uplean

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ lean.

Verb

uplean (third-person singular simple present upleans, present participle upleaning, simple past and past participle upleant or upleaned)

(transitive, intransitive, literary) To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.
- 1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193,
  The western sky is wallen
  With shadowy mountains, built upon the marge
  Of the horizon, from eve’s purple sheen,
  And thin gray clouds, that daringly uplean
  Their silver cones upon the crimson verge
  Of the high zenith,
- 1856, Gold-Pen (pseudonym), “My Cottage” in Poems, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 2nd edition, pp. 188-189,
  I forced the slowly yielding door
  That ope’d on Sabbath morn no more,
  And found all that the winds withstood,
  Was an upleaning piece of wood.
- 1895, Orelia Key Bell, “And every morning as I passed her bower” in Poems, Philadelphia: Rodgers, p. 181,
  […] that liquid cadency
  Seep’d thro’ the casement to the birds and me,
  Who upleaning drank, and drinking upleaned more.
- 1902, George Macdonald Major, “A Chinatown Idyll” in Lays of Chinatown, New York: The Lloyd Press, 2nd edition, p. 64,
  A rakish hat was tilted o’er his eyes.
  A cigarette, with intermittent fire,
  Upleaned to meet it from his stern set lips.
- 1912, John Muir, The Yosemite, New York: Century, 1920, Chapter 14, p. 244,
  […] the snow which covered the glacier was melted into upleaning, icy blades which were extremely difficult to cross […]
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To lean (on something).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 322:
  With that vpleaning on her elbow weake,
  Her alablaster brest she soft did kis,
- 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgils Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294:
  […] thus his carelesse time
  This shepheard driues, vpleaning on his batt,
  And on shrill reedes chaunting his rustick rime,

Anagrams

Lupane, Nepaul, lupane, unpale

单词	uplean
释义	uplean English Etymology From up- +‎ lean. Verb uplean (third-person singular simple present upleans, present participle upleaning, simple past and past participle upleant or upleaned) (transitive, intransitive, literary) To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward. 1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193, The western sky is wallen With shadowy mountains, built upon the marge Of the horizon, from eve’s purple sheen, And thin gray clouds, that daringly uplean Their silver cones upon the crimson verge Of the high zenith, 1856, Gold-Pen (pseudonym), “My Cottage” in Poems, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 2nd edition, pp. 188-189, I forced the slowly yielding door That ope’d on Sabbath morn no more, And found all that the winds withstood, Was an upleaning piece of wood. 1895, Orelia Key Bell, “And every morning as I passed her bower” in Poems, Philadelphia: Rodgers, p. 181, […] that liquid cadency Seep’d thro’ the casement to the birds and me, Who upleaning drank, and drinking upleaned more. 1902, George Macdonald Major, “A Chinatown Idyll” in Lays of Chinatown, New York: The Lloyd Press, 2nd edition, p. 64, A rakish hat was tilted o’er his eyes. A cigarette, with intermittent fire, Upleaned to meet it from his stern set lips. 1912, John Muir, The Yosemite, New York: Century, 1920, Chapter 14, p. 244, […] the snow which covered the glacier was melted into upleaning, icy blades which were extremely difficult to cross […] (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To lean (on something). 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 322: With that vpleaning on her elbow weake, Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgils Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294: […] thus his carelesse time This shepheard driues, vpleaning on his batt, And on shrill reedes chaunting his rustick rime, Anagrams Lupane, Nepaul, lupane, unpale
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