{ 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. 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, orUpwards of, more than; above.
I have been your wife in this obedience
Upward of twenty years. Shak.