Word Meanings - UPCLIMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to UPCLIMB)

• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• CLIMB
  To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• ASCENDIBLE
  Capable of being ascended; climbable.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• WOVEN
  p. p. of Weave. Woven paper, or Wove paper, writing paper having an even, uniform surface, without watermarks.
• ASCENDING
  Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude , the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line , the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• CLIMBABLE
  Capable of being climbed.
• COPSE
  A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• ABOVEDECK
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
• CLIMBING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Climb. Climbing fern. See under Fern. -- Climbing perch. See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.
• COPSEWOOD
  Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.
• ASCEND
  Etym: 1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17. Note: Formerly used with up. The smoke of it ascended up to
• CLIMBER
  One who, or that which, climbs: A plant that climbs. A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
• ASCENDABLE
  Capable of being ascended.
• ASCENDANT; ASCENDENT
  1. Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. Browne. 2. Rising; ascending. Ruskin. 3. Superior; surpassing; ruling. An ascendant spirit over him. South. The ascendant community obtained
• OUTCLIMB
  To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing. Davenant.
• OVERSHADOWY
  Overshadowing.
• UPCLIMB
  To climb up; to ascend. Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. Tennyson.
• REASCEND
  To rise, mount, or climb again.
• OVERCLIMB
  To climb over. Surrey.