Definition of back

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Back (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action..

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Roxburgh :: Roxburgh (n.) A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut..
Recoil :: Recoil (v. t.) To draw or go back.
Zenick :: Zenick (n.) A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat..
Heterodactylous :: Heterodactylous (a.) Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons..
Reflective :: Reflective (a.) Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror..
Infinito :: Infinito (a.) Infinite; perpetual, as a canon whose end leads back to the beginning. See Infinite, a., 5..
Lazyback :: Lazyback (n.) A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash..
Anisodactylous :: Anisodactylous (a.) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds..
Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities..
Renvoy :: Renvoy (n.) A sending back.
Regurgitate :: Regurgitate (v. i.) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
Relate :: Relate (v. t.) To bring back; to restore.
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Revulsion :: Revulsion (n.) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
Retrorse :: Retrorse (a.) Bent backward or downward.
Dorsibranchiata :: dorsibranchiata (n. pl.) A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Chaetopoda.].
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..
Lap :: Lap (v. i.) To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power..
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