Definition of behind

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Behind (adv.) At the back part; in the rear.

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Frontlet :: Frontlet (n.) The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles..
Countermure :: Countermure (n.) A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure..
Behind :: Behind (adv.) At the back part; in the rear.
Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
Hind :: Hind (a.) In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession..
Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion..
Remiss :: Remiss (a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow..
Slow :: Slow (superl.) Behind in time; indicating a time earlier than the true time; as, the clock or watch is slow..
Abdominales :: Abdominales (n. pl.) A group including the greater part of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals..
Backward :: Backward (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season..
Boost :: Boost (n.) A push from behind, as to one who is endeavoring to climb; help..
Postpalatine :: Postpalatine (a.) Situated behind the palate, or behind the palatine bones..
Bushfighting :: Bushfighting (n.) Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets..
Catcher :: Catcher (n.) The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball.
Rear :: Rear (n.) The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order; -- opposed to front..
Glut :: Glut (n.) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
Retrocopulant :: Retrocopulant (a.) Copulating backward, or from behind..
Postscenium :: Postscenium (n.) The part of a theater behind the scenes; the back part of the stage of a theater.
Retrochoir :: Retrochoir (n.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar..
Reredos :: Reredos (n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.
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