Definition of "starward"

starward

adverb
not comparable
1. Toward the stars.
adjective
not comparable
1. Leading or pointing toward the stars.
  Quotations
  They were still indoors in the old-fashioned way, but the view. . They were on the starward side of the arc.
  1992, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep, 1st edition, New York: Tor, page 212