Word Meanings - UPLANDISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands. Chapman. 2. Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized. His presence made the rudest peasant melt, That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt. Marlowe.

Related words: (words related to UPLANDISH)

• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• PEASANT
  A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn. -- Countryman; rustic; swain; hind. (more info) with the p.pr. of verbs), païsan, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• PEASANTLY
  Peasantlike. Milton.
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• RUSTICITY
  The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
• COUNTRY CLUB
  A club usually located in the suburbs or vicinity of a city or town and devoted mainly to outdoor sports.
• LANDSCAPE
  land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
• DWELT
  of Dwell.
• LANDSTREIGHT
  A narrow strip of land.
• COUNTRYSIDE
  A particular rural district; a country neighborhood. W. Black. Blackmore.
• LANDSTURM
  That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
• RUSTICLY
  In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.
• DWELL
  AS. dwellan to deceive, hinder, delay, dwelian to err; akin to Icel. dvelja to delay, tarry, Sw. dväljas to dwell, Dan. dvæle to linger, 1. To delay; to linger. 2. To abide; to remain; to continue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• OMNIPRESENCE
  Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity. His omnipresence fills Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives. Milton.
• UNDWELT
  Not lived ; -- with in.
• OUTDWELL
  To dwell or stay beyond. "He outdwells his hour." Shak.