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Cowardice.

Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless. The cowardly rascals that ran from the battle. Shak.

Cowardice. [Obs.] Shak.

Toward death.

Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous. With downward force That drove the sand along he took his way. Dryden.

lace to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards. "Looking downwards." Pope. Their heads they downward bent. Drayton.

Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.

Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.

To make froward, perverse, or ungovernable. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

g of fires, or to order what precautions shall be taken against fires; -- called also fireward.

The van; the front. [Obs.] My foreward shall be drawn out all in length, Consisting equally of horse and foot. Shak.

Forward. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

An agreement; a covenant; a promise. [Obs.] Tell us a tale anon, as forward is. Chaucer.

Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.

One who forwards or promotes; a promoter. Udall.

The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.

Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.

The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel.

Same as Forward.

A way from; -- the contrary of toward. [Obs.] Towards or fromwards the zenith. Cheyne.