Obs. [Later form of up land, uppe lande, etc.: see UP prep.1 5 a.] Out in the country; = UPONLAND adv.

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c. 1380.  Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 176. To … helpe here pore neiȝeboris … & parische chirchis vplond.

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c. 1400.  Found. St. Bartholomew’s (1923), 20. Hit ys tolde of a Richemanne vplond dwellyng that come to this Chirche.

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c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., I. vi. 28. Men of the cuntre vplond bringen into Londoun in Mydsomer eue braunchis of trees … and flouris.

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1551.  Bale, Eng. Votaries, II. 67 b. In most places they dwelt vplonde.

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  b.  Jack (John) Upland, used as a name for a rustic. (Cf. UPALAND adv. b.)

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1402.  in Wright, Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 16. I, Jacke Upland, make my mone to very God. Ibid., 40. A frere … aresoneth Jak Uplonde.

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1529.  Lyndesay, Compl., 407. Ihone Upeland bene full blyith, I trow, Because the rysche bus kepis his kow.

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