Backer () One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

Backfall () A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

Backfriend () A secret enemy.

Backgammon () A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a \"board\" marked off into twenty-four spaces called \"points\". Each player has fifteen pieces, or \"men\", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.

Backgammon () In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first \"table\".

Background () Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.

Background () The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.

Background () Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.

Background () A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.

Backhand () A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

Backhand () Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

Backhand () Backhanded; indirect; oblique.

Backhanded () With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.

Backhanded () Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment.

Backhanded () Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded letters.

Backhandedness () State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.

Backhander () A backhanded blow.

Backhouse () A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

Backing () The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.

Backing () That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.

Backing () Support or aid given to a person or cause.

Backing () The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.

Backjoint () A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

Backlash () The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

Backless () Without a back.

Backlog () A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth.

Backpiece () Alt. of Backplate

Backplate () A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

Backrack () Alt. of Backrag

Backrag () See Bacharach.

Backs () Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

Backsaw () A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

Backset () A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

Backset () Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.

Backset () To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

Backsettler () One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.

Backsheesh () Alt. of Backshish

Backshish () In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a \"tip\".

Backside () The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

Backsight () The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.

Backslid () of Backslide

Backslidden () of Backslide

Backslid () of Backslide

Backsliding () of Backslide

Backslide () To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

Backslider () One who backslides.

Backsliding () Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.

Backsliding () The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.

Backstaff () An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.

Back stairs () Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.

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