upper case

Upper \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.
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   {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} (Zool.), 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}.
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Case \Case\ (k[=a]s), n. [OF. casse, F. caisse (cf. It. cassa),
   fr. L. capsa chest, box, case, fr. capere to take, hold. See
   {Capacious}, and cf. 4th {Chase}, {Cash}, {Enchase}, 3d
   {Sash}.]
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   1. A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods;
      a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case
      (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.
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   2. A box and its contents; the quantity contained in a box;
      as, a case of goods; a case of instruments.
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   3. (Print.) A shallow tray divided into compartments or
      "boxes" for holding type.
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   Note: Cases for type are usually arranged in sets of two,
         called respectively the upper and the lower case. The
         {upper case} contains capitals, small capitals,
         accented and marked letters, fractions, and marks of
         reference: the {lower case} contains the small letters,
         figures, marks of punctuation, quadrats, and spaces.
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   4. An inclosing frame; a casing; as, a door case; a window
      case.
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   5. (Mining) A small fissure which admits water to the
      workings. --Knight.
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74 Moby Thesaurus words for "upper case":
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      beard, belly, bevel, black letter, blackface, body, bold-faced,
      boldface, cap, capital, case, chromotypic, chromotypographic,
      counter, descender, em, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, font,
      full-faced, graphemic, groove, ideographic, italic, letter,
      lettered, lexigraphic, ligature, lightface, literal, logogrammatic,
      logographic, logotype, lower case, lower-case, majuscule,
      minuscular, minuscule, nick, phototypic, pi, pica, pictographic,
      point, print, roman, sans serif, script, shank, shoulder,
      small cap, small capital, stamp, stem, stereotypic, transliterated,
      type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface,
      typefounders, typefoundry, typographic, uncial