Middle English Dictionary Entry
uppermōre adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | uppermōre adj. Also oppermore. |
| Etymology | From upper(e adj. & -mōr(e suf. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Pertaining or proper to the topmost part of something:
(a) higher, farther up toward the top; also, (a certain distance) farther up or higher (than another part) [1st quot.];
(b) of a member of paired structures: superior, upper; as noun: the more northerly of the hemispheres, the northern hemisphere.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)72 : A good hunters horn shuld be…nought to crokyng neiþer to straught, but the flewe be of iii or iiii fyngres vppermore þan the hede.
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)4.57/13 : It is in heiȝt in þe vppermore bonez of þe nose-þrilles.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)30a/a : Þei beþ contynued togidere with þe same schuldre bonys and also with þe adiutorijs, þat is to seie, þe vppermore bonys of þe armes.
b
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)90/20 : We schuld hafe sene all þe roundeness of þe firmament, þat es to say, bathe þe emisperies, þe vppermare and þe nedermare.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)34a/b : Þe secunde principal part…is callid of summen þe vppermore wombe, and þe concauite of þe nutritiues is callid þe neþere wombe.
2.
Pertaining or proper to the most extended part or area of something: of a bone or joint: farthest out, last; as noun: the last one; ~ places, ?the part closest to the surface; ?the outer surface.
Associated quotations
- ?a1425 Chauliac(1) (NY 12:Wallner)1.108/11 : In þe 2a ward bene 4 [bones], And in þe uppermore is a litel box in which is festned þe first bone of þe thombe.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)44/38 : Þe vppermore iuncture of þe bone of þe fynger was drawen out.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)149a/a : Cauterise þe superficie ouþir þe opper more placis of þe veynes ouþir of þe arteries.