earthwardsn.adv.

1599 E. Ford Parismenos viii. sig. I^v She had not long stayed in that place, but she beheld an aged man, whose yeares made him stoupe to the earthwards, carying a fewe drie stickes vnder his arme.

1754 J. Hill Urania at Spots The satellite..will, by continuing the same motion of revolution, by degrees, carry more and more of the spotted hemisphere from the earthwards.

1853 C. Boner Chamois Hunting in Mountains of Bavaria 29 You knock your shins almost to pieces against them, or treading on slippery surface of the humid branches, go down the earthwards with your nose as pioneer.

1650 in J. W. Draper Cent. Broadside Elegies (1928) 63 Whoever saw a loaded ear of Corn Nor of Earth-wards tend?

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo xi, in Wks. (1721) III. 315 But num'rous Angels earthwards flew to see, those living Pictures of the Deity.

1845 J. C. Mangan Anthologia Germanica I. 48 The rain..dashes earthwards in floods, Upswelling the deluging fountains.

1896 Mind 5 460 But elsewhere, the string-course is undercut or ‘throated’, so as to shed rain and cause it to drop earthwards instead of streaming down the walls.

1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 235/1 So he let fly at the nearer of them, and saw her tumble in the air, then pinwheel earthwards.

2000 Stuff Dec. 137/2 Wobble a little bit in one direction, and suddenly the whole damn thing is yawning over and heading earthwards.