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

Back :: Back (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements..

Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels..

Warble :: Warble (n.) A small tumor produced by the larvae of the gadfly in the backs of horses, cattle, etc. Called also warblet, warbeetle, warnles..

Bareback :: Bareback (adv.) On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback..

Rebound :: Rebound (v. i.) To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo..

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

Restore :: Restore (v. t.) To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover..

Revenue :: Revenue (n.) That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income..

Pygal :: Pygal (a.) Situated in the region of the rump, or posterior end of the backbone; -- applied especially to the posterior median plates in the carapace of chelonians..

Rebut :: Rebut (v. t.) To drive or beat back; to repulse.

Half-bound :: Half-bound (n.) Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book..

Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise..

Barouche :: Barouche (n.) A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat..

Reversible :: Reversible (a.) Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence..

Burr :: Burr (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr..

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) Backgammon.

Reecho :: Reecho (v. i.) To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant..

Blencher :: Blencher (n.) One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back..

Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep..

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