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Behind :: Behind (n.) The backside; the rump.

Defection :: Defection (n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding..

Backer :: Backer (n.) One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest..

Backster :: Backster (n.) A backer.

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.

Backset :: Backset (n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

Backstairs :: Backstairs (a.) Alt. of Backstai.

Foresight :: Foresight (n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction..

Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

Backsliding :: Backsliding (a.) Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.

Setback :: Setback (n.) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.

Backset :: Backset (v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring..

Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..

Backsettler :: Backsettler (n.) One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.

Swealed :: Swaying (n.) An injury caused by violent strains or by overloading; -- said of the backs of horses.

Finback :: Finback (n.) Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus..

Surbased :: Surbase (n.) A board or group of moldings running round a room on a level with the tops of the chair backs.

Backstitch :: Backstitch (v. i.) To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam..

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc..

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