UP'WARDS, adverb

1. Toward a higher place; opposed to downward.

Upward I lift my eye.

2. Toward heaven and God.

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

3. With respect to the higher part.

Upward man, downward fish.

4. More than, indefinitely. upwards of ten years have elapsed; upwards of a hundred men were present.

5. Toward the source. Trace the stream upwards

And trace the muses upwards to their spring.