{ 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.

2. In the upper parts; above.

Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
And down ward fish.

3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.

From twenty years old and upward.

I have been your wife in this obedience
Upward of twenty years.

Up"ward, a. [AS. upweard. See Up, and -ward.] Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

Up"ward, n. The upper part; the top. [Obs.]

From the extremest upward of thy head.

{ 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.

2. In the upper parts; above.

Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man,
And down ward fish.

3. Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.

From twenty years old and upward.

I have been your wife in this obedience
Upward of twenty years.

Up"ward, a. [AS. upweard. See Up, and -ward.] Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

Up"ward, n. The upper part; the top. [Obs.]

From the extremest upward of thy head.

• 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 upward, we speak and prevail. -Hooker.
  
• In the upper parts; above.
       Dagon his name, sea monster, upward man, And down ward fish. -Milton.
  
• Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.
       From twenty years old and upward. -Num. i. 3.
  
• Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.
  
• (obsolete): The upper part; the top.
       From the extremest upward of thy head. -Shak.