-upwards-

{ } 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 ]