engaged in; to purpose, with the idea of doing
          ill or mischief; as, I don't know what he's up to.
          [Colloq.]

   {To blow up}.
      (a) To inflate; to distend.
      (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath.
      (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up.
      (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang]

   {To bring up}. See under {Bring}, v. t.

   {To come up with}. See under {Come}, v. i.

   {To cut up}. See under {Cut}, v. t. & i.

   {To draw up}. See under {Draw}, v. t.

   {To grow up}, to grow to maturity.

   {Up anchor} (Naut.), the order to man the windlass
      preparatory to hauling up the anchor.

   {Up and down}.
      (a) First up, and then down; from one state or position to
          another. See under {Down}, adv.

                Fortune . . . led him up and down. --Chaucer.
      (b) (Naut.) Vertical; perpendicular; -- said of the cable
          when the anchor is under, or nearly under, the hawse
          hole, and the cable is taut. --Totten.

   {Up helm} (Naut.), the order given to move the tiller toward
      the upper, or windward, side of a vessel.

   {Up to snuff}. See under {Snuff}. [Slang]

   {What is up?} What is going on? [Slang]

[Colloq.]

      An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop
      whenever he can do so with impunity.        --Thomas
                                                  Hamilton.

   {To cut a caper}. See under {Caper}.

   {To cut the cards}, to divide a pack of cards into portions,
      in order to determine the deal or the trump, or to change
      the cards to be dealt.

   {To cut a dash} or {a figure}, to make a display. [Colloq.]
      

   {To cut down}.
      (a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to prostrate.
          ``Timber . . . cut down in the mountains of Cilicia.''
          --Knolles.
      (b) To put down; to abash; to humble. [Obs] ``So great is
          his natural eloquence, that he cuts doun the finest
          orator.'' --Addison
      (c) To lessen; to retrench; to curtail; as, to cut down
          expenses.
      (d) (Naut.) To raze; as, to cut down a frigate into a
          sloop.

   {To cut the knot} or {the Gordian knot}, to dispose of a
      difficulty summarily; to solve it by prompt, arbitrary
      action, rather than by skill or patience.

   {To cut lots}, to determine lots by cuttings cards; to draw
      lots.

   {To cut off}.
      (a) To sever; to separate.

                I would to God, . . . The king had cut off my
                brother's.                        --Shak.
      (b) To put an untimely death; to put an end to; to
          destroy. ``Iren[ae]us was likewise cut off by
          martyrdom.'' --Addison.
      (c) To interrupt; as, to cut off communication; to cut off
          (the flow of) steam from (the boiler to) a steam
          engine.
      (d) To intercept; as,, to cut off an enemy's retreat.
      (e) To end; to finish; as, to cut off further debate.

   {To cut out}.
      (a) To remove by cutting or carving; as, to cut out a
          piece from a board.
      (b) To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment.
          `` A large forest cut out into walks.'' --Addison.
      (c) To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out
          work for another day. ``Every man had cut out a place
          for himself.'' --Addison.
      (d) To step in and take the place of; to supplant; as, to
          cut out a rival. [Colloq.]
      (e) To debar. ``I am cut out from anything but common
          acknowledgments.'' --Pope.
      (f) To seize and carry off (a vessel) from a harbor, or
          from under the guns of an enemy.

   {To cut to pieces}.
      (a) To cut into pieces; as, to cut cloth to pieces.
      (b) To slaughter; as, to cut an army to pieces.

   {To cut a play} (Drama), to shorten it by leaving out
      passages, to adapt it for the stage.

   {To cut rates} (Railroads, etc.), to reduce the charges for
      transportation below the rates established between
      competing lines.

   {To cut short}, to arrest or check abruptly; to bring to a
      sudden termination. ``Achilles cut him short, and thus
      replied.'' --Dryden.

   {To cut stick}, to make off clandestinely or precipitately.
      [Slang]

   {To cut teeth}, to put forth teeth; to have the teeth pierce
      through the gum and appear.

   {To have cut one's eyeteeth}, to be sharp and knowing.
      [Colloq.]

   {To cut one's wisdom teeth}, to come to years of discretion.
      

   {To cut under}, to undersell; as, to cut under a competitor
      in trade.

   {To cut up}.
      (a) To cut to pieces; as, to cut up an animal, or bushes.
      (b) To damage or destroy; to injure; to wound; as, to cut
          up a book or its author by severe criticism. ``This
          doctrine cuts up all government by the roots.''
          --Locke.
      (c) To afflict; to discourage; to demoralize; as, the
          death of his friend cut him up terribly. [Colloq.]
          --Thackeray.

Cut \Cut\ (k[u^]t), v. i.
   1. To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or
      gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

   2. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting
      instrument.

            Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese.
                                                  --Holmes.

   3. To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising,
      intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.

            He saved the lives of thousands by manner of cutting
            for the stone.                        --Pope.

   4. To make a stroke with a whip.

   5. To interfere, as a horse.

   6. To move or make off quickly. [Colloq.]

   7. To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the
      deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be
      dealt.

   {To cut across}, to pass over or through in the most direct
      way; as, to cut across a field.

   {To cut and run}, to make off suddenly and quickly; -- from
      the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to
      raise the anchor. [Colloq.]

   {To cut} {in or into}, to interrupt; to join in anything
      suddenly.

   {To cut up}.
      (a) To play pranks. [Colloq.]
      (b) To divide into portions well or ill; to have the
          property left at one's death turn out well or poorly
          when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. [Slang.]
          ``When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan
          Pendennis.'' --Thackeray.