[UP prep.2 4.] Contrary to the course of, against, the wind.
1838. W. Scrope, Deer-stalking, 17. Deer, except in certain embarrassed situations, always run up wind.
1861. Whyte-Melville, Market Harb., 9. Here their fox had made his point good up-wind.
1897. Hinde, Congo Arabs, 202. As they always started up-wind from our own quarters, we concluded that there was treachery somewhere.