Uplean
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Uplean is a verb meaning (ambitransitive, literary) To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.
Meaning
(ambitransitive, literary) To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.
More Meanings
- (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To lean (on something).
Example Sentences
With that vpleaning on her elbow weake, Her alablaster brest she soft did kis,
[…] the snow which covered the glacier was melted into upleaning, icy blades which were extremely difficult to cross […]
[…] thus his carelesse time This shepheard driues, vpleaning on his batt, And on shrill reedes chaunting his rustick rime,
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.
Word Forms
- upleans
- upleaning
- upleant
- upleaned
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include propend, incline, lean, uprise, lift, rest.
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