ppl. a. [UP- 5. Cf. prec.]
1. Turned or directed upwards: a. Of the eye, face, etc.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., II. ii. 29. The white vpturned wondring eyes, Of mortalls that fall backe to gaze on him.
1797. Mrs. Radcliffe, Italian, i. The thousand upturned faces of the gazing crowd.
1835. Longf., in Life (1891), I. 213. How strange looked the upturned faces … in that glare!
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. I. ii. With upturned awestruck eye.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, Proem ad fin. Upturned living faces, and lips moving to the old prayers for help.
b. In general use.
1839. De la Beche, Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc., v. 140. It may … even rest upon the edges of upturned strata.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., 48. The upturned hands seem to expect some desired object to be thrown down.
2. Turned upside-down; inverted, overturned, capsized; turned up by digging, etc.
1816. Wordsw., Ode, 1815, 31. The upturned soil receives the hopeful seed.
1849. C. Brontë, Shirley, xxvii. You knelt on the floor with … your upturned box before you.
1895. Daily News, 14 May, 2/5. The body of a young man had been found, together with an upturned canoe.
3. Turned upwards at the point, extremity, or end; curved.
1843. Lytton, Last Bar., I. iv. Solomon in pointed upturned shoes.
1847. W. C. L. Martin, The Ox, 73/2. A fine and somewhat up-turned muzzle.
1876. Bristowe, Th. & Pract. Med., 571. The nose … broad at the root, and upturned.
1885. J. E. Taylor, Brit. Fossils, 225. A perforation in the upturned beak.
