uplean
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Etymology ===
From up- + lean.
=== Verb ===
uplean (third-person singular simple present upleans, present participle upleaning, simple past and past participle upleant or upleaned)
(ambitransitive, literary) To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.
1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193,[1]
The western sky is wallen
With shadowy mountains, built upon the marge
Of the horizon, from eve’s purple sheen,
And thin gray clouds, that daringly uplean
Their silver cones upon the crimson verge
Of the high zenith,
1856, Gold-Pen (pseudonym), “My Cottage” in Poems, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 2nd edition, pp. 188-189,[2]
I forced the slowly yielding door
That ope’d on Sabbath morn no more,
And found all that the winds withstood,
Was an upleaning piece of wood.
1895, Orelia Key Bell, “And every morning as I passed her bower” in Poems, Philadelphia: Rodgers, p. 181,[3]
[…] that liquid cadency
Seep’d thro’ the casement to the birds and me,
Who upleaning drank, and drinking upleaned more.
1902, George Macdonald Major, “A Chinatown Idyll” in Lays of Chinatown, New York: The Lloyd Press, 2nd edition, p. 64,[4]
A rakish hat was tilted o’er his eyes.
A cigarette, with intermittent fire,
Upleaned to meet it from his stern set lips.
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To lean (on something).
=== Anagrams ===
Lupane, Nepaul, lupane, unpale