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

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

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

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

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

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

Backsheesh :: Backsheesh (n.) Alt. of Backshis.

Backshish :: Backshish (n.) In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a tip..

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

Backsight :: Backsight (n.) 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 :: Backslid (imp.) of Backslid.

Backslid :: Backslid () of Backslid.

Backslidden :: Backslidden (p. p.) of Backslid.

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

Backslider :: Backslider (n.) One who backslides.

Backsliding :: Backsliding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Backslid.

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

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

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

Backstair :: Backstair (a.) Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.

Backstairs :: Backstairs (a.) Alt. of Backstai.

Backstay :: Backstay (n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast..

Backstay :: Backstay (n.) A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.

Backster :: Backster (n.) A backer.

Backstitch :: Backstitch (n.) A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end..

Backstitch :: Backstitch (v. i.) To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam..

Backstress :: Backstress (n.) A female baker.

Backsword :: Backsword (n.) A sword with one sharp edge.

Backsword :: Backsword (n.) In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick..

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