Upward of, or Upwards of, more than; above.

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

Upward
(Up"ward), a. [AS. upweard. See Up, and -ward.] Directed toward a higher place; as, with upward eye; with upward course.

Upward
(Up"ward), n. The upper part; the top. [Obs.]

From the extremest upward of thy head.
Shak.

Upwhirl
(Up*whirl") v. t. & i. To rise upward in a whirl; to raise upward with a whirling motion.

Upwind
(Up*wind") v. t. To wind up. Spenser.

Upwreath
(Up*wreath") v. i. To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.

Upyat
(Up*yat") obs. imp. of Upgive. Chaucer.

Ur
(Ur Ure), n. (Zoöl.) The urus.

Urachus
(||U"ra*chus) n. [NL., fr. Gr. urine + to hold.] (Anat.) A cord or band of fibrous tissue extending from the bladder to the umbilicus.

Uræmia
(||U*ræ"mi*a) n. [NL., fr. Gr. urine + blood.] (Med.) Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease.

Uræmic
(U*ræ"mic) a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to uræmia; as, uræmic convulsions.

Uræum
(||U*ræ"um) n. [NL., from Gr. fr. of the tail; cf. L. uraeus, adj.] (Zoöl.) The posterior half of an animal.

Ural
(U"ral) a. Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia.

Ural-Altaic
(U"ral-Al*ta"ic) a. Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural-Altaic, or Turanian, languages.

Urali
(U"ra*li) n. [See Wourali.] See Curare.

Uralian
(U*ra"li*an U*ral"ic) a. Of or relating to the Ural Mountains.

Uralite
(U"ral*ite) n. [So called because first observed in the Ural Mountains.] (Min.) Amphibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.

Uralitization
(U`ral*i`ti*za"tion) n. (Geol.) The change of pyroxene to amphibole by paramorphism.

Uramil
(U*ram"il) n. (Chem.) Murexan.

Uranate
(U"ra*nate) n. (Chem.) A salt of uranic acid.

Urania
(U*ra"ni*a) n. [L., from Gr. i. e., the Heavenly, fr. heavenly, fr. heaven.]

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.


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