Up"per, n. The upper leather for a shoe;
a vamp.
Up"per (?), a.; comp. of
Up. Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in
place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper
lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a
legislature.
The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage.
See To have the upper hand, under Hand. Jowett
(Thucyd.). -- Upper Bench (Eng. Hist.),
the name of the highest court of common law (formerly King's Bench)
during the Commonwealth. -- Upper case, the top
one of a pair of compositor's cases. See the Note under 1st Case,
n., 3. -- Upper covert
(Zoöl.), one of the coverts situated above the bases of the
tail quills. -- Upper deck (Naut.), the
topmost deck of any vessel; the spar deck. -- Upper
leather, the leather for the vamps and quarters of
shoes. -- Upper strake (Naut.), the
strake next to the deck, usually of hard wood, and heavier than the other
strakes. -- Upper ten thousand, or (abbreviated)
Upper ten, the ten thousand, more or less, who are
highest in position or wealth; the upper class; the aristocracy.
[Colloq.] -- Upper topsail (Naut.), the upper
half of a double topsail. -- Upper works
(Naut.), all those parts of the hull of a vessel that are
properly above water. -- Upper world.
(a) The atmosphere. (b)
Heaven. (c) This world; the earth; -- in
distinction from the underworld.