upright man

Definitions

1. 1

   The leader of a group of thieves or vagrants.

   • I hope then you can cant, for by your cudgels, you sirra are an upright man.
   • And the gentry had kind hearts, and would have given baith lap and pannel to ony puir gypsy; and there was not one, from Johnnie Faa the upright man, to little Christie that was in the panniers, would cloyed a dud from them.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see upright, man.

   • Later He gave him freedom from the Lord to live alone as an upright man to cultivate and keep His garden called Eden.
3. 3

   Alternative form of upright man.

   • The Upright Man who performed the ceremony was the elected King of the Beggars, the Rector Chory or Dimber-Damber.

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