a. and adv. [See -WARD.] In the direction of the country. (Orig. with to.)
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 2176. And to his cuntreward [v.r. contree warde, contreward, countrey warde] he sayleth swythe.
1548. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke, 30 b. To gather and laie up treasures to that same countreyward.
1837. Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1851), II. iv. 74. To … strain her dimmed eyesight seaward and countryward.
