| • | Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not
   leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. | 
											
															| • | Directed upward; raised; uplifted. | 
											
															| • | Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed. | 
											
															| • | Watchful; alert. | 
											
															| • | Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or
   to the surface to which it is attached. | 
											
															| • | Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc. | 
											
															| • | To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular
   position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a
   monument, etc. | 
											
															| • | To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to
   erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts
   of, as of a machine. | 
											
															| • | To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify. | 
											
															| • | To animate; to encourage; to cheer. | 
											
															| • | To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises,
   or the like. | 
											
															| • | To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute. | 
											
															| • | To rise upright. |