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

Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn..

Chassis :: Chassis (n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.].

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

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

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

Tennis :: Tennis (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis..

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

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

Behindhand :: Behindhand (adv. & a.) In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work..

Revolute :: Revolute (a.) Rolled backward or downward.

Lateward :: Lateward (a. & adv.) Somewhat late; backward.

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

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

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

Aversely :: Aversely (adv.) Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely..

Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion..

Regardant :: Regardant (v. t.) Looking behind; looking backward watchfully.

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

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..

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