uphands

Verb

uphand (third-person singular simple present uphands, present participle uphanding, simple past and past participle uphanded)

1. To lift with an upward movement of the hands.
   • To high heaven, all so softly, / The angels uphand him; / In meads of May flowers / Mild Mary will meet him: […]1866, C[harles] Kingsley, “How Hereward Took Service with Ranald, King of Waterford”, in Hereward the Wake, “Last of the English.” […], volume I, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co....
2. To strike from below with the hand or fist.
   • Before he had hit, she sprang upright, feinted so that Gull's quick blow whooshed harmlessly past her cheek, and uphanded his chin, stunning him and sending him reeling against Kayser, who had stepped back.2010, Brad Strickland, Flight of the Outcast: The Academy, Year 1, →ISBN, page 96
3. To uphold, promote, or sustain.
   • Aweel, Jock, I'se no say but we've had mony an up an mony a doon i' life, but there's ae comfort whilk uphands me aboon ilka ither thocht, an its e'en this: Ye married yer Elsie, Jock, frae doonright sheer love an naething mair nor less, an Elsie gae her hail heart an its life's bluid to ye whan...1843, Journey to the Phalanx, page 24
4. To raise the hands.
   • But the whole thirty-three uphanded and cried, “Mercy, Kamerad '"1918, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook - Volume 120, page 425

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