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English Dictionary: outwards by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
outwards
adv
  1. toward the outside; "move the needle further outward!"
    Synonym(s): outward, outwards
    Antonym(s): inward, inwards
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outward \Out"ward\, Outwards \Out"wards\, adv. [AS. [?]teweard.
      See {Out}, and {-ward}, {-wards}.]
      From the interior part; in a direction from the interior
      toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away;
      as, a ship bound outward.
  
               The wrong side may be turned outward.      --Shak.
  
               Light falling on them is not reflected outwards. --Sir
                                                                              I. Newton.
  
      {Outward bound}, bound in an outward direction or to foreign
            parts; -- said especially of vessels, and opposed to
            {homeward bound}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Outwards \Out"wards\, adv.
      See {Outward}, adv.
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