Definition of back

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Back (n.) A support or resource in reserve.

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Inhibit :: Inhibit (v. t.) To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
Remit :: Remit (v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
Retrude :: Retrude (v. t.) To thrust back.
Settee :: Settee (n.) A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once..
Tumpline :: Tumpline (n.) A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back.
Brownback :: Brownback (n.) The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
Reimburse :: Reimburse (v. t.) To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war..
Stool :: Stool (n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses..
Revolution :: Revolution (n.) Return to a point before occupied, or to a point relatively the same; a rolling back; return; as, revolution in an ellipse or spiral..
Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To ward or fend off; to drive back or away; to repel.
Cross-tail :: Cross-tail (n.) A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
Scruff :: Scruff (n.) The nape of the neck; the loose outside skin, as of the back of the neck..
Regive :: Regive (v. t.) To give again; to give back.
Return :: Return (n.) The act of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis..
Card :: Card (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back..
Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled..
Ticktack :: Ticktack (n.) A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.
Backer :: Backer (n.) One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest..
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) The back side; as, the reverse of a drum or trench; the reverse of a medal or coin, that is, the side opposite to the obverse. See Obverse..
Leg :: Leg (n.) A bow, esp. in the phrase to make a leg; probably from drawing the leg backward in bowing..
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