upleanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

uplean (三人称単数 現在形 upleans, 現在分詞 upleaning, 過去形および過去分詞形 upleant または upleaned)

1. (transitive, intransitive, literary) To lean or incline upward; to cause (something) to lean upward.
   • 1834, Albert Pike, “Sunset” in Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country, Boston: Light & Horton, pp. 192-193,^[1]

     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,

   • 1856, Gold-Pen (pseudonym), “My Cottage” in Poems, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 2nd edition, pp. 188-189,^[2]

     I forced the slowly yielding door

     That ope’d on Sabbath morn no more,

     And found all that the winds withstood,

     Was an upleaning piece of wood.

   • 1895, Orelia Key Bell, “And every morning as I passed her bower” in Poems, Philadelphia: Rodgers, p. 181,^[3]

     […] that liquid cadency

     Seep’d thro’ the casement to the birds and me,

     Who upleaning drank, and drinking upleaned more.

   • 1902, George Macdonald Major, “A Chinatown Idyll” in Lays of Chinatown, New York: The Lloyd Press, 2nd edition, p. 64,^[4]

     A rakish hat was tilted o’er his eyes.

     A cigarette, with intermittent fire,

     Upleaned to meet it from his stern set lips.

   • 1912, John Muir, The Yosemite, New York: Century, 1920, Chapter 14, p. 244,^[5]

     […] the snow which covered the glacier was melted into upleaning, icy blades which were extremely difficult to cross […]

2. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To lean (on something).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 3, canto 2, page 322:

     With that vpleaning on her elbow weake,
     Her alablaster brest she soft did kis,

   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Virgils Gnat”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] VVilliam Ponsonbie, […], OCLC 15537294:

     […] thus his carelesse time
     This shepheard driues, vpleaning on his batt,
     And on shrill reedes chaunting his rustick rime,