obs. varr. (with shortened vowel) of OUTWARD adv.

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a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 12. Vpon þe aposteme, forsoþe, vtward be putte a gode emplastre.

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1428.  in Surtees Misc. (1888), 9. For other occupacions that he had to doo utteward.

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