[UP- 6.]
1. Standing up; erect; on one’s feet.
c. 1375. Lay Folks Mass Bk. (MS. B.), 261. Saye pater-noster, ȝit vp-standande.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., XII. 601. Mydday & ouernoon … A mydde is noon vpstondyng right.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. vii. 20. With long locks vp-standing, [he] stifly stared.
1628. May, Virg. Georg., III. 99. The water-snakes, with scales up-standing, dy.
1828. Atherstone, Fall of Nineveh, I. 142.
| Toward the Median camp, | |
| Upstanding in his car, himself looked out. |
1861. Illustr. Lond. News, 1 June, 505/1. A white-headed clergy man was called upon to say prayers, which he did upstanding.
1884. Lady Brassey, Egypt after War, IV. 17 Feb. In the court outside are two obelisks, one still upstanding.
2. fig. Remaining in good estate, intact, or in the same condition. north. dial.
c. 1450. Lay Folks Mass Bk., 70. We sall pray … for all lande tyllande, þat god … maynteyn þame so, þat þai may be upstandand.
1649. W. G., Surv. Newcastle upon Tine, 24. All his stock upstanding, he living all that time of the Profit that his ground yeelded.
1855. [Robinson], Whitby Gloss., Upstanding, remaining as heretofore.
3. Mining. (See quot.)
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-m., 269. Up-standing, the condition of a goaf when such portions of the pillars are worked away as still to leave the roof supported.
