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upstare en · VERB

Etymology

From up- + stare.

Meanings

1. (archaic, intransitive) To stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.
   • […] aghast, upstared my Hair, I speechless stood! 1999, Thomas W. Krise, Caribbeana:
   • Th' Blofielders wor a right upstaren' lot o' chaps, and we had several owd scores ter set off agin them, so all Ranner woted for savage camp and Blofield didn't gainsay us. 1903, Charles James Longman, Longman's magazine: Volume 42:
   • […]With hair up-staring—then like reeds, not hair—[…] 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
   • I have no people living ; none, Thank God ! will mourn me there, / Dreaming in misery of one Whose clouded eyes upstare 1927, Collected poems of Alexander G. Steven:
   • In the street or road he reluctantly wore a hat, but in fields or gardens his little round head had no other covering than his long, wild, ragged locks." These wild locks upstared more wildly when Shelley, having dipped his head, [...] 1896, Edward Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley:

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