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Pronunciation : Up"ward, Up"wards
Part of Speech : adv.
Etymology : [AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Up"ward
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [AS. upweard. See Up, and -ward.]
Definition : Defn: Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Up"ward
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: The upper part; the top. [Obs.] From the extremest upward of thy head. Shak.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913