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Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.

To play the tutor toward; to treat with authority or severity. Addison.

ion, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange.

Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict. Coleridge.

; by surprise. He breaks at unawares upon our walks. Dryden. So we met In this old sleepy town an at unaware. R. Browning.

Rising and falling in waves toward the margin, as a leaf; waved.

of the owner, but to natural causes, such as the increase of population, the growth of a town in the vicinity, or the like. Some hold that this should belong to the nation.

Not well received; offensive; unpleasing; unacceptable; not favored. Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London. Clarendon. -- Un*gra"cious*ly, adv. -- Un*gra"cious*ness, n.

Not ruined or destroyed. [Obs.] "Unruinated towers." Bp. Hall.

To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects. Chaucer. Taverners until them told the same. Piers Plowman. He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until. Spenser.

Toward. [Obs.] Gower.

Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of Ant: down. But up or down, By center or eccentric, hard to tell. Milton.

The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns. [Obs.]

A line or track leading from the provinces toward the metropolis or a principal terminus; the track upon which up-trains run. See Up-train. [Eng.]

Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.

Toward the higher part of a street; as, to walk upstreet. G. W. Gable.

To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown. [Colloq. U. S.]

In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.