pres. pple. [UP- 6.]
† 1. Of hair: Standing on end. Obs.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 22. They might perceiue his curld vncombed heares Vpstaring stiffe.
1610. Shaks., Temp., I. ii. 213. The Kings sonne Ferdinand With haire vp-staring.
2. Gazing upwards.
For vp-staring in Marlowes Hero & L., II. 200 the true reading is prob. vp-starting, as in some later edd.
1835. Ruskin, Tour France, x. Wks. 1903, II. 400. I stood, upstaring at the lofty steeple.