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Regardant :: Regardant (v. t.) Looking behind; looking backward watchfully.

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

Reclinant :: Reclinant (a.) Bending or leaning backward.

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

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

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

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

Shuttle :: Shuttle (v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle..

Retroversion :: Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus..

Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Laggard :: Laggard (a.) Slow; sluggish; backward.

Retromingent :: Retromingent (n.) An animal that discharges its urine backward.

Retrogression :: Retrogression (n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism..

Aback :: Aback (adv.) Toward the back or rear; backward.

Backward :: Backward (a.) Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state..

Rock :: Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter..

Backwardation :: Backwardation (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango..

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

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

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