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Backward :: Backward (v. i.) To keep back; to hinder.

Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin..

Backing :: Backing (n.) The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward..

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

Amphipoda :: Amphipoda (n. pl.) A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca..

Since :: Since (adv.) In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago..

Depth :: Depth (n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops..

Ayenward :: Ayenward (adv.) Backward.

Lateward :: Lateward (a. & adv.) Somewhat late; backward.

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

Reserved :: Reserved (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank..

Opisthotonos :: Opisthotonos (n.) A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.

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

Retroflexed :: Retroflexed (a.) Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.

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..

Backwardly :: Backwardly (adv.) Perversely; ill.

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards..

Stane :: Standstill (n.) A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.

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