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A stimulant, such as amphetamine, that increases energy and decreases appetite.

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The upper portion of something

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Someone with higher social standing

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That which is higher, contrasted with the lower.

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A spiritual passageway through which consciousness can reach a higher dimension.

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At a higher level, rank or position.

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Situated on higher ground, further inland, or more northerly.

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(of strata or geological time periods) younger, more recent

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Of or pertaining to a secondary school.

It looked like you had the upper hand.

As he removed the beginnings of a mustache from his upper lip, he glanced at her in the mirror and grinned.

Yes, I was up at the ice park when he fell, but no, there's no one to alibi me—I was off alone on the upper trail.

The heavy leather rig appeared designed to span both waist and upper thigh.

The beekeeper opens the upper part of the hive and examines the super.

Under other circumstances, she might have enjoyed having the upper hand, but right now she didn't feel much like playing games.

Some vaguely sane part of her mind protested that it was a cowardly thing to do, but panic had the upper hand.

For the first time since they met, she almost had the upper hand.

The excessive heat of the upper regions compels him to descend, and he next visits the bottom of the sea in a kind of diving-bell.

You can get a login name by clicking on "Log in" at the upper right.

From what he could see from the roadway bridge the upper path was empty.

The commo room where he sat was large with marble walls and leather chairs, a sign of the upper class's decadence.

Elise peeled off her shirt to reveal a snug undershirt that outlined the shape of her muscular upper body.

He'd urged her to hide herself away when she wasn't at work with him, telling her tales of how bad the upper class was.

As they broadened into a smile, a large dimple appeared in the upper part of his right cheek.

The temperature was still in the upper 80's and the house looked lonely – if a house could look that way.

She still had her jeans on and was washing her upper torso when the front door opened and shut.

They sparred hard for several moments, until Darian's upper body carried a sheen of sweat.

She traced it down to his upper abdomen and paused.

Darian saw the fury cross Jenn's face, and her next strikes were fast and hard enough they might've given her the upper hand she needed.

Scars were visible on one cheek, on the back of his neck, and on the wide upper body that was exposed the previous day.

He stretched his neck and upper body and then drew his remaining dagger.

He clenched his fists, reminding himself that the seemingly vulnerable woman had handled him well enough the previous night despite his upper hand.

His fingers tightened around her upper arms and he pulled her away from him.

She gasped and yanked away, but not before he saw the bruises on her upper arm.

For the first time since meeting her, Xander felt like he had the upper hand.

Upper margin of the end of the proboscis developed into a distinct finger-like process, much longer than the lower margins, and the whole trunk uniformly tapering and smooth.

Consequently, during the hot season in Upper India, and at all times except during the rains in the more southern districts, elephants keep much to the denser parts of the forests.

A gland and tuft are present on the skin of the outer side of the upper part of the hind cannon-bone; but, unlike American deer, there is no gland on the inner side of the hock.

The eastern headwaters of the Senegal thus drain a large area adjacent to the upper Niger.

In the upper part of the river the reservoirs are partially protected by curtains of verdure from the effects of the evaporation which makes itself so severely felt on the treeless seaboard.

It was not until 1637 that the explorations of the upper river began, Jannequin, Sieur de Rochfort, in that year ascending the river some 200 m.

Park himself added much to the knowledge of the upper basin of the Senegal.

Mastodons, like elephants, always have a pair of upper tusks, while the earlier ones likewise have a short pair in the lower jaw, which is prolonged into a snout-like symphysis for their support.

In the former the upper tusks are bent down so as to cross the tips of the short and chisel-like lower pair.

These long-chinned mastodons must have had an extremely elongated muzzle, formed by the upper lip and nose above and the lower lip below, with which they were able to reach the ground, the neck being probably rather longer than in elephants.

Wilson considers that convection currents in the upper atmosphere would be quite inadequate, but conduction may, he thinks, be sufficient alone.

Dust particles interfere with conduction near the ground, so the relative conductivity in the upper layers may be much greater than that calculated.

Wilson supposes that by the fall to the ground of a preponderance of negatively charged rain the air above the shower has a higher positive potential than elsewhere at the same level, thus leading to large conduction currents laterally in the highly conducting upper layers.

In particular the remarkable frontier lines which bounded the Roman provinces of Upper (southern) Germany and Raetia, and which at their greatest development stretched from near Bonn on the Rhine to near Regensburg on the Danube, are often called the Limes Germanicus.

The upper Rhine and upper Danube are easily crossed.

The first advance came about 74, when what is now Baden was invaded and in part annexed and a road carried from the Roman base on the upper Rhine, Strassburg, to the Danube just above Ulm.

We know the line of this frontier which ran from the Main across the upland Odenwald to the upper waters of the Neckar and was defended by a chain of forts.

It lies in the upper part of the Ribble valley, amid the wild scenery of the limestone hills of the Pennine system.

The principal districts are the Fairmont (or Upper Monongahela) and the Elk Garden (or Upper Potomac) in the northern, and the Pocahontas (or Flat Top) and the New and Kanawha rivers districts in the southern part of the state.

When in 1706 the Austrian party appeared likely to gain the upper hand, Portocarrero was led by spite and vexation to go over to them.

The roof must not be quite flat, for a slight fall is necessary in its upper surface to allow water to drain away into gutters placed at convenient points.

The two ends of the loch are wholly dissimilar in character, the scenery of the upper extremity being majestic, while that of the lower half is pastoral and tame.

By the treaty of Pavia in this year, Louis granted the Palatinate of the Rhine and the upper Palatinate of Bavaria to his brother's sons, Rudolph II.

Rupert, who from 1353 to 1390 was sole ruler, gained the electoral dignity for the Palatinate of the Rhine in 1356 by a grant of some lands in upper Bavaria to the emperor Charles IV.