(a.) Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not
leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
(a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted.
(a.) Bold; confident; free from depression; undismayed.
(a.) Watchful; alert.
(a.) Standing upright, with reference to the earth's surface, or
to the surface to which it is attached.
(a.) Elevated, as the tips of wings, heads of serpents, etc.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To lift up; to elevate; to exalt; to magnify.
(v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to cheer.
(v. t.) To set up as an assertion or consequence from premises,
or the like.
(v. t.) To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
(v. i.) To rise upright.
