Upward

a. Directed to a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward speed.

n. The upper part; the top. [Obs. and rare.] From the extremest upward of thy head To the descent and dust beneath thy feet, A most toad-spotted traitor. Shak.

1Sense 1. In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; toward the source or origin; — opposed to downward.

Upward I lift mine eyes. Watts.

Looking inward, we are struck dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.

2Sense 2. In the upper parts; above.

Upward man, Downward fish. Milton.

3Sense 3. Yet more; indefinitely.

Upward of, more than; above; hence, about; nearly.

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