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Back :: Back (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen..

Retroact :: Retroact (v. i.) To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective..

Thar :: Thar (n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo..

Oscillate :: Oscillate (v. i.) To move backward and forward; to vibrate like a pendulum; to swing; to sway.

Swing :: Swing (v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other..

Fro :: Fro (adv.) From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To..

Retroaction :: Retroaction (n.) Action returned, or action backward..

Averse :: Averse (a.) Turned away or backward.

Recurvation :: Recurvation (n.) The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward..

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) By way of reflection; reflexively.

Fettered :: Fettered (a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking..

Behind :: Behind (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past.

Refracted :: Refracted (a.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf..

Wash :: Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc..

Retrogression :: Retrogression (n.) The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation..

Aversely :: Aversely (adv.) Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely..

Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.

Forwards :: Forwards (adv.) Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.

Reredemain :: Reredemain (n.) A backward stroke.

Plane :: Plane (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc..

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