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ˈupturned, ppl. a.
[up- 5. Cf. prec.]
1. Turned or directed upwards:
a. Of the eye, face, etc.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. ii. 29 The white vpturned wondring eyes, Of mortalls that fall backe to gaze on him. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian i, The thousand upturned faces of the gazing crowd. 1835Longfellow in Life (1891) I. 213 How strange looked the upturned faces..in that glare! 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. i. ii, With upturned awestruck eye. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola Proem ad. fin., Upturned living faces and lips moving to the old prayers for help.
b. In general use.
1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc. v. 140 It may..even rest upon the edges of upturned strata. 1865Tylor 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.
1816Wordsw. Ode, 1815, 31 The upturned soil receives the hopeful seed. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xxvii, You knelt on the floor with..your upturned box before you. 1895Daily 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.
1843Lytton Last Bar. i. iv, Solomon in pointed upturned shoes. 1847W. C. L. Martin The Ox 73/2 A fine and some⁓what up-turned muzzle. 1876J. S. Bristowe Th. & Pract. Med. 571 The nose..broad at the root, and upturned. 1885J. E. Taylor Brit. Fossils 225 A perforation in the upturned beak. |