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Behind :: Behind (adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind..

Backward :: Backward (a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.

Reredemain :: Reredemain (n.) A backward stroke.

Ayenward :: Ayenward (adv.) Backward.

Recurvation :: Recurvation (n.) The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward..

Retromingent :: Retromingent (n.) An animal that discharges its urine backward.

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward..

Retrograde :: Retrograde (a.) Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive..

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) On the back, or with the back downward..

Caudad :: Caudad (adv.) Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.

Retrorse :: Retrorse (a.) Bent backward or downward.

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

Ana- :: Ana- () A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew..

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

Amphipoda :: Amphipoda (n. pl.) A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca..

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..

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..

Arear :: Arear (adv.) Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.

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

Regardant :: Regardant (v. t.) Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant..

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