Up"ward (?), Up"wards (?), adv. [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], ∨ [Upwards of], more than; above.

I have been your wife in this obedience Upward of twenty years. Shak.

© [Webster 1913].

Up"ward, a. [AS. upweard. See [Up], and [-ward].]

Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

© [Webster 1913].

Up"ward, n.

The upper part; the top.

[Obs.]

From the extremest upward of thy head. Shak.

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Upward (definition)