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r compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

Toward God. 2 Cor. iii. 4.

Turf green with grass.

An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large.

In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.

Toward heaven.

Toward hell. Pope.

From this time forward; henceforth.

Hereafter. [Obs.] Thou shalt hereafterward . . . come. Chaucer.

Toward this place; hither. Marching hitherward in proud array. Shak.

Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.

Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country. Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.

Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward. Milton.

Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.

inner parts; internally. Let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly. Shak.

Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct. Sense can not arrive to the inwardness Of things. Dr. H. More.

See Inward.

Toward the land.

Somewhat late; backward. [Obs.] "Lateward lands." Holland.

Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship. -- n.