[UP- 4 + TIE v. 11.]

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  1.  trans. To tie, bind, or fasten up.

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1590.  Spenser, F. Q., I. iv. 31. An hatefull Snake, the which his taile vptyes In many folds. Ibid., II. ii. 15, VI. iv. 24.

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1714.  [Croxall], Original Canto Spenser, xx.

  Those honest Hounds endeavour’d still full fain
To work the forlorn Maiden’s Liberty;
Striving with knawing Teeth to wranch the Chain,
Which did her tender Limbs to th’ Rock upty.

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  fig.  1590.  Spenser, F. Q., II. ii. 1. When Sir Guyon with his faithfull guide Had … The end of their sad Tragedie vptyde.

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  † 2.  To enclose or confine. Obs.–1

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1600.  Fairfax, Tasso, XIV. x. A narrow roome our glorie vaine vp-ties, A little circle doth our pride containe.

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  So Uptied pa. pple., Uptying pres. pple.

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c. 1450.  Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), 217. My breche be nott ȝett welle up-teyd, I had such hast to renne away.

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1654.  Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. x. 131. (Deny’d accesse, and tongues up ty’d) To Paper Stratagems we turn’d.

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1818.  Keats, Endym., II. 803. Every eve saw me my hair uptying With fingers cool as aspen leaves.

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