資料來源 : 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]
Blow \Blow\, v. i. [imp. {Blew} (bl[=u]); p. p. {Blown}
(bl[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blowing}.] [OE. blawen, blowen,
AS. bl[=a]wan to blow, as wind; akin to OHG. pl[=a]jan, G.
bl["a]hen, to blow up, swell, L. flare to blow, Gr.
'ekflai`nein to spout out, and to E. bladder, blast, inflate,
etc., and perh. blow to bloom.]
1. To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move
rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
Hark how it rains and blows ! --Walton.
2. To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth
or from a pair of bellows.
3. To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and
blowing. --Shak.
4. To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
There let the pealing organ blow. --Milton.
5. To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
6. To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in
from the street.
The grass blows from their graves to thy own. --M.
Arnold.
7. To talk loudly; to boast; to storm. [Colloq.]
You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything
to my face. --Bartlett.
{To blow hot and cold} (a saying derived from a fable of
[AE]sop's), to favor a thing at one time and treat it
coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to
oppose.
{To blow off}, to let steam escape through a passage provided
for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off.
{To blow out}.
(a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or
vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out.
(b) To talk violently or abusively. [Low]
{To blow over}, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be
dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over.
{To blow up}, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as
by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of
steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam
boiler blows up. ``The enemy's magazines blew up.''
--Tatler.
Blow \Blow\, v. t.
1. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other
means; as, to blow the fire.
2. To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew
the ship ashore.
Off at sea northeast winds blow Sabean odors from
the spicy shore. --Milton.
3. To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth,
or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as,
to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.
Hath she no husband That will take pains to blow a
horn before her? --Shak.
Boy, blow the pipe until the bubble rise, Then cast
it off to float upon the skies. --Parnell.
4. To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow
an egg; to blow one's nose.
5. To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually
with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a
building.
6. To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
Through the court his courtesy was blown. --Dryden.
His language does his knowledge blow. --Whiting.
7. To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to
blow bubbles; to blow glass.
8. To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
Look how imagination blows him. --Shak.
9. To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as,
to blow a horse. --Sir W. Scott.
10. To deposit eggs or larv[ae] upon, or in (meat, etc.).
To suffer The flesh fly blow my mouth. --Shak.
{To blow great guns}, to blow furiously and with roaring
blasts; -- said of the wind at sea or along the coast.
{To blow off}, to empty (a boiler) of water through the
blow-off pipe, while under steam pressure; also, to eject
(steam, water, sediment, etc.) from a boiler.
{To blow one's own trumpet}, to vaunt one's own exploits, or
sound one's own praises.
{To blow out}, to extinguish by a current of air, as a
candle.
{To blow up}.
(a) To fill with air; to swell; as, to blow up a bladder
or bubble.
(b) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to
puff up; as, to blow one up with flattery. ``Blown up
with high conceits engendering pride.'' --Milton.
(c) To excite; as, to blow up a contention.
(d) To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by an
explosion; as, to blow up a fort.
(e) To scold violently; as, to blow up a person for some
offense. [Colloq.]
I have blown him up well -- nobody can say I
wink at what he does. --G. Eliot.
{To blow upon}.
(a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to
render stale, unsavory, or worthless.
(b) To inform against. [Colloq.]
How far the very custom of hearing anything
spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage,
may be seen in those speeches from
[Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in
the mouths of schoolboys. --C. Lamb.
A lady's maid whose character had been blown
upon. --Macaulay.