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Singlestick :: Singlestick (n.) The game played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling..

Singlestick :: Singlestick (n.) In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword..

Backstay :: Backstay (n.) A rope or strap used to prevent excessive forward motion.

Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.

Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

Backsword :: Backsword (n.) A sword with one sharp edge.

Backsliding :: Backsliding (n.) The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.

Bukshish :: Bukshish (n.) See Backsheesh.

Backslider :: Backslider (n.) One who backslides.

Backstitch :: Backstitch (n.) A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end..

Backstay :: Backstay (n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast..

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

Backsettler :: Backsettler (n.) One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.

Backsliding :: Backsliding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Backslid.

Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

Backstairs :: Backstairs (a.) Alt. of Backstai.

Backstaff :: Backstaff (n.) An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed..

Finback :: Finback (n.) Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus..

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..

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..

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