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ˈuppermore, adv. and a. Now dial.
Also 5 vppyr-, vppermare, vpher more, 6 Sc. vppermair, -mer, vppirmer, 7 vppermere, 9 north. dial. uppermer.
[f. upper adv. and a. + -more. Cf. older Da. yppermere.]
A. adv. Higher locally; further up; at or to a greater altitude. (In later use Sc.)
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xiv. 63 Vppermare amanges þe mountaynes es a faire citee. c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxi, Þat þe flewe be iii. or iiii. fyngres vppermore þanne þe heed. 1435Misyn Fire of Love i. x. 20 Bettyr it is..þat criste..to vs say, ‘frende, cum vppyrmare’. 1501Douglas Pal. Hon. iii. v, Weil I considderit na vppermair I micht, And to discend sa hiddeous was the hicht, I durst not auenture. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 30 Abone or vppirmer, vpon Leuin, is the toune. 1616Barbour's Bruce (Hart) ii. 440 To that word they assented all, And from them walloped vppermere.
B. adj. That is the more elevated (of two); higher, upper.
c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xx. 90 Bathe þe emisperies, þe vppermare and þe nedermare. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 44 After þat þe vppermore iuncture of þe bone of þe fynger was drawen out. 1869–in north. dialect use (Eng. Dial. Dict.). |