frowards

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frowards

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of froward (away from)
    • 1715, Edward Barlow, Meteorological Essays (page 23)
      [] and their Motion having acquir'd its utmost Celerity by their Descent cannot stop in their Congress, but must proceed to remount one joint Undulation, at least to an equal Height with those Two which rais'd it frowards the Poles; as being the Counterpoise of their Libration.
    • 1886, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ‎William Michael Rossetti, Translations. Prose - notices of fine art (page 93)
      [] a pilgrim who goeth towards or frowards the House of St. James.