Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Upright \Up"right`\, a. (Golf)
   Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a
   right angle with the shaft.

Upright \Up"right`\, n. (Basketwork)
   A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at
   both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the
   cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to
   skeins. Called in full {upright shave}.

Upright \Up"right`\, a. [AS. upright, uppriht. See {Up}, and
   {Right}, a.]
   1. In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical,
      or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree.

            With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright.
                                                  --Dryden.

            All have their ears upright.          --Spenser.

   2. Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man
      upright in all his ways.

            And that man [Job] was perfect and upright. --Job i.
                                                  1.

   3. Conformable to moral rectitude.

            Conscience rewards upright conduct with pleasure.
                                                  --J. M. Mason.

   4. Stretched out face upward; flat on the back. [Obs.] `` He
      lay upright.'' --Chaucer.

   {Upright drill} (Mach.), a drilling machine having the
      spindle vertical.

   Note: This word and its derivatives are usually pronounced in
         prose with the accent on the first syllable. But they
         are frequently pronounced with the accent on the second
         in poetry, and the accent on either syllable is
         admissible.

Upright \Up"right`\, n.
   Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a
   building. See Illust. of {Frame}.

Source : WordNet®

upright
     adj 1: in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post" [syn:
             {unsloped}]
     2: of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just
        cause"; "an upright and respectable man"; "the life of the
        nation is secure only while the nation is honest,
        truthful, and virtuous"- Frederick Douglass [syn: {good},
        {just}, {virtuous}]
     3: erect in posture; "behind him sat old man Arthur; he was
        straight with something angry in his attitude"; "stood
        defiantly with unbowed back" [syn: {straight}, {unbent}, {unbowed}]
     4: maintaining an erect position; "standing timber"; "many
        buildings were still standing" [syn: {standing}] [ant: {falling}]
     5: upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect
        flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates
        aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he
        sat bolt upright" [syn: {erect}, {vertical}] [ant: {unerect}]

upright
     n 1: a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball
          sailed between the uprights" [syn: {vertical}]
     2: a piano with a vertical sounding board [syn: {upright piano}]