advs. [f. prec. + -WARD, -WARDS.] = prec. A.
1611. Cotgr., Enverser,… to turne vpside-downeward, or the inside outward. Ibid., s.vv., Reboursé, Revers.
1672. Blakeston, Lazarillo, II. xiii. T 4 b. She made the peeces of my Cloak to be stiched one to another, and for very hast they put them upside downwards.
1781. C. Johnston, Hist. J. Juniper, II. 131. On his arrival he found the town turned, as we say, upside downwards.
1826. Disraeli, V. Grey, VI. i. As he tossed, with a careless hand, the great horn upside downwards. Ibid. (1845), Sybil, II. ix. I think the world is turned upside downwards in these parts.
