pres. pple. [UP- 6.]

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  † 1.  Of hair: Standing on end. Obs.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 22. They might perceiue his … curld vncombed heares Vpstaring stiffe.

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1610.  Shaks., Temp., I. ii. 213. The Kings sonne Ferdinand With haire vp-staring.

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  2.  Gazing upwards.

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  For ‘vp-staring’ in Marlowe’s Hero & L., II. 200 the true reading is prob. ‘vp-starting,’ as in some later edd.

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1835.  Ruskin, Tour France, x. Wks. 1903, II. 400. I stood, upstaring at the lofty steeple.

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