adv. Obs. For forms see AWAY. [f. AWAY + -WARD.] Cf. the aphetic WAYWARD.
1. Turned away, or in the other direction.
c. 1205. Lay., 8873. A-weiward he halde [1250 his heued heold] & nolde hit iheren.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XVI. 584. The Erll with the schirreff met he Awayward with thar gret menȝe.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Maunc. T., 158. This Phebus gan away-ward for to wryen.
c. 1407. W. Thorpe’s Exam., in Arb., Garner, VI. 109. The Archbishop … turned him away-ward, hither and thither.
1577. Dee, Relat. Spir., I. (1659), 418. Holding his face away-ward.
b. quasi-adj. Tured away, averted; wayward.
c. 1315. Shoreham, 2. We beth al awey-ward, That scholde her by-leve.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 3985. It is a botless bale … to willne after a wif þat is a waywarde euere.
1387. Trevisa, Higden, II. 25. Ȝif þe face is a weyward from þe water.
2. Of motion: Away.
c. 1205. Lay., 23169. Far þe awæiward [1250 aweiward].
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 959. Faste a-wayward gunne þay flen.
c. 1530. More, De quat. Nouiss., Wks. 78/1. Our life walketh awai ward, while our death draweth toward.
