Up"ward , n. The upper part; the top. [Obs.]
From the extremest upward of thy head.
Shak.
Up"ward , a. [AS. upweard. See Up, and -ward.]
Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
{ 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,
or Upwards of, more than; above.
I have been your wife in
this obedience
Upward of twenty years.
Shak.
Hear it pronounced