{ } adv. [ AS. upweardes. See Up-, and -wards. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. In the upper parts; above. [ 1913 Webster ] Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
And down ward fish. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over. [ 1913 Webster ] From twenty years old and upward. Num. i. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]
Upward of, or
Upwards of, more than; above. [ 1913 Webster ]
I have been your wife in this obedience
Upward of twenty years. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Upward | 
