Back () The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.

Back () A garment for the back; hence, clothing.

Back () Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.

Back () Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.

Back () Moving or operating backward; as, back action.

Backed () of Back

Backing () of Back

Back () To get upon the back of; to mount.

Back () To place or seat upon the back.

Back () To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.

Back () To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.

Back () To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.

Back () To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.

Back () To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.

Back () To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.

Back () To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.

Back () To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.

Back () To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.

Back () In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.

Back () To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.

Back () To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.

Back () (Of time) In times past; ago.

Back () Away from contact; by reverse movement.

Back () In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.

Back () In a state of restraint or hindrance.

Back () In return, repayment, or requital.

Back () In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.

Back () In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.

Backarack () See Bacharach.

Backare () Same as Baccare.

Backband () The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

Backbite () To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

Backbite () To censure or revile the absent.

Backbiter () One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Backbiting () Secret slander; detraction.

Backboard () A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;

Backboard () A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon.

Backboard () A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.

Backboard () A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.

Backboard () A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

Backbond () An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.

Backbone () The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

Backbone () Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone.

Backbone () Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.

Backboned () Vertebrate.

Backcast () Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.

Back door () A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.

Backdoor () Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues.

Backdown () A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.

Backed () Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.

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