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Cape :: Cape (n.) A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak..

Alight :: Alight (v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount..

Broken-backed :: Broken-backed (a.) Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship.

Rebuff :: Rebuff (n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance..

Gall :: Gall (v. t.) To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable..

Resiliency :: Resiliency (n.) The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound..

Redfish :: Redfish (n.) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also nerka. See Blueback (b).

Reflective :: Reflective (a.) Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror..

Round :: Round (adv.) By or in a circuit; by a course longer than the direct course; back to the starting point.

Tergant :: Tergant (a.) Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant..

Revoke :: Revoke (v. t.) To hold back; to repress; to restrain.

Lash :: Lash (n.) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back..

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

Joust :: Joust (v. i.) A tilting match; a mock combat on horseback between two knights in the lists or inclosed field.

Back :: Back (adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back..

Recoil :: Recoil (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood..

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.

Regrant :: Regrant (n.) The act of granting back to a former proprietor.

Backpiece :: Backpiece (n.) Alt. of Backplat.

Until :: Until (prep.) To; up to; till; before; -- used of time; as, he staid until evening; he will not come back until the end of the month..

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