lightwardsadv.
/ˈlʌɪtwədz/, U.S. /ˈlaɪtwərdz/ Towards the light.
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1862 ‘L. Scott’ Three Squires Lindenhurst xxxii, in Ladies' Treasury Nov. 324/1 You are like a man with only one eye, and who always turns the blind eye lightwards.
1891 ‘L. Keith’ Lost Illusion II. xix. 219 The geraniums turned lightwards at the window.
2003 J. Scott Warra Warra 37 She hurried back through the apple orchard, the unpruned branches rearing lightwards.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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adv.1862- cry one's heart out
- cry oneself blind
- cry oneself sick
- cry oneself to sleep
- cry or shout the kirn
- cry out
- cry out of
- cry over spilled milk
- cry over spilt milk
- cry over spilt water
- cry peccavi
- cry peccavimus
- cry poor-mouth
- cry poormouth
- cry quarter
- cry quit
- cry quit with a person
- cry quits
- cry quittance
- cry roast
- cry roast meat
- cry scaldings
- cry shame on, upon, of
- cry shares
- cry smack