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Barb :: Barb (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else..

Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.

Postic :: Postic (a.) Backward.

Dunce :: Dunce (n.) One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.

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..

Aback :: Aback (adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.

Retroversion :: Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus..

Backwardness :: Backwardness (n.) The state of being backward.

Backhanded :: Backhanded (a.) With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow..

Refracted :: Refracted (a.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf..

Backwardly :: Backwardly (adv.) Perversely; ill.

Anagram :: Anagram (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law..

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) Toward, or in, past time or events; ago..

Orthognathous :: Orthognathous (a.) Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic..

Forwards :: Forwards (adv.) Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.

Irreversible :: Irreversible (a.) Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine..

Reserve :: Reserve (n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses..

Backwardly :: Backwardly (adv.) Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

Fro :: Fro (adv.) From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To..

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