Definition of backward

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

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Recurvation :: Recurvation (n.) The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward..
Batter :: Batter (v. i.) To slope gently backward.
Retrogressive :: Retrogressive (a.) Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.
Anisodactylous :: Anisodactylous (a.) Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds..
Beard :: Beard (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out..
Seesaw :: Seesaw (v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
Palindrome :: Palindrome (n.) A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel..
Backward :: Backward (a.) Already past or gone; bygone.
Restem :: Restem (v. t.) To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course..
Aback :: Aback (adv.) Toward the back or rear; backward.
Aback :: Aback (adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.
Stane :: Standstill (n.) A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
Metacromion :: Metacromion (n.) A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.
Thar :: Thar (n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo..
Backwardness :: Backwardness (n.) The state of being backward.
Retrogradation :: Retrogradation (n.) The act of retrograding, or moving backward..
Retroversion :: Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus..
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..
Reciprocornous :: Reciprocornous (a.) Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram..
Retrograde :: Retrograde (v. i.) To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet..
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