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Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb..

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

Return :: Return (v. t.) To report, or bring back and make known..

Regorge :: Regorge (v. t.) To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.

Retrograde :: Retrograde (v. i.) To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet..

Curb :: Curb (n.) A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness..

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) Backgammon.

Backwardness :: Backwardness (n.) The state of being backward.

Recidivate :: Recidivate (v. i.) To backslide; to fall again.

Lapwing :: Lapwing (n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the plover's eggs of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea..

Recursant :: Recursant (a.) Displayed with the back toward the spectator; -- said especially of an eagle.

Twister :: Twister (n.) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback..

Humpbacked :: Humpbacked (a.) Having a humped back.

Chasuble :: Chasuble (n.) The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a narrower front piece, the two connected over the shoulders only. The back has usually a large cross, the front an upright bar or pillar, designed to be emblematical of Christ's sufferings. In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle..

Point :: Point (n.) One of the spaces on a backgammon board.

Grayback :: Grayback (n.) The body louse.

Back :: Back (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.

Behind :: Behind (n.) The backside; the rump.

Nuchal :: Nuchal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles..

Tergum :: Tergum (n.) The back of an animal.

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