UP'WARDS, adverb 1. Toward a higher place; opposed to downward. Upward I lift my eye. 2. Toward heaven and God. Looking inward, we are struck dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. 3. With respect to the higher part. Upward man, downward fish. 4. More than, indefinitely. upwards of ten years have elapsed; upwards of a hundred men were present. 5. Toward the source. Trace the stream upwards And trace the muses upwards to their spring.
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