v. Now dial. [UP- 4.] trans. To stir up; to throw into turmoil or disorder.

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1557.  Phaër, Æneid, VI. (1558), S j. What slaughters wyld shall they vpsteere?

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1570.  Satir. Poems Reform., xi. 38. Wa worth the wit that first began This deir debait for to vpsteir.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 273. His Nobilis … he vpsteiris to take Weapounis.

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1889.  N. W. Linc. Gloss. (ed. 2), 589. All th’ rooms was upsteer’d.

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  Hence Upsteerer. rare–1.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.), II. 413. That ȝe suld be the … author and vpsteirer of thir tumultes.

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