upright

Vertical; erect.

Fab[ell]: What meanes the tolling of this fatall chime, // O what a trembling horror ſtrikes my hart! // My ſtiffned haire ſtands vpright on my head, // As doe the briſtles of a porcupine.

Supported by pillows, ſhe ſat almoſt upright.

In its proper orientation; not overturned.

My brother didn't get angry when his son knocked over the lamp; he simply called the boy over and helped him set it upright again.

Greater in height than breadth.

Of good morals; practicing ethical values.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.

In or into an upright position.

I was standing upright, waiting for my orders.

Human locomotion had been presumed unique because we walk upright with two legs. When investigators led by Nadia Dominici analyzed the electrical activities produced by walking toddlers, preschoolers, and adults as well as newborns that were held upright and prodded to walk along a surface, however, they saw that we essentially follow the same chain of motor commands as several other animals, including rats, cats, monkeys, and guinea fowl.

Any vertical part of a structure.

On the change in architectural forms from the pyramidal to the obeliscar, the fires were transferred from the altars, or cubes, to the summits of the typical uprights, or towers; […]

Any vertical part of a structure.

Chelsea improved, with Salomon Kalou denied by goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and Didier Drogba hitting the upright.

Any vertical part of a structure.

A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.

Short for upright piano