adv. (a.) [f. TOWN sb. + -WARD.] Towards or in the direction of the town. (Originally to the townward.)

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1434.  Indenture Fotheringhey, in Dugdale, Monast. (1846), VI. 1414/2. A dore yn the west side to the town-ward.

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1633.  T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., II. xii. (1821), 362. The Irish … beat the Spaniards from their ground to the Towneward.

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1808.  Scott, Marm., III. xxxi. He heard … The foot-tramp of a flying steed, Come town-ward rushing on.

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1846.  Longf., in Life (1891), II. 52. A beautiful pile of granite … looking townward and seaward.

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  b.  adj. Going or directed toward the town.

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1806.  J. Grahame, Birds Scot., 35. Follow his townward steps.

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1831.  Newbern (NC) Sentinel, 24 Aug., 4/1.

        Than I, when near the twilight,
  Desire’s long-check’d but swelling tide
Townward impels my [a musquito’] dim flight,
  Like buring lover for his bride.

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1833.  L. Ritchie, Wand. by Loire, 184. Ditches … still remain on the townward side.

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1864.  Longf., in Life (1891), III. 34. Walking … along the accustomed townward walk,… I met the East Wind.

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1893.  Chicago Advance, 27 July. Evidence of the townward drift of the people.

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  c.  Comb.

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1870.  Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 288. In a fair-hung townward-looking bower.

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