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toward |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Toward \To"ward\, Towards \To"wards\, prep.[AS. ? impending, imminent, future, toward, ? towards. See {To}, and -{ward}, {wards}.] 1. In the direction of to He set his face toward the wilderness. --Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards" the pebbled shore. --Shak. 2. With direction to in a moral sense with respect or reference to regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil toward his brother. --Deut. xxviii. 54. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men. --Acts xxiv. 16. 3. Tending to in the direction of in behalf of This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble. --Clarendom. 4. Near about approaching to I am toward nine years older since I left you --Swift. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Toward \To"ward\, Towards \To"wards\ adv Near at hand; in state of preparation. Do you hear sught, sir, of a battle toward ? --Shak. We have a trifling foolish banquet Towards. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Toward \To"ward\, a. [AS. ?. See {Toward}, prep.] 1. Approaching; coming near ``His toward peril.'' --Spenser. 2. Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as a toward youth. 3. Ready to act forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. --Shak.
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