[UP- 6 b.]
1. Standing up; erect.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 332. Aho on upstandende twiʓ.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 154. Pira, upstandende herebeacn.
c. 1384. Chaucer, H. Fame, 1389. She Had also fele vpstondyng eres And tonges, as on bestes heres.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. ix. 13. Staring with hollow eyes, and stiffe vpstanding heares.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Rasibus, The top of an open, and vp-standing Hogs-head.
1628–9. in Maitl. Club Misc., III. 370. To lay fyre to the upstanding Craig at the greine.
1805. Southey, Madoc, I. vii. 87. Round the helm A coronal of high upstanding plumes.
1883. Times, 11 June, 4/5. A pigeon is perched upon each of the two upstanding handles.
1898. St. James’s Gaz., 14 Nov., 13/1. A close round black toque and upstanding feathers.
2. Of animals (esp. horses) or persons: Having an erect carriage; well set up.
(a) 1835. Sir G. Stephen, Adv. Search Horse, xv. 191. Very superior, well-bred,… up-standing … seasoned horses.
1877. J. Coleman’s Sheep & Pigs, 36. The latter are white and clean in both, and, more, what are generally called upstanding sheep.
1883. R. Groom, Great Dane, 13. A large, upstanding dog, of noble presence.
(b) 1881. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, III. vi. 106. A well-grown upstanding young woman.
1894. Strand Mag., VIII. 156. The Marquis was a tall, upstanding man of spare figure.
1901. Longm. Mag., Dec., 147. The Nolans were all fair and big, upstanding men and women.
b. fig. Of persons: Of open, honest, or independent bearing; straightforward, downright.
1863. R. S. Hawker, in Byles, Life (1905), 462. He found the Miners and the Fishermen an upstanding rollicking courageous people.
1889. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Robbery under Arms (1890), 2. A lot of game upstanding chaps, that acted like men. Ibid. (1890), Col. Reformer (1891), 169. As good a specimen of the thoroughbred upstanding pirate as any … in print.
3. Upstanding wage, a regular or fixed wage in contrast to one dependent on circumstances.
1888. W. E. Nicholson, Coal-Trade Gloss., 103. Upstanding Wage, a certain weekly wage.
1897. Railway Review, 1 Jan. (E.E.D.). The Company are prepared to arrange a suitable upstanding-wage.
