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

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted..

Backward :: Backward (n.) The state behind or past.

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

Revolute :: Revolute (a.) Rolled backward or downward.

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..

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

Backward :: Backward (a.) Already past or gone; bygone.

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..

Behindhand :: Behindhand (adv. & a.) In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work..

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

Beard :: Beard (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out..

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..

Regardant :: Regardant (v. t.) Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant..

Batter :: Batter (v. i.) To slope gently backward.

Seesaw :: Seesaw (v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward..

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

Behind :: Behind (adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind..

Palindrome :: Palindrome (n.) A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel..

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

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