Definition of back

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Back (adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism..

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Backwater :: Backwater (n.) Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer..
Backwardly :: Backwardly (adv.) Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.
Indorse :: Indorse (v. t.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a /ote, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.)..
Backing :: Backing (n.) The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover..
Blueback :: Blueback (n.) A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.
Repulse :: Repulse (n.) The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back..
Retrovert :: Retrovert (v. t.) To turn back.
Reserved :: Reserved (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank..
Recurvate :: Recurvate (v. t.) To bend or curve back; to recurve.
Review :: Review (n.) To view or see again; to look back on.
Brush :: Brush (n.) An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc..
Hemibranchi :: Hemibranchi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia..
Regardant :: Regardant (v. t.) Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant..
Reverberate :: Reverberate (v. t.) To send or force back; to repel from side to side; as, flame is reverberated in a furnace..
Regurgitate :: Regurgitate (v. i.) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like..
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Anagram :: Anagram (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law..
Refund :: Refund (v. t.) To pour back.
Bedchair :: Bedchair (n.) A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed..
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