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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Upward \Up"ward\, noun The upper part; the top. [Obs.]
From the extremest upward of thy head. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \Up"wards\, adverb [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.
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Upward \Up"ward\, adjective [AS. upweard. See {Up}, and {-ward}.] Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adverb
1: spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position; "look up!"; "the music surged up"; "the fragments flew upwards"; "prices soared upwards"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: {up}, {upwards}, {upward}, {upwardly}] [ant: {down}, {downward}, {downwardly}, {downwards}]
2: to a later time; "they moved the meeting date up"; "from childhood upward" [syn: {up}, {upwards}, {upward}]
adjective
1: directed up; "the cards were face upward"; "an upward stroke of the pen"
2: extending or moving toward a higher place; "the up staircase"; "a general upward movement of fish" [syn: {up(a)}, {upward(a)}]
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