usward

English

Alternative forms

• uswards

Etymology

From Middle English us-ward; equivalent to us +‎ -ward.

Adverb

usward (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Toward us.
   • 1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife‎^[1]:

     Then I, whose eyes were keen, saw, blown usward from Margny, a cloud of flying dust, that in Scotland we call stour.

   • 1904, William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs‎^[2]:

     But the Gods have sent him to usward to work us measureless good: It is even Sigurd the Volsung, the best man ever born, The man that the Gods withstand not, my friend, and my brother sworn."