Definition of backs

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Backs (n. pl.) Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides..

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Hemibranchi :: Hemibranchi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having an incomplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia..
Backstay :: Backstay (n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast..
Stool :: Stool (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays..
Backsliding :: Backsliding (a.) Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.
Backslide :: Backslide (v. i.) To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
Backsaw :: Backsaw (n.) A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.
Backstair :: Backstair (a.) Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.
Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.
Backslid :: Backslid () of Backslid.
Swealed :: Swaying (n.) An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.
Backset :: Backset (n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water..
Backslider :: Backslider (n.) One who backslides.
Behind :: Behind (n.) The backside; the rump.
Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Backside :: Backside (n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal..
Backstitch :: Backstitch (v. i.) To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam..
Relapse :: Relapse (v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back..
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
Backset :: Backset (v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring..
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