upskip

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An upstart. obsolete
    — If you should ever see any of the King's Judges taking upon them a legislative, instead of a judicial, Power; dispensing with, denying, or withholding the known, established Laws, or executing the Dictates of any foreign Legislature, or Jurisdiction, unapproved by our Parliament; if any such should presume to influence, or over-awe JURIES , by Threats, or other illicit Measures; or unlawfully to strip Juries of their Power, or Pivileges, or to censure, or abuse them, for making any just and lawful Presentment; for finding or rejecting any Bill, or for finding any true Verdict; or, if any of these Officers, in any other Manner commits a breach of his Oath and Duty; that Grand Jury, that does not, on the first fair Opportunity , present such an upskip, hireling Tyrant, as a Traitor and an Enemy to his King and Country; is purjured and infamous.
  2. A raise in pitch with no perceptible glide connecting the tone to the previous sound
    — Someone reading the following aloud, The normal course will have one to three hour-examinations per term and a three-hour examination at the end of each term. will feel a need to put a pause after the first three and resume on hour with an abrupt upskip and also possibly a glottal stop plus head and hand gestures , to avoid the suggestion of three-hour as a constituent at that point.
动词 v.
  1. To spring or skip up. poetic
    — With rags and leathers in his hands Upskips be ostentatiously; Anon he at the summit stands, And window cleans vivaciously.

词形变化

upskips plural upskips present,singular,third-person upskipping participle,present upskipped participle,past upskipped past
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