upcast

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Directed or thrown upward.
• noun Something cast upward.
• noun A ventilating shaft, as in a mine.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cast or throw up.
• Cast up: a term used in bowling.
• Thrown or turned upward; directed up: as, upcast eyes.
• noun The act of casting or hurling upward, or the state of being cast upward; also, that which is cast upward; an upthrow.
• noun In bowling, a cast; a throw.
• noun In mining, the shaft or passage of any kind through which the air is taken out of a mine; the out-take: the opposite of downcast (which see) and downtake.
• noun An upward current of air passing through a shaft or the like.
• noun The state of being overturned; an upset.
• noun A taunt; a reproach.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Cast up; thrown upward.
• transitive verb obsolete To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
• transitive verb Scot. To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
• noun (Bowling) A cast; a throw.
• noun (Mining.) The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft.
• noun Scot. An upset, as from a carriage.
• noun Scot. A taunt; a reproach.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective Cast up; thrown upward; as, with upcast eyes. - Joseph Addison.
• noun bowling A cast; a throw. - Shakespeare
• noun mining The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine.
• noun Scotland An upset, as from a carriage.
• noun Scotland A taunt; a reproach. - Sir W. Scott
• noun computing A cast from subtype to supertype.
• noun A message transmitted via upcasting
• verb transitive, obsolete To cast or throw up; to turn upward.
• verb transitive, Scotland To taunt; to reproach; to upbraid.
• verb transitive, computing To cast from subtype to supertype.
• verb To broadcast a message or data to aircraft or satellites, especially via radio waves; as opposed to uplinking to a specific satellite or aircraft

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun air passage consisting of a ventilation shaft through which air leaves a mine