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noun upwards
- (obsolete) : The upper part; the top.
- From the extremest of thy head. -Shak.
adverb (plural: upwards)
- 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.
- Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking , we speak and prevail. -Hooker.
- In the upper parts; above.
- Dagon his name, sea monster, man, And down ward fish. -Milton.
- Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
- From twenty years old and . -Num. i. 3.
- Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon upweardes. See Up-, and -wards.
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