Definition of toward

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Toward (adv.) Alt. of Toward.

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Northerly :: Northerly (a.) Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern..
Affluence :: Affluence (n.) A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx.
Leaning :: Leaning (n.) The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism..
Foreshorten :: Foreshorten (v. t.) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective..
Dextrally :: Dextrally (adv.) Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally..
Leftward :: Leftward (adv.) Toward or on the left side.
Southeast :: Southeast (a.) Of or pertaining to the southeast; proceeding toward, or coming from, the southeast; as, a southeast course; a southeast wind..
Downwards :: Downwards (adv.) From a higher to a lower condition; toward misery, humility, disgrace, or ruin..
Humanitarian :: Humanitarian (a.) Content with right affections and actions toward man; ethical, as distinguished from religious; believing in the perfectibility of man's nature without supernatural aid..
Incline :: Incline (v. i.) To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south..
Face :: Face (v. t.) To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park..
Thermotropism :: Thermotropism (n.) The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants..
Whitherward :: Whitherward (adv.) In what direction; toward what or which place.
West :: West (n.) A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west..
Italic :: Italic (a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500..
Attain :: Attain (v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach..
For :: For (prep.) Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to..
Avoset :: Avoset (n.) A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana..
Antecedence :: Antecedence (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
Decline :: Decline (v. i.) A falling off; a tendency to a worse state; diminution or decay; deterioration; also, the period when a thing is tending toward extinction or a less perfect state; as, the decline of life; the decline of strength; the decline of virtue and religion..
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