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

Retromingent :: Retromingent (a.) Organized so as to discharge the urine backward.

Back :: Back (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back..

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

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..

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..

Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn..

Tennis :: Tennis (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis..

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

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..

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

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..

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward..

Reciprocate :: Reciprocate (v. i.) To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

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..

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

Supine :: Supine (a.) Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined..

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

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method..

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