- 1. adv. Alt. of Upwards Source: opted
- 2. a. Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course. Source: opted
- 3. n. The upper part; the top. Source: opted
- 4. adj. directed up Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. extending or moving toward a higher place Source: wordnet
- 6. adv. spatially or metaphorically from a lower to a higher position Source: wordnet
- 7. adv. to a later time Source: wordnet
- 8. 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. Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course. The upper part; the top. [Obs.] From the extremest upward of thy head. Shak. Source: webster
- 9. Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; withupward course. Source: adambom
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