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Deep :: Deep (superl.) Extending far back from the front or outer part; of great horizontal dimension (measured backward from the front or nearer part, mouth, etc.); as, a deep cave or recess or wound; a gallery ten seats deep; a company of soldiers six files deep..

Breechblock :: Breechblock (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired..

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

Metacromion :: Metacromion (n.) A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.

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..

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

Seesaw :: Seesaw (v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward..

Retroact :: Retroact (v. i.) To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective..

Backward :: Backward (adv.) Alt. of Backward.

Particle :: Particle (n.) A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely..

Dentated :: Dentated (a.) Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf..

Supine :: Supine (a.) Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined..

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..

Reflexive :: Reflexive (a.) Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service..

Reciprocate :: Reciprocate (v. i.) To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

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

Back :: Back (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action..

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

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

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