Definition of back

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Back (adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it..

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Ply :: Ply (v. i.) To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer plies between certain ports..
Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To draw back toghtly, as a rein..
Supine :: Supine (a.) Lying on the back, or with the face upward; -- opposed to prone..
Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels..
Scrode :: Scrode (n.) A young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed..
Redback :: Redback (n.) The dunlin.
Silverback :: Silverback (n.) The knot.
Irreversible :: Irreversible (a.) Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine..
Background :: Background (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings..
Chape :: Chape (n.) The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap..
Backarack :: Backarack (n.) See Bacharach.
Lord :: Lord (n.) A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.
Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..
Postic :: Postic (a.) Backward.
Recall :: Recall (n.) A calling back; a revocation.
Withhold :: Withhold (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.
Back :: Back (n.) The keel and keelson of a ship.
Fore :: Fore (adv.) In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc..
Laggard :: Laggard (a.) Slow; sluggish; backward.
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