Definition of back

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Back (n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage..

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Unbacked :: Unbacked (a.) Not supported or encouraged; not countenanced; unaided.
Return :: Return (n.) The sending back of a commission with the certificate of the commissioners.
Balance :: Balance (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners..
Title :: Title (n.) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book..
Bunch-backed :: Bunch-backed (a.) Having a bunch on the back; crooked.
Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Heterodactylous :: Heterodactylous (a.) Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons..
Filanders :: Filanders (n. pl.) A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm..
Ticktack :: Ticktack (n.) A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.
Recant :: Recant (v. t.) To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall..
Silhouette :: Silhouette (v. t.) To represent by a silhouette; to project upon a background, so as to be like a silhouette..
Camber :: Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback..
Backbiter :: Backbiter (n.) One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
Orthognathous :: Orthognathous (a.) Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic..
Regurgitate :: Regurgitate (v. i.) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bat (the ball) back over the net.
Polypteroidei :: Polypteroidei (n. pl.) A suborder of existing ganoid fishes having numerous fins along the back. The bichir, or Polypterus, is the type. See Illust. under Crossopterygian..
Card :: Card (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back..
Repercussion :: Repercussion (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger..
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