Emily Dickinson Lexicon

UP'WARD, adv.

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