Category:Upward

Up"ward, up"wards, adv. Etym: [as. upweardes. See up-, and -wards.]

1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a Course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to Tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and Prevail. Hooker.

2. In the upper parts; above. Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, and down ward fish. Milton.

3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. From twenty years old and upward. Num. i. 3. Upward of, or upwards of, more than; above. I have been your wife in this obedience upward of twenty years. Shak.

Upward Up"ward, a. Etym: [as. upweard. See up, and -ward.]

Defn: directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with Upward course.

Upward Up"ward, n.

Defn: the upper part; the top. [obs.] From the extremest upward of thy head. Shak.