[UP- 4. Cf. TURN v. 80.]

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  † f.  trans. To overthrow, subvert, or cause to fall.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, cxvii. 13. I am put and vpturnyd [L. eversus sum], þat i had fallyn: and þe lord resayued me.

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a. 1400.  Wycliffite Bible, Titus i. 11. Ther ben manye … the whiche subuerten [v.r. vpturnen; L. subvertunt] alle housis.

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  2.  To turn, throw, or tear up; to cast or turn over.

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1567.  Drant, Horace, Ep., xiv. E v. The countrye clownes when they see me vnfitte Vpturning cloddes,… theill stande, and lawghe at it.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., X. 700. Boreas and Cæcias … rend the Woods and Seas upturn.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., VIII. 218. Fierce from his arm th’ enormous load he flings;… Down rushing, it up-turns a hill of ground.

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1762.  Falconer, Shipwr., II. 156. Th’ approaching squall … Upturns the whitening surface of the deep.

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1855.  Singleton, Virgil, I. 74. Come then, the soil Of earth … Let straight upturn stout bullocks.

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1881.  Fortn. Rev., Feb., 209. He … then with a backward heave upturns the whole.

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  † 3.  To turn upside down. Obs.–1

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 3. Where Driver, hight Arctophylax, doth his drie waine up-turn [L. resupinat].

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  4.  To direct or cast (the eye, face, etc.) upwards.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., X. 279. The grim Feature … upturn’d His Nostril wide into the murkie Air.

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1744.  Thomson, Winter, 131. With broaden’d Nostrils to the Sky upturn’d, The conscious Heifer snuffs the stormy Gale.

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1789.  E. Darwin, Bot. Gard. (1791), II. 33. Vallisner sits, up-turns her tearful eyes.

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1828.  Atherstone, Fall of Nineveh, I. 32.

  At once a thousand trumpets from the walls
Answered the shout: with brazen throats upturned,
On all sides round ten thousand spake again.
    Ibid., 48.
            And wide trumpet mouths
Upturned.

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1838.  Mrs. Browning, To Bettine, i. Upturning worship and delight With such a loving duty To his grand face, as women will.

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  5.  intr. To turn or move up or upwards.

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1805.  Wordsw., Prelude, IV. 448. Up-turning, then, along an open field, We reached a cottage.

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1818.  Byron, Ch. Har., IV. li. Laid on thy lap, his eyes to thee upturn.

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