Upward \Up"ward\, Upwards \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, or Upwards of, more than; above.

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)