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Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..

Stayed :: Stay (n.) A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. See Illust. of Ship..

Backstress :: Backstress (n.) A female baker.

Backset :: Backset (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

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

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide..

Kaleege :: Kaleege (n.) One of several species of large, crested, Asiatic pheasants, belonging to the genus Euplocamus, and allied to the firebacks..

Stool :: Stool (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays..

Swealed :: Swaying (n.) An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.

Backstair :: Backstair (a.) Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.

Bukshish :: Bukshish (n.) See Backsheesh.

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also. the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces..

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

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc..

Backslid :: Backslid (imp.) of Backslid.

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back..

Recidivation :: Recidivation (n.) A falling back; a backsliding.

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