upright

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

• adjective Being in a vertical position or direction: synonym: vertical.
• adjective Erect in posture or carriage.
• adjective Adhering strictly to moral principles; righteous.
• adjective Designed with the pedals below the seat to allow an erect posture rather than a reclining one.
• adverb Vertically.
• noun A perpendicular position; verticality.
• noun Something, such as a goalpost, that stands upright.
• noun An upright piano.
• noun An upright bicycle.
• transitive verb To restore to an upright position.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In golf, the lie of a club. See lie.
• Vertically.
• Flat on the back; horizontally and with the face upward.
• Erect; vertical.
• Erect on one's feet; hence, erect as a human being; in general, having the longest axis vertical: as, an upright boiler.
• Erected; pricked up; standing out straight from the body.
• Adhering to rectitude; not deviating from correct moral principles; of inflexible honesty.
• In accord with what is right; honest; just.
• Well adjusted or disposed; in good condition; right.
• 4 and Just, Rightful, etc. (see righteous), honorable, conscientious, straightforward, true.
• noun Something standing erect or vertical.
• noun In architecture, the elevation or orthography of a building. Gwilt. A molding-machine of which the mandrel is perpendicular.
• noun An upright pianoforte.

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

• noun Something standing upright, as a piece of timber in a building. See Illust. of frame.
• noun (Basketwork) A tool made from a flat strip of steel with chisel edges at both ends, bent into horseshoe, the opening between the cutting edges being adjustable, used for reducing splits to skeins. Called in full upright shave.
• noun (Football) the vertical part of a goalpost, especially the part above the horizontal bar.
• adjective In an erect position or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward.
• adjective Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just.
• adjective Conformable to moral rectitude.
• adjective obsolete Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.
• adjective (Golf) Designating a club in which the head is approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
• adjective (Mach.) a drilling machine having the spindle vertical.

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

• adjective Vertical; erect.
• adjective Greater in height than breadth.
• adjective figuratively Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
• adverb in or into an upright position
• noun Any vertical part of a structure, especially one of the goal posts in sports.
• noun A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• noun informal An upright piano.

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

• adjective in a vertical position; not sloping
• adjective upright in position or posture
• noun a piano with a vertical sounding board
• adjective of moral excellence
• noun a vertical structural member as a post or stake