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Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses..

Placard :: Placard (n.) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate.

Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord..

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

Singlestick :: Singlestick (n.) In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword..

Humpback :: Humpback (n.) Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are Megaptera longimana of Europe, and M. osphyia of America; that of the California coasts is M. versabilis..

Opisthography :: Opisthography (n.) A writing upon the back of anything, as upon the back of a leaf or sheet already written upon on one side..

Hidebound :: Hidebound (a.) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.

Roxburgh :: Roxburgh (n.) A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut..

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

Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To pull or tear off, as a covering; to remove; to wrest away; as, to strip the skin from a beast; to strip the bark from a tree; to strip the clothes from a man's back; to strip away all disguisses..

Ridgebone :: Ridgebone (n.) The backbone.

Recarriage :: Recarriage (n.) Act of carrying back.

Redeliver :: Redeliver (v. t.) To deliver or give back; to return.

Regrede :: Regrede (v. i.) To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit..

Spinebill :: Spineback (n.) A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins..

Revert :: Revert (v. i.) To return; to come back.

Cue :: Cue (n.) The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue..

Grayback :: Grayback (n.) The California gray whale.

Peele :: Peele (n.) A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc..

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