upstare

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ stare.

Verb

upstare (third-person singular simple present upstares, present participle upstaring, simple past and past participle upstared)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     […] With hair up-staring—then like reeds, not hair— […]

   • 1896, Edward Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley:

     In the street or road he reluctantly wore a hat, but in fields or gardens his little round head had no other covering than his long, wild, ragged locks." These wild locks upstared more wildly when Shelley, having dipped his head, [...]

   • 1903, Charles James Longman, Longman's magazine: Volume 42:

     Th' Blofielders wor a right upstaren' lot o' chaps, and we had several owd scores ter set off agin them, so all Ranner woted for savage camp and Blofield didn't gainsay us.

   • 1927, Collected poems of Alexander G. Steven:

     I have no people living ; none, Thank God ! will mourn me there, / Dreaming in misery of one Whose clouded eyes upstare

   • 1999, Thomas W. Krise, Caribbeana:

     […] aghast, upstared my Hair, I speechless stood!

Anagrams

• Pasteur, Puertas, Supetar, pasture, tear-ups, tears up, uprates, uptears