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Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle..

Mooruk :: Mooruk (n.) A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue..

Notaeum :: Notaeum (n.) The back or upper surface, as of a bird..

Barb :: Barb (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else..

Trunkback :: Trunkback (n.) The leatherback.

Repass :: Repass (v. i.) To pass or go back; to move back; as, troops passing and repassing before our eyes..

Breeching :: Breeching (n.) That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle..

Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. i.) To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Reciprocornous :: Reciprocornous (a.) Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram..

Aback :: Aback (adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.

Ebb :: Ebb (v. t.) To cause to flow back.

Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held..

Arear :: Arear (adv.) Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.

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

Reimport :: Reimport (v. t.) To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back.

Stiffened :: Stiff-backed (a.) Obstinate.

Rump :: Rump (n.) The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks..

Blanch :: Blanch (v. t.) To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer..

Backwoodsman :: Backwoodsman (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States..

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