Word Meanings - UPSEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To send, cast, or throw up. As when some island situate afar . . . Upsends a smoke to heaven. Cowper.

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• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• ISLANDY
  Of or pertaining to islands; full of islands. Cotgrave.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• SITUATE
  To place. Landor.
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• ISLANDER
  An inhabitant of an island.
• SITUATE; SITUATED
  1. Having a site, situation, or location; being in a relative position; permanently fixed; placed; located; as, a town situated, or situate, on a hill or on the seashore. 2. Placed; residing. Pleasure situate in hill and dale. Milton. Note: Situate
• HEAVEN
  hevan, LG. heben, heven, Icel. hifinn; of uncertain origin, cf. D. hemel, G. himmel, Icel. himmin, Goth. himins; perh. akin to, or influenced by, the root of E. heave, or from a root signifying to cover, cf. Goth. gaham to put on, clothe one's
• HEAVENLY
  1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• SMOKEHOUSE
  A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
• SMOKELESS POWDER
  A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
• SMOKESTACK
  A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
• THROWN
  a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread
• SMOKE BALL
  See PUFFBALL
• HEAVENWARD
  Toward heaven.
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• SMOKEJACK
  A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
• ISLAND
  See JOY (more info) land, lond, land. AS. ig, , is akin to AS. eá water, river, OHG. , G. au meadow, Icel. ey island, Dan. & Sw. ö, Goth. ahwa a stream, water, L. aqua water. The s is due to confusion with
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• BESMOKE
  1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.
• DEMI-ISLAND
  Peninsula. Knolles.
• OUTTHROW
  1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.