[f. as prec.] Towards or in the front; forward. Also with to.
1827. Hood, Mids. Fairies, xlvi. Then next a merry Woodsman, clad in green, Stept vanward from his mates.
1838. J. P. Kennedy, Rob of the Bowl, ii. Vanward the same kind of enclosures … shut in a grassy court.
1888. Lowell, Heartsease & Rue, 56. Whose brave example still to vanward shines.
