Uplean
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward. ambitransitive, literary
"1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193, The western sky is wallen With shadowy mountains, built upon the marge Of the horizon, from eve’s purple sheen, And thin gray clouds, that daringly uplean Their silver cones upon the crimson verge Of the high zenith,"
- 2 To lean (on something). intransitive, obsolete, rare
"With that vpleaning on her elbow weake, Her alablaster brest she soft did kis,"
Example
More examples"1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193, The western sky is wallen With shadowy mountains, built upon the marge Of the horizon, from eve’s purple sheen, And thin gray clouds, that daringly uplean Their silver cones upon the crimson verge Of the high zenith,"
Etymology
From up- + lean.
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