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Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards..

#NAME? :: -wards (v. i.) Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc..

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin..

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

Opisthotonos :: Opisthotonos (n.) A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.

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..

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

Shuttle :: Shuttle (v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle..

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

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

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

Arrear :: Arrear (adv.) To or in the rear; behind; backwards.

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward..

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..

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.) By way of reflection; reflexively.

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